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What's What Behind News in Capital: Consumers’ Board Gives Gen. Johnson His Only Laughs. PLEADS NOT GULTY I DEATH OF FOUR Bcrm Attorney Ordered Held Without Bond in Poison Murders. By the Assoclated Press. i BENTON, Ark. August 17.—Mark H.| Shank, 41-year-old Akron, Ohlo, attor- ney, entered a formal plea of not guilty | 1o the poison murders of Alvin la:flllev.! Somize o e "Deace 3. P Carter here | slon, that it was caused by @ loday. He will be returned to Hot|petty quarrel. There was much more rings for sate keeping, | behind it than that. ap}le gwnlved melh—r?ina’ry hearing and | The truth is Ogburn's parting shot was ordered held without bond for the 88ainst the Consumers’ Advisory Board jury, which meets September 4. | lodged deep in & vital spot. - ¥ he ‘information filed by Prosecuting | That board has been & private joke ‘Attorney Millar Halbert included the | @mong the higher-ups from the start. urders of all four persons, Cclley, his| The only good laughs Gen. John Wife, Ethel, and the sons, Clement, 11.! has had in the past siz weeks came d Claren, 7. Separate indictments in | when some one mentioned that organ- ?lm may be returned by the grand jury, | ization. albert said. H ‘Shank was brought here under heavy | o, 1f, the, counsels have done anyiting guard from Hot Springs. A guard stood | even from Johnson. gutside the building where the justice’s| “'gin %% FQreT oy news men have affice l; locaze% I:’!d prevented all spec- paey trying to get a statement of the tators from entCring. s usual calm cur- | D0Ard’s purposes and accomplishments_- tng the ride from Hot g rmg;‘ Sn something strong showing action. Each - Mg g o B e Wil was | Week they are told that perhaps next nursing cuts and bruises which he re- | % 2 cefved in his flight through the woods and when he leaped from a moving automobile with Colley dead at the wheel. Shank has not employed an at- torney. | QUIZ IN POISONING ORDERED BY PAUL MALLON. HE heavy thinkers around the N. R. A. are trying to laugh off the dramatic exit of Prof. Ogburn. They want to create the impres- SrTmamren | = Lawyer Said to Have Confessed Killings| to Forestall Blackmail Threats. By the Associated Press. HOT SPRINGS, Ark. August 17— Mark H. Shank, 41-year-old Akron, Ohio, lawyer, who purportedly confessed he poisoned Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Colley and thelr two children to forestall threats of blackmail and prosecution‘ over stolen legal papers, was ordered to Benton today for preliminary hearing. 3 bad for consym Herbert Akers, chief of Hot Springs | €rs’ counsels around the N. R. A. The detectives, sald Shank will be returned | DIE 10D has been to lasso industry and here for safe keeping after the hearing. | time for haggling about specific prices. Colley was an investigator for Shank, | That will come later when the codes | k they may be able to get something | g that line. Nothing has been forthcoming yet. That is not due to the inefficiency of {the counsels. Their conscientiousness and sincerity cannot be questioned. Possibly no other persons could have done more. Bad Time for Consumers. But ttmes have been bad for consum- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURS DAY, A T GUST 17, 1933. STERLING ACCEPTS | [ rekes vore ] |PRIGPLESFOROL CUBAN POST HERE Appointment Awaits Formal- ity of Expected U. S. Approval. By the Associated Press. Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling, former Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, today accepted the offer of President Carlos Eewn(:e.spm to be Ambassador to Wash- gton. Formal announcement of the appoint- ment has not been made, penafi.‘.’{’ the formalities of asking the State De- partment for approval which is ex- pected in high official circles. “nl;. Bb:’:lzllx’l( htl been in Washing' ‘n Tre: ng two 'ars AL~ bassador to Mexico. AT Within the last two years he acted son | 88 mediator between President Machado and the opposition forces in Cuba in & futile effort to solve Cuba's political controversy. Former Ambassador Ferrara represented Machado and the two held long conversations at the Cuban em- bassy here. - Toured Latin America. One of Marquez Sterling’s chief dis- tinctions in Washington was his service on the Commission of Neutrals, which succeeded in 1928 in renewing diplomatic relations between Bolivia and Paraguay after hostilities had broken out in the Chaco. Marquez Sterling has been his coun- try’s envoy in Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Mexico. He scored a diplomatic triumph in 1928, when, as special Cu- ban Ambassador at Large, he toured Latin America, inviting the republics of the Western hemisphere to the sixth Pan-American Conference, held at Ha- vana in December of that year. For the first time that year every one of the 21 Pan-American republics was represented at a Pan-American Con- ference. Founded Newspapers. The new envoy founded El Mundo, Cuban newspaper, in 1902, at the birth of the Cuban republic. In 1914, when President Mario Menocal came into of- fice, he resigned from the diplomatic service and founded a second Cuban newspaper, La Nacion. He has written about 20 books. Of these he considers his most important one written in 1915 in Spanish, “Di- plomacy in Our History,” concerning the diplomatic history of Cuba. Akers said the attorney told him, and was wanted in Ohio for theft of some | papers from the county prosecutor's office at Wooster which were to be used against one of Shank’s clients. A woman friend of Colley’s, Shank said, had demanded $400 under threat of implicating him in theft of the papers. Akers said Shank pleaded in- nocence in the theft but told him he had decided the brst way to insure safety was to poison Coll Child Asks Adout Mother. i While on a picnic Tuesday, Mr. and Mrs. Colley and the two children died shortly after drinking grape juice. A third child, Clyde, 3 years old, was taken to a hospital at Malvern and saved. Shank fled into the woods. but was captured by a posse a short time later. Akers said he confessed after ques- .tioning. . At the Malvern Hospital, where little Clyde Colley was recovering, he plied attendants with questions about his mother. He said she was “very sick” the last time he saw her. Blond and blue-eyed, the child today was dressed in clothing brought him by well-wishers. The superiniendent of the hospital said a dozen requests for his adoption had been received. The bodies of his parents and brothers are in the morgue at Malvern. JURY IS RECALLED T0 ACT IN LYNCHING Judge Demands Prompt Considera- tion After Probe Is | Deferred. | /in most instances. This class will ha\'ei _ By the Assoclated Press TUSCALOOSA. Ala, August 17— Explaining that the situation demanded | “prompt and decisive action,” Judge Henry B. Foster today ordered the Tus- “ caloosa County grand jury to reas- semble Monday to pursue its investiga- tion of last Sunday's lynching of two colored men and the wounding of an- other. On reconsideration, Judge Foster said he believed the recess until September 4, decided on last night, was “too long” | and that the time between now and Monday would be sufficient for the gathering of facts which could not be obtained immediately in the grand jury room. The grand jury called into special ses- slon by Judge Foster recessed last night ‘without returning indictments or a re- port, offering the explanation that fur- ther study would require additional time. ‘There was no indication as the recess ‘was taken whether indictments are pos- stble. The bullet which investigators hope may furnish a clue to the iden- tity of the lynching party was taken from the body of Dan Pippen, jr. MEDIATORS SEEKING SOLUTION OF STRIKES | IN MANY OCCUPATIONS (Continued From First Page.) | are in cperation. business then. If the N. R. A tried to handle specific price questions now, the codes would be delayed for months. At least, that is the theory on which the organizers have been proceeding. The thing which made Ogburn’ warning important was that it cam when price complaints from consumers were pouring in. Housewives were howling (by mail) about canned goods and groceries going up. The man who wanted a suit found the price much higher than on the last one he bought. The motorist who had to purchase a mew tire found the price had quietly been raised 20 per cent. The incomes of these people had not been touched by the N. R. A. or any. thing else. Difficult to See Logic. In other words, if the N. R. A. has put a milllon men back to work, they will not object to price increases. But the 40.000,000 or more who are employed cannot _see the logic in price increase while their wages remain the same. And what of the unemployed Who have not yet found jobs? There are more than 10,000,000 of them on whom higher prices fall as a bitter hardship. Officials are trying to find the answer. Some remedial action may be expected soon. They cannot kecp their program from working hardships on some one Most salaried men benefited from the decline. Prices dropped before salaries “ /nCRERED PRCES. e — to_bear some of the brunt going up. The only national danger lurking in the situation is the possibility that in- creased prices will scare off buyers. That can be cured by inflation. Bankers Whisper of Test. The larger bankers are talking in whispers about organizing a court test It will be the mninl’ of the bank guarantee provision. They | consulted one lawyer who thought times |are not propitious for constitutional | arguments. He declined the case Others will take it. They will argue that it deprives the best banks of their Lusiness standing and places their weaker competitors on an equal footing. That would be an unanswerable argu- ment if made by a private business. However. the Government has unusual authority over national banks. It grants them charters, Unless the boys get cold feet. the suit will be started by Reserve city banks. Wallace Says He Talks Too Much. Agriculture Secretary Wallace was asked why cotton prices were falling The question was put in a press con- ference recently. Wallace drew a chart from his desk. It showed the prices of wheat, corn and cotton lately have followed the fluctua- denied as “misleading and erroneous® any statement that “we are denying. to labor a satisfactory return.” The: Connecticut Dress Manufacturers’ As- sociation, composed largely of operators whose plants work for jobbers on a contract_basis, blamed the ‘obbers. A representative of the ascociation said that until jobbers pay contractors more, contractors cannot pay workmen more. Joseph M. Tone. labor comm ssioner of Connecticut. said he hoped for “com- | plete extermination” of the “sweatshop evil” Other strikes were in progress in several localities. Board at Washington gave attention Jesterday to a shirt strike in Pottsville. Pa., a motion picture strike in Holly- wood and a labor cispute affecting em- ployes on the New Orleans Bridge. Closed Shop Demand Rejected. Thirty-five silk dress manufacturers and contractors in St. Louis addressed an open letter yesterday to striking employes, saying they wowd not accede to “a demand for a closed shop.” The strikers were invited to urn to work on an open shop basis. Eighteen men were discharged from work on the Boulder Dam project yes- terday after an attempt by agitators to precipitate a_strike. Agitation began in the mess hall of the Six Cos., Inc., general contractors on the project, and circulars were dis- tributed calling for an immediate walk- out, demanding a 6-hour day, no re- duction in pay and a reduction of 50 per cent in house rent. Leonard Blood, deputy Federal-State Aabor commissioner, said the agitators used such c“usive language that a free-for-all “ght ensued. One worker and a special agent for the Six Cos. were injured slightly. The 18 men dscharged were said by their employers to have been implicated in distributing propaganda. Half of the 9,000 cigar workers in the Tampa tobacco industry, who left their benches a week ago, were back at ‘_'griyutzrday under an N. R. A. code. The Naticna! Labor | tions of the dollar. When the dollar goes up, they go down. Some one pointed out his chart in- dicated dollar devaluation would be the best possible farm relief. “I am not Secretary of the Treasury,” repiied Wallace, “anyway, I-talk too much.” He folded up his chart. The background on the Wallace story is that he is an inflationist while Treas- | ury Secretary Woodin is a conservative. The fight which Budget Director Doug- las made to require farmers to pay their | seed loans with money they get from |the Government for crop reduction has hurt his_prospects of getting | Woodin's job. It has made him some- what unpopular in the ferm regions, where the administration desires to be popular. | The Roosevelts were considerate of the newsmen who accompanied them to Hyce Park. They had an open-air press party one afternoon. Mrs. Roose- velt cooked at an open fire. Mr. Roose- velt was noticeably tired when he left | Washington for his vacation, but ap- | parently fully recovered when: he re- | turned here | (Copyright, 1933.) TROPICAL STORM BREWS ‘Cu\m Held Not in Danger as Dis- turbance Blows North. ‘ HAVANA, August 17 (#).—The Na- tional Observatory reported a small tropical disturbance today south of the Isle of Pines and moving north- northwest at the rate of 20 to 35 miles an_hour. Cuba is rot in danger, the observa- tory said. In Havana there were rains and gusty winds throughout the night. Dr. Marquez Steriing speaks little “Eng. h, and is of a retiring nature. He is a short, stout man, with gray hair and mustache. His son. Dr. Carlos Marquez Ster- | ling, is a_member of the Mexican Em- bassy staff here. - =SS SALE OF D. C. DAIRY COMPANIES PROBED BY SENATE GROUP (Continued Prom First Page.) | had made big"profits beyond reasonable | business expectations and, if so, whether | those profits had resulted because they | had charged the consumers too much or had paid the farmers too little.” Mr. Davies stated that the National | Dairy Products Corporation is proud of |1 success under free and fair competi- tion, and received permission to file a memorandum of facts. Denies Advice to Bowman. R. S. Gordon, representing the Na- | tional Dairies, in questioning Mr. Gra- {ham. brought out that the purchase | of the Western Maryl. id and Fairfield | dairies was a $10,000,000 or $12,000,(00 |deal. Mr. Graham admitted he had ad- vised and engineered the deal because Charles R. Bowman, then principal owner of those dairies, owed the bank very considerable amounts. He denied that he had ever advised Mr. Bowman ; to sell out to the National Dairies be- cause he was fearful that otherwise he would be driven out of the Baltimore milk area Henry N. Brawner. president of the Chestnut Farms Dairy, and for 30 years a leading distributor in Wash- | ington, testified that the Chestnut Farms Dairy was sold to the National Dairy Products Co. at $1,660,000, and that in payment there was received 10,000 shares of National Dairy stock at $115 a share, $1.000,000 worth of gold | bonds and other stocks, all totaling | $4,250,000. | Mr, Brawner said he himself was given a contract and $30.000 a year ; for a five-year term, with the right of | renewal. His present salary is $27.000. because of a 10 per cent reduc.ion. He told the committee there is now no profit in the sale of basic milk by hic concern, but that the profits come from the sale of cream, cheese. butter and other products. Senator King asked Mr. o fixes the price at which you sl either wholesale or retail?” and the wit ness answered: “I do.” i Denies “Understanding.” | Senator King asked if it “isn’t a fact that the distributors have such cordial relations that the price is substantial uniform?” Mr. Brawner answered ! has to be.” He denied, however, that there is any | “understanding” for uniform price and pointed out that several independents are se He testified that the Chestnut Farms i Dairy is getting all of its milk supply from the Maryland-Virginia Milk Pro- ducers’ Association, except three special ' producers who have been furnishing milk to his dairy for some 32 years. The total amount received from them, how- ever, is only 150 gallons out of some 40,000 gallons. ¥ Brawner 1, controller general's office, testified re- garding the audit he had made of the Thompson Dairy books. During this phase of the hearing Senator King drew from the witness a statement that he milk in Washington among the principal distributors. ‘The attorney representing John Magill, | jr., secretary-treasurer of the Maryland- | Virginia Milk Producers’ Association, ! drew from the auditor a statement that that association was on record as claim- for surplus milk bottled and distributed as basic milk. Net Profit $1,791,889. ‘The Chevy Chase and Chestnut Farms Dairies, since their acquisition by the National Dairy Products Cor- poration, have made net profits of $1,- 791.889 during the past four years, the committee was told yesterday. Coupled with this testimony, by Nor- man Simpson, an auditor who went over the books of the two concerns at the instigation of Elwood H. Seal, assistant corporation counsel and special inves- tigator of the committee, came an ad- mi-sion ferced by Roger Whiteford, counsel for the two dairies, that this profit was not on milk, but on butter, cheese, cream and other products. The Chevy Chase Dairy, be testified, sells much of its milk below cost and makes 1 no profit on its milk business on the ground that this is a necessity of life, while cream and other products are more in the class of luxuries. The two milk distributing concerns supply approximately 60 per cent of the milk delivered in the- Washington area. ‘The net profits of the Chestnut Farms Deiry since its acquisition by the Na- tional Dairies, Simpson testified, were: From April to D2cember, 1929, $186.000; 1930, $292,324: 1931. $379.958: 1932, $432,028, and for the first six months of this year, $247,814. Delivery Costs High. Since its purchase by the same corpo- ration in 1931, Chevy Chase has ‘shown the following net profits: 1931, $187,219; 1932, $103,719, and for the first six months of this year, $74,507. The ac- tual price paid for the dairies by the =4 - | Gives | ¢ milk for a cent or two less. ! Glenn W. Rose, an auditor from the| found uniformity of prices charged for | ing a refund from the Thompson Dairy ' DR. MANUEL MARQUEZ STERLING. Underwood Photo. J0B AND PAY GAIN SHOWN BY FIGURES Secretary Perkins Announces 400,000 Returned to Work in July. (Contynued From First Page) reported by the Bureau of Statistics, between June and July, represents an estimated increase of $7,500,000 paid in weekly wages to factory workers in July over the weekly earnings of June. Roosevelt Is Gratified. Commenting on the bureau's indices shown him yesterday, President Roose- velt said the report was gratifying and indicated better times are here. The return to employment of some 400,000 workers in factories represents | ment as reported to the secretary by her statisticians. The combined gains in employment during the last | months, measured by the changes in the bureau’s indices, represents an increase in employment of 22.1 per cent betwee March and July. which, in actual fig- ures, the Secretary said, indicates the re-employment of 1.100.000 wage earn- ers in the manufacturing industries of the country over that period. The March indices due to the un- usual condition caused by the bank heliday in the early part of that month ! are the lowest points reccrded in the bureau's emplcyment and pay roll tab- ulations. The bureau’s tabulation of 16 non-manufacturing industries over the March-July period indicates ap- proximately 300,000 more workers in July than in March, Secretary Perkins declared. pointing out that these do cultural emplcyment. Changes Are Seasonal. She further pointed out that the changes reported in employment and dustries were, to a large extent, sea- sonal. The retail trade group, which normally shows some recession during the Summer months, reported a de- crease of 4.7 per cent in July, which is only slightly less than the average decline shown in the month of July. This decline would indicate, she said, that the purchasing power of country has not yet been expanded to cline in employment in this industry has been greatly diminished It is estimated, the Secretary said. that the combined total of these 16 non-manufacturing industries would show practically no change in num- ber of workers between June and July, as the decrease in employment in the retail trade, telephone and teiegraph, dyeing and cleaning and building con- struction industries practically offset | the increases reported in the 12 other | non-manufacturing indpstries. | The State totals of employment and pay roll earnings of five States and the District of Columbia showed decreases in employment. Local | declined 2.5 per cent. Miss said. A total of 622 establishments in | the ict reported to the Labor De- | parment that they had 29,235 employ on pay rolls, a decline of 2.5 per cent during the 30-day period. The wage | earnings were $669.210, a decline ot | 3.7 per cent under June. i 'ECUADOR PRESIDENT | | REFUSES TO RESIGN to | Committec—Legislators Will | : Continue in Session. | Answer Congressional By the Associated Press. ] | QUITO. Ecuador, August 17--Con- gress continued in session last night after hearing a message from President | Juan D. Martinez Mera in which he refused to resign. The Executive was visited by a commission which asked him to let the popular will rule “in the name of democracy.” | Congress approved the sending of the commission by & vote of 42 tc 2. Later| it passed a_non-confidence vote in the| cabinet. Because it supported the| President’s attitude a number of gov-| ernment supporters did not attend the session. | | The Legislature and the presidential ipalace were guarded by soldlers. A | crowd attempted to organize demonstra- tions. but pclice dispersed them. Nor-| mal conditions were reported elsewhere | in the count WOODIN GETS $355,300 | ESTATE FROM MOTHER Treasury Secretary Only Heir. Size of Fortune Revealed in Inheritance Tax Appraisal. By the Associated Press. BLOOMSBURG, Pa., August 17—/ Transfer inheritance tax appraisements today revealed Secretary of the Treas- ury William H. Woodin reccived an es- tate cf $355,300 from his mother, Mrs. Mary Woodin, who died several months ago Mrs. Woodin left no will. Her son is the only heir. The appraisement showed $22,000 in real estate and the rest in personal property. corporation was $4,412,000, the auditor testified. It was brought out in the testimony that these two dairies distribute from the same pasteurizing plant, but have Guplication of milk routes. and that their books show a delivery cost of ap- proximately 3.6 cents per bottle. Evidence of price discrimination among customers was revealed by Simp- son, who testified that different prices are charged to various customers. Among the notable cases of discrimi- nation reported was former Secretary of the Treasury Mellon paying 13 cents a quart for four bottles of milk dally, as com} with 12 cents a quart charged to Secretary of Agriculture Wallace for three quarts. the increase of 7.2 per cent in employ- | four | not include figures on railroads or agri- | pay roils in the non-manufacturing in- | the | an extent when the usual seasonal de- | and chain industries. CODE AGREED UPON N. R. A. Chiefs Get Funda- mentals in Talk Around Pres- ident Roosevelt’s Desk. (Continued From First Page.) organization and collective bargaining of employes with no restraint upon the type of re) ntation they might select. The original code presented by the National Automobile Chamber of Com- merce, with Henry Ford not yet in- dicating adherence, read: “In accordance with the foregoing provisions the employers in the auto- mobile industry propose to continue the open-shop policy heretofore followed and under which unusually satisfactory and harmonious relations with em- ployes have been maintained. The selection, retention and advancement of employes will be on the basis of in- dividual merit without regard to their affiliation or non-affiliation with any labor or other organization.” Two other proposed modifications of the collective-bargaining clause in-| cluded in the steel and coal codes have | IHAM the opposition of the administra- tion. The steel industry, at the beginning of its hearing withdrew its stipulation | that the company union plan now in use in steel plants met the require- | ments of the act, and non-union coal operators are still irm in a refusal to eliminate an open shop provision from their code, despite the demand of the | administration. The automobile code, however, reads differently and in the present form | stipulates that the open shop “may"” be continued. May Settle Controversies. ‘The belief was expressed by an offi- cial of the administration that the wording of the automobile code might be substituted in other major non- union industries to point the way to | & settlement of the controversies over union organization. The coal conference originally was | slated for August 22, but the adminis- tration’s desire for speedy action in ap- | proval of a code for the industry prompted it to move forward the ses- sion to tomorrow. Only operators who submitted codes were invited. The intense oil situation has shoved {into the background for the moment the important steel code. Deputy Simpson | told newspaper men it was unlikely that | he could find time today for work on | steel although he might possibly have | | some conversations late in the after- noon Steel representatives and Dr. Alex- ander Sachs, Johnson's statistical ex- pert, continued to work for the third | successive day at the Commerce De- partment on facts and figures govern- ing wages and working hours in steel. | | Their problem was reconciling figures presented at the steel hearings by Sec- retary of Labor Perkins ard those brought to Washington by the big steel | companies. The results of their work on statis- | tical data will be placed before Johnson | to aid him in reaching his decision on | the steel code. | Simpson seid yesterday he had “not i seen any evidence of a change in atti- tude” from that recently expressed by | Robert Lamont, head of the Iron and ! Steel Institute, when he said steel had made every concession it could. | | Moves to Restore Peace. | | Secretary of Labor Perkins, at whose | | office the rupture between stecl and | labor’s spokesmen took place, moved | swiftly yesierday to restore peace. She announced that in order to facili- tate & quick agreement on the steel | code, statisticlans and technical ex- perts for the operators and those of the Labor Advisory Committee of the N. R A. would k a_common understanding and report to Johnson. Asted about the diffcrences of Tues- day, when heads of five great steel com- panies refused to sit al a conference with Green, Miss Perkins said the in- terests of the steel workers would be proiected and added “The Government in some com-, plicated codes has invited a joint con- ference of interested parties with dif- ferent opinions after the public hearings, in order that misconceptions may b removed, facts and figures reconciled, | and the differences in mere opinions reduced to a minimum before the ad- ministrator takes‘up tne code for firal! study and revision before recommend- | ing it to the President for promulga- tion.” | None Compelled to Participate. Referring to the walkout by the steel | men. Miss Perkins sai “No_individual or affected group is compelled to participate. and when it became obvious that some of the! operators (not all, I believe) preferred | not to perticivate in the conference. | the deputy Aadministrator. Kenneth Simrson. and I announced that the conference was dissolved ™ Green told newspaper men vesterday that “if Johnson calls me in cn a steel conference T'll go, of course.” “TI couldn’t be a slacker.” he added. “In what I regard as an emergency I'l| continue to render my services. T re- gard their refusal to confer with me as | representative of the stee] magnates’ fundamental opposition to organization | of their emploves.” Green, who 1< al<o the appointed labor adviser of the N. R. A for the automo- bile code. sat in for several hours at vesterday’s conference of the auto men. | This session dealt primarilv with the hours of work proposed by the automo- | bile ingustry, namely a 35-hour week | with a 43-hour maximum during sea- | sonal periods. . Temporary Codes. Among the temporary modified pres- idential agreements given effectiveness yesterday were those covering the gas appliances, folding box manufacturers, book manufacturers, cooking and heat- | ing appliances, farm equipment, bleached shellac, shovel, dragline and crane, lead | The flat glass industry filled a pro- posed scale of wages end hours for | plate. laminated. structural, rough-rolled and wire glass factories. The scale was offered as a substitute for the hour and wage provisions of the blanket code, under which the industry is for the most part operating at pres- ent, Walter W. Ahrens. Washington at- torney who presented it, said. It proposes a 42-hour week for work- ers engaged in continuous processes and a 36-hour week for all other workers and a basic minimum wage of 35 cents an hour, with differentials between the North and the South and for the various types of work. ':nm scale was agreed upon by a com- mittee representing 90 per cent of the plate glass industry. 95 per cent cf the luminated glass industry, 100 per cent of the structural glass industry and 75 per cent of the rough-rolled and wire glass industry, it was said. Adjusting Differences. Meanwhile, representatives of hard building material concerns refused to come under a code of competition pro- by retail lumbermen and a series of conferences was held in an effort to adjust the differences. The retailers asked & 40-hour maximum week and graduated minimum wages. Conferences were attended by repre- sentatives of the National Retail Lum- ber Dealers’ Acsociation and of the Naticnal Federation of Building Sup- plies Association which hes presented a separate code for dealers in brick and other masonry supplies. Retail lumber spokesmen indicated they did not object to the other group having a separate code for firms han- dling hard materials exclusively, but insisted on including in their ' | arrest week minimum code | elimination of spectal in the West- by population. Held in Doctor’s Death BOY COMPANIONS GET HEAVY SENTENCES. TTH 10,000 doctors of the Nation demanding an early trial, Blanche! Chevitel (left) and Mildred of being involved in the slaying of Dr. Bernard F. Garnitz, who was alain in a hold-up on a fake call. Three youths, companions of the girls, were sentenced to 100 years in prison, August 14, in Chicago, as judges continued to work overtime to clear criminal dockets.—A. P. Photo. | Rundle face trial in Chicago on charges | INFLATION ASKED 10 HELP FARMERS Senator Smith Wants Action at Once to Halt Drop in Prices. By the Associated Press. Immediate currency inflation to falling farm commodity prices was advocated today by Chairman Smith of the Senate Agriculture Com- mittee, who said he planned to lay his views before President Roosevelt later in the day. Senator Gecrge, Democrat, of Georgia, third ranking member of the Finance Committee, who also is work. ing to boost farm prices, will accompany the South Carolina Democrat to the ‘White House. Chairman Jones cf the House Agri- culture Committee, likewise has been consulted on means of boosting farm prices and may go with the Senators. Two Silent on Views. Neither he nor George. howev weuld indicate their definite proposals fcr bringing this about nor would they express their views on the inflation proposal “1 don't see any chance of general recovery unless we have inflation to re- lieve the situation,” Smith told news- paper men. “Commodity prices are the basts on which all those measures are predicated and they must be sustained.” He proposed that the Government is- sue non-interest-bearing certificates to cover part of the $3,300,000,000 provided for public works. Inflation “Only Chance.” “In my opinion,” he said, “the only chance is inflation. The President has that power, which is given him under the recovery act.” Smith said the “tremendous drop” in cotton prices the last two or three days actually brought 1t lower than it was be- fore the recovery measures began to operate, because of a disproportionate increase in prices of manufactured articles. He cited, also, falling wheat and cattle prices and characterized the situation “a menace to the whole pro- gram of the administration.” . C. C. AUTHORIZES ROCK ISLAND MERGER UNDER STIPULATIONS __ (Continued From First Page.) merely to take over directly the finan- cial obligations of its subsidiary com- panies. for which it is now responsible hrough its guaraniees or proprietary nterests.” The system is composed of three op- erating and mnine NoN-OpPeraling cor- poraifons. In the firs: group, in addi- tion to the parent company, are the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Rail- way and the Peoria Terminal Co. The Rock Island itself operates 7.621 miles of line in Illinois. Towa, Missouri, Minnesota, South Dakota, Kensi Nebracka, Celorado, New Mexico. Okla- homa, Arkansas, Louisiana and Ten- nessee Mahaffie Dissents on Point. Commissioner Mahaffie dis-ented from the condition requiring the Rock Island to bind itself, if in a subsequent pro- ceeding the commis-ion did so find. to acquire the Wichita Northwestern. “The applicant.” Mahafle said. “is in process of reorganization. It is necessary that its financial end cor- porate structure be simplified. This proceeding is merely a step in that direction and involves nothing beyond that. “No new properties are being brcught into the system. The imposition of the condition adds a contingent lability which is quite incapable of appraisal. * * * If the Rock Island-Frisco system were being created here, there perhaps might be & justification for such a condition.” Ccmmissioner Tate concurred in this dissent. The Rock Island’s plan contemplates the transfer of the subcidiary prop- ertles to the parent which is to assume the entire funded debt and other financial obligations of the vendors. The parent road also has agreed to carry out all their contracts. and pay such additicnal consideration. if any as shall be approved or required by | No issue of additional | the commission. securities is planned. The commission said assumption of the bonds of the subsidiaries does not involve any chanRe in the Rock Island’s ultimate liability since it is now liable ! through indorsement cr through its proprietary interest for all of them. A balance sheet as of May 31, 1932, which the commission described as “theoreticel” showed the aggregate stocks and bonds cf the Consolidated Corporation. at par, to be $447,024.631, arrived at by eliminating intra-system holdings. » ‘The value of the Consolidated prop- erties as of the same date was placed at $51,053,252. JAIL FUGITIVES SHOT GUANTANAMO, Cuba, August 17 (P). —Four prisoners and severatl guards were wounded in a prison break here to- day. An undetermined number of pris- oners escaped. The four who were wounded were recaptured. ern and rural areas, who handle both classes of material. Father Francis J. Haas of the Labor 30 Advisory Board differential classes Farley, Lying in Bed |Here, Asks Colorado To Vote for Repeul‘ |Glad Television Is Absent As Pajama-Clad Fig- ure Phones State. By the Assoclated Press. | Postmaster General Farley today de- | scribed “a new experience” to his press conference—lying in bed in green pa- jamas last night at 11:30, making a 10-minute speech on prohibition repeal to the Colorado Legislature in banguet session. “Times are changirg.” Farley con mented. “An end like that to a per- fect day! Wonder if I didn't break some code?” It was cnly 9:30 out in Denver when the Postma. General red by phone and was ampiified. so the diners probably didn't lize “Big Jim” as he'd have appeared by tele- vision. But they must ve enjoyed the added fillip of informality his speecn took on undcr the circumstances. “1 have addressed m: banquets but this is the first cne I have not been given anything to eat.” he told | them, adding they probably thought he was filled with political pork and patronage plums.” it wasn't necessary to ask him to eat He told Coloradoans expected them to put their September 5 election. By the end of August, he prophesied, 24 States rep- resenting more than half the popula- tion, would be in the repeal column “Repeal of the eighteenth amendment is linked inseparably with the Presi- dent's industrial recovery program,” said Farley. The “new taxes necessary to amortize public works and 'mployment.” he said, depended upon “revenues from a regulated and controlled liquor traffic” going into Federal and State treasuries ——“instead of being paid out in tribute to_racketeers.” In States where repeal elections are vending, Farley will continue to make acddresses. H> was scheduled to leave here to- cay for New York to dedicate the new Albany post office. VIRGINIA BEERBILL S GIVEN ASSEWBLY he confidently over repeal on Measure Is Presented in Both House and Senate Simultaneously. By the Ass ed Press RICHMOND. Va. August 17.—Th. Virginia bill legalizin® sale of beer was | introduced in the special session of the | General Assewbly today. i It would legaize the sale of beer, |lage: beer. ale, porter, wine, similar | termented malt’ and vinous liquor and frui. juices of not more than 3.2 pe: cent alcoholic weight, on and afte. five 2:2 of the measure. bill was introduced simuliane- ously in both the House and the Senate by the chaimen of the respective Finance Committecs—Delegate Wilber C. Hall »f Loudoun. and Senator W. A Garreti of Ridgeway. Imposes State Tax. As originally introduced the bill im- poscs a State excise tax of 1 cent a bottl~ on th: beverage in containers, and $3.10 per barrel for 31-galion bar- rels. Delegate Hall said the mgasure was an administration bill, and in®com- | mittee we would seek to have the excise | taxes reduced by half. Under the bill the State license tax will be $100 per annum for manufac- | turers, and $55 per vear for bottlers, | and wholesalers. and $5 a year for re- tailers, in vears subsequent to 1933. For the remainder of this year the manu- | facturer’s tex wiil be $50. bottlers anc wholesa'ers $25, and retailers $5. Localities, under the bill's provision, may impose an additional license tax The maximum in these taxes by coun- tes, cities and towns, was set at $1,000 per annum on manufacturers. $1,000 per year on wholesalers and bottlers. and for retailers in cities, $20, and for re- | | tailers in counties and towns, $10 per | year. | i Requires $500 Bond. The bill has rigid rectrictions on the character and reputation of persons engaged in the beverage business, and requires the posting of a $500 bond. Revenue features of the measure are under the supervision of the State tax | commissioner, who is given authoriza- tion for the use of both stamps and caps Licenses are to be issued through | the commissioners of the revenue, and | taxes are to be collected through the | | local treasurers. | Al State revenue from the beverage business is directed into the general fund, with provisions for 5 per cent of the total to be used in enforcement. EARLY APPOINTED Nathaniel Early, jr., of Ruckersville. Va., was appointed by President Roose- velt today to be collector of internal rcenue for Virginia, succeeding A. Pen- dleton Strother. At the same time the President ap- pointed J. Karl Major to be United States district judge for the southern district of ois, succeeding Judge romoted to the Cir- | said jat the White House at which | said Secretary Mills REPEAL REFERENDA ASKED BY POLLARD Message Is Delivered to Spe- cial Session of Virginia< Assembly. (Continued Prom First Page.) for legislative commission and for as- sembly, he said, and without it he said he did not feel that four-fifths ma- fority could be obtained, cither for the cense or dispensary acts. The Governor estimated revenue to be den\‘edwl‘ro';n]llquor tax from next anuary uly (six mon $1,000,000. : i He ‘warned the assembly against a control act without a referendum, as- serting that it would be repeating a mistake made by prohibitionists - in adoption of the eighteenth amendment and would cause agitation to begin at once for a change. He said State- wide prohibition was placed on th statute books by a vote of the peoplc and to remove it by any other metho. | would be sowing seeds of discord. Asserting his_belief in reoresenta- tive government, the chief executive said the liquor problem and issuance of State bonds were questions which experience” had shown should be sub- mitted to direct action by the people Before adoption of the eighteenth amendment he said there were over 100 Statewide and 1,000 local referen- dums. At the outset of his messa ered to legislators in person, the Gov- ernor recalled that the session had becr called over his opposition by member and said he agreed now that it w fully justified. He said it had becom necessary for National recovery co- cperation, relief and public works legis- lation, for State financial legislation and since repcal was indicated at ar early date, to reach earlier decision o how the State should deal liquor problem He called attention to the pledge of & majority of members calling the ses- sion, to confine subjects to beer and repeal legislation and such other mat- ters as the Governor might recommend in writing, and asserted this should shorten the labor of the body The public works section of his mes sage was delaved until a later dat probably Fridaj A lengthy ge, de detalled report of W 0 $4.000.000 1929-19: vould reach § t year nder budget est approximately $9.000,000 we said. by withhclding capi.al out $1,500,000. by $1,000 mies and T tion reductions of of $10,000,000 Citing cuts’ made w provision 10 maintain b the Govern: as compared with predicted ing_the cur; Declines not cxcepted. Financial Burdens Hecavy. While reductions have o e Goverr to assume magnitude recommens criminal ck: federate pensions continued. exceeded budget by $566.000. For the current year he e-tim the excess at $750.000. with $200 ng the loss to the gene u y a court dec N invalidat the section of the State p under which fines collected liqu cases were applied to payment of cos. Under the decision fines r must go into liter A bill placing tr sioners of revenue on salaries, would result in a net increase in collection costs of $175.000 above b get estimates. Tax refunds under court decisions amounting to $350,000 were also cited. A deficit of $618,859 was reported as of June 30 as a result “Critical conditions with which wi are now confronted make it of utm importance that any additional reyv- enues which are,obtained during this fiscal year from assessment of tax on beer be first applied as offset to this unforseen burden on State treasury and to meeting cost of this special session, including increased outlay for publi | printing and for division of statuto: research and drafting. It is impera- tively necessary to protect the State from any additional financial burdens during period of emergency and great- Iv reduced revenue,” he said in clusion. DECLARES HOOVER ASKED ‘POLITICAL" LOAN STATEME:. (Continued Prom First Page) leaders had expressed firm dis 8 of the loan. " St Reads From Chronology. The Senator, reading from a pared chronology of events in which | took a prominent part during the bai crisis, described a meeting of R. F. ( officials with Mr. Hoover, 3 Mills, Secretary of the Treasury, arn Senators Couzens and Arthur H. Van denberg of Michigan, at which the loan was dxs(;gsf;d. e said the application was for $45.- 000,000, and the R. F. C. had scaic. assets offered as valued at $37,700,000 He declared the deposit liability of th Union Guardian Trust Co., for w the loan was sought. was $20.500,000. “The law says very explicitly every R. F. C. loan must have ‘full a1 adequate’ security” he said. “Ever; Federal official having to do with th. Detroit banking situation, from th President down, were of the opinior that the security offered by representa tives of the Union Guardian ade quate only for a loan up to $37,500,00 The law prohibited loaning more. The Senator, discussing testimony ct a previous witness that Alfred P. Ley burn, then chief bank examiner for th seventh Federal Reserve district, had “Couzens alone is opposing the loan,” branded the statement “an abso lute untruth.” He said he was by nc means alone in the refusal “Mr. Miller (Charles A. Miller. the: chairman of the R. F. C.) at a sessio: I wa present denounced the loan to Presiden Hoover on other grounds.” he said. Senator Reads Memo. Miller, the Senator testified, charac terized the proposed loan as “immoral in that the Guardian group “was offer- ing the assets of its stronger units to get money to bolster its weaker banks” The Senator read a memo which he furnished at a White House conference, |ist‘m% the amount of loan sought for the Union Guardian Trust Co., the securfty of- - fered, and said the plan contemplated removal of undesirable assets from the banks, as well as getting out of the banking business and operating solely as a trust compeny Couzens said he offered no objection to the loan of $37.700.000. and declared that “surely that amount would have been sufficient.” “I ask you if $37.700,000 was not encugh to liquidate a deposit liability of $20.500,000?” He said. “it ‘= al- leged in testimony that the trust com- pany was forced to close because it could not get enough money to pay off its I never objected to the $37, > a