Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1933, Page 1

~ WEATHER. . (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) ‘ Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, . showers tomorrow afternoon or night; warmer tonight; gentle southerly winds ‘Temperatures—Highest, 74, at noon to- day; lowest, 52, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page A-12. | “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. Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,647 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ch WASHINGTON, D. C, Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 Entered as second class matter No. 32,6 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1933—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. %% . UP Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. post office, Washington, D. C. PARLEY IN CUBA AROUSES HOPES OF EARLY ACGORD Grau San Martin, His Foes and Friends, Meet With Neutral Mediators. WELLES-BATISTA TALK SUBJECT OF CONJECTURE Rebels Mass in Towns Near Colon While Blas Hernandez Defies Efforts to Get Him. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, September 23.—President Grau San Martin and his foes and friends met with neutral mediators tos day and an early solution to bitter po- litical differences was officially predicted as a result. Guarded by heavily-armed detach- ments of cavalry, members of the stu- dent directory, the President’s strongest supporters, and leaders of five opposi- tion factions convened in the presiden- tial palace to resume negotiations the executive broke off a week ago when he refused to entertain demands for his resignation. Memorandum Issued. Later the students issued a memo- randum, as an answer to their oppon- ents’ proposals for governmental reor- ganization, which said: “We do not comprehend why poli- ticians are not supporting the best and cleanest government Cuba ever had.” It asked all Cubans to co-operate with the Grau regime in establishing peace and order and obtaining the recognition of civilized nations. When the meeting disbanded, it was announced they would convene again at noon. A three-point program was adopted to govern future discussions, as follows: (1) There must be no foreign inter- ference in the government, (2) the government must be non-political, (3)'1t must carry out the revolutionary pro- gram. Welles and Batista Confer. Another two-hour conference between American Ambassador Sumner Welles and Col Fulgencio Batista, head of the government armed forces, was the sub—‘ Ject of much conjecture. What they talked about was not re- vealed. Mr. Welles had previously talked with the pro-government student directory and dissident army officers. Meanwhile open revolt was under way in at least two provinces. Seven hun- dred rebels concentrated in small towns | and under their instructions negotia- | ber 2. near Colon, in the interior of Matanzas Province. A few hundred miles awa: in Camaguey Province, Juan Blas He nandez defied efforts to get him. Officials considered the possibility that the movements were ruses to trick the government into weakening military strength in the capital. Acts to Forestall Strike. Labor troubles continued bothersome and President Grau San Martin, to forestall a railroad strike in Camaguey, signed a decree ordering the American- n\l\g'xx)‘ed Consolidated Railways of Cuba to reinstate the March, 1933, wage scale. A Havana warehouse strike failed of settlement and the danger of an im- minent food shortage became more acute This contingency likewise aced 500 officers held virtual prisoners in the National Hotel, for their supplies will last only a few days. An effort by Col. Batista to get a truckload of food to them failed when militant civilians and government supporters declared food could be brought the officers “only over our dead bodies.” The officers oppose Grau San Martin. Rebels Occupy Manguilo. 1t was believed Batista’s men with- drew to avoid conflict with those who backed him in the revolutionary period. Two hundred rebels occupied Man- guito, less than 150 miles from Havana, and Batista, one-time top sergearn studied the possibility they were work- ing for a strategic point from which to concentrate on the capital. Forty Americans were still in refuge at Rente, near Santiago. Thirteen others, prisoners of strikers at the Cristo mines, have arrived safely at Santiago, where 150 foreigners made | plans for defense. 13 CAPTURED IN CLASH. Prisoners Include Two Sons of Juln‘ Blas Hernandez. CAMAGUEY, Cuba, September 23 (#). «—Two soldiers were wounded by ma- chine gun fire and 13 prisoners, includ- | ing two sons of the rebel leader, Juan Blas Hernandez, were captured today in an engagement between government troops and the revolutionaries on a farm near Jatibonico. ROOSEVELT RELAXING ON WEEK END CRUISE Hundreds Gather at Fredericksburg to See President Board Yacht Sequoia. By the Assoclated Press. President Roosevelt sailed the lower Potomac today on a week end cruise aboard the Government yacht Sequoia. He left on his brief vacation last night, ‘boarding the Sequoia at Fredericksburg, Va. With the President were Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Judge Sam- el I. Rosenman and Mrs. Rosenman of New York, and Miss Marguerite Le Hand, his secretary. Several hundred pecple gathered at the Fredericksburg dock to see the President start the trip, in which he hopes to get away from all but the most urgent problems for a day or two. GUIDE FOR READER;I Amusements Churches Comics Features Finance Lost and "Found. Serial Story Society Sports Huey Long’s Home Threatened as Two Fires Break Out Blazes Found in Wash Room and Basement Two Hours Apart. By the Assoclated Press. NEW ORLEANS, September 23.—Two fires threatened the home of Senator Huey P. Long early today while Mrs. Long was at home alone. Each time a policeman called the fire department and the flames were extinguished. Dam- age was estimated at $1,700. ‘This was the third fire this year that has threatened ‘the Senator’s $40,000 home on Audubon boulevard and police haive been unable to account for their origin. ‘The first fire today was discovered at 1 am. 1n a clothes basket in the wash room of the house. Firemen put it out, but at 3:20 a.m. they were called back to extinguish another fire in the base- ment. Several months ago a fire burned the + Senator’s automobile in the garage. i BY KIDNAP PLOT Intended Victim of Nurse and Accomplice. By the Associated Press. YONKERS, N. Y., September 23.—A kidnap plot that changed a scciety church wedding into a quiet home ‘ceremony, with Department of Justice | agents as witnesses, was disclosed to- day with the arrest of two persons on charges of attempted extortion. The bride and intended victim of the plot was the former Helen Batcheller, \niece of Russell C. Leffingwell, an As- | sistant Secretary of the Treasury in | the Wilson Administration, and now a | partner in the banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin A. Batcheller | K. Dougherty. Her mother is a sister |'of Lefingwell. | Preparations were under way fcr the | wedding when Batcheller received the | first four notes, demanding $10,000, un- ! der threat that his daughter would be | kidnaped and subjected, to bodily harm. | Wedding Plans Changed. Invitations had gone out for the, church ceremony and the bride had her wedding plans well on the way to com- pletion. ‘When the first threatening note was received her father immediately noti- | fied Federal agents and Yonkers police, tions were begun with the kidnapers. Meanwhile, a sudden change was made in the wedding plans. The first | set of invitations was recalled and a second sent out. The result was that | when the wedding took place, Septem- its ber 14, instead of the brilllant church The close proximity of Jersey City to service originally planned, it was a quiet | home ceremony, with Department of | Justice agents as witnesses. { The arrests of the alleged plotters and the details were announced simul- taneously today here and in New York | City by Chief of Police Edward Quirk of Yonkers and Thomas F. Cullen, agent |in charge of the Department of Justice | in New York. | Negotiations Continued. After the wedding the negotiations were continued and finally the plotters were instructed to meet an intermediary ‘on a lonely road in Yonkers last night. | A dummy package containing some ! marked currency was prepared and the irendezvous was kept, with the result that the nurse, who described herself as Nicolina Caroline De Palma, 23, of Yonkers, and the former gasoline sta- | tion attendant, who said is James Medley, 25, also of Yonkers, were ar- rested. . Cullen said the nurse told him the idea of the plot was conceived by Med- ley. Cullen said the nurse drove to the rendezvous in an automobile and after her arrest implicated Medley. Federal agents said that when the nurse ap- peared last night she had with her a hollowed-out loaf of bread, apparently intending to use it as a hiding place for the money. — NAVAL AUTHORITIES BALK SERVING OF WARRANT for Arrest of Officer as Result of Auto Accident. By the Associated Press. COLON, Canal Zone, September 23.— District Judge R. C. P. Thomas has is- sued a bench warrant for the arrest of Lieut. John Henry Cross on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, but United States naval authorities have refused to allow the warrant to be served. | Last week J. J. McGuigan, Cristobal district attorney, applied for the arrest of the lieutenant on charges arising from the death of Lieut. Robert B. Morgan, who was killed when Cross’ automobile collided with a bus. Cross was graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1927. His home is Canandaigua, N. Y. He was a guard on the national championship foot ball team in 1926. In 1930 he married Emily Stewart Macklin of Bal- timore. Niece of Morgan Partner Was | of Yonkers, and now the wife of John | Canal Zone Judge Issues Papers|- NEWARK IS CHOSEN BY STOCK EXCHANGE AS TRADING CENTER Center Market to Be Leased for Operations in Shift to Fight Taxes. CLEARING CORPORATION TO BE IN JERSEY CITY {Move Contemplated October Newspaper Reports—$100,000 Offered for One-Year Lease. 2, By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 23 —Selec- tion of Newark as the site for the new Stock Exchange in New Jersey was announced by the New York Stock Exchange today. ‘The New Jersey Stock Exchange, or- ganized by the members of the New York Exchange, will lease the Center Market in Newark for trading pur- poses. It also was announced at the offices of the Stock Exchange that the Stock Clearing Corporation will occupy the Pennsylvania Terminal in Jersey City. Arrangement Announced. Arrangement whereby the Stock Ex- change will be provided a haven of ref- uge from the high taxes which Tam- many seeks to impose on brokers’ profits and stock transfers in New York City was announced in two statements | signed by Howard Froelick, chairman | of the Organizing Committee for the | new market. The statement regarding the ex- change was jointly signed with Mayor ! Ellenstein of Newark, and the one re- garding the Stock Clearing Corpora- tion with Mayor Hague of Jersey City. | The Organization Committee decided to split the trading, and the clearing in Jersey City, just across the river, | would_facilitate transfer of securities | from New York City. The statement said terms had beer | jagreed upon for rental of the entire | Center Market Building for “a period of years.” “The Center Market Building is | Jersey Stock Exchange,” Froelick said. | “It will provide a trading floor sub- | stantially larger than that of the New | York Stock Exchange. Start Trading October 2. | “Contractors have been engaged and | the work of preparing the new trading | floor will be | T fully expect that trading in a sub- | stantial number of important stocks will be inaugurated on Monday, Octo- | .. The statement by Froelick and Mayor | Hague said regarding the stock clear- | ing_corporation branch: | “The work of this branch will be to ‘clnr and settle the transactions made on the New Jersey Stock Exchange. ‘the offices of members of the exchange situated in downtown New York makes |1t the logical place for this organiza- | | tion which will receive and deliver the | securities dealt in on the New Jersey Stock Exchange. J Action Denies Bluff. | “The Committee on Organization con- sidered seriously locating the trading floor of the new exchange in the Penn- | sylvania Terminal in Jersey City. The | space immediately available, however, | was not sufficient for the needs of the | J‘new exchange.” Announcement of completion of plans | was the stock exchange’s answer to intimations in city political circles that the brokers were “bluffing.” Stock exchange quarters were em- phatic in saying that trading would start in Newark October 2, and it was believed that failure of Mayor O'Brien to sign the new tax measure would not deter the move. 'MUNICIPAL POWER PLANT SUGGESTED| Rau Reports Estimates Saving of $4,000,000 Would Result From Move. Establishment of & municipally- owned power plant for the District of Columbia is recommended in a report made public today covering a technical study of the question by O. M. Rau, a consulting engineer commissioned for the purpose by the Commissioners at the instance of Congress. Rau_estimates a saving of $4,000,000 annually in the cost of electric power service here if a municipal plant were built for the use of both the Govern- ment and the public. He estimated there would result an annual saving of $1,000,000 if a mu- nicipal plant were built only for use of Government agencies. . The report is the result of an inten- sive study of the question since Mr. | Rau was commissioned a year ago lasty! July. His study is in addition to an earlier survey of the question made by Earl Barber, a New England engineer, who resigned a place on the Public Service Commission cf Massachusetts to conduct the District survey. RAILROADERS BOW TO BUS MEN WITHIN RANKS OF BR By the Associated Press. i ONEONTA, N. Y. September 23— The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen | met for its fiftieth anniversary today { with the prediction from its president that within six months there will be more truck and bus drivers than rail- road men in its rarmks. President Alexander F. Whitney re- ! vealed that since August 1, about 40,000 motor vehicle operators have enrolled. About 50,000 more have applied for ad- mission to the brotherhood, which is one of the “big four” of organized rail- road labor. “There are 129,000 trainmen in the organization,” Whitney said. “My pre- diction is 200,000 bus and truck drivers in_six months. ‘Whitney headed a conference of “key men” from the American Continent. ,, OTHERHOOD They met at Albany yesterday, and came here today to sit for a brief cere- mony in the old four-wheeled Deleware & Hudson railroad caboose, where the brotherhood was founded in 1883. Since then the brotherhood has been a basic organization of American labor. The white-haired president sald he was responsible for the decision on! August 1 to admit to the old railroad | organization men who never swung a ahkic: lantern or punched a day coach cket. “The 1931 convention of the brother- hood gave me authority to take them | in when I thought the time was oppor- tune,” he said. He investigated and found that some former railroad men had even taken jobs on bus and truck lines. The simil- developments under the N. R. A, led him to take the step, he explained, ideally suited to the needs of the New | imnins the principal obstacle, but hope :| was expressed that a four-power ac- arity of occupation, and national labor | story X W \ THE PEOPLE OF T HE U. S. VS. GEORGE (MACHIN GUN) KELLY. 1 FOUR POWERS FORM ARMS PACT U. S., France, Britain and| Italy to Present United Front Against Germany. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 23.—That lhe‘ United States, France, Britain and| Italy will face Germany with a united disarmament front at Geneva was fore- | seen by French officials today as a re-| sult of a tentative agreement for the limitation and control of arms. The understanding, which awaits ratification by the governments, was reached in conferences by representa- tives of the first three powers, French sources announced. Obtaining Germany's acceptance of “this common viewpoint,” they said, re- | cord will be completed by October 9 to| enable negotiations with Gerrsny to proceed along a “solid front” with the | reopening of the World Disarmament Conference October 16. French May Cut Army. The French were understood to have | indicated a willingness to trim their powerful army if the German Reichs- | wehr is transformed into a short-term militia during a_transition period pre- liminary to a reduction in arms. | The duration of this period and the | method of arms_supervision, on which | the French and British differed, seemed virtually settled with the reported agreement on a three or four year pe- | riod, with supervision exercised by a| permanent committee to be named by | the conference. | Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour said he would outline solutions to the various problems before the French cabinet today, but formal approval was | not expected until France hears from the American, British and Italian gov- ernments. Penalties Are Problem. Some difficulty also was experienced regarding penalties suggested for & breach of any pact. American Ambas- sador Norman H. Davis said his gov- ernment would not approve the imposi- tion of sanctions or penalties. The convention would be divided into two parts—a transition period for tak- ing an inventory of existing arms and effectives and the disarmament phase 1f. ’ufn ‘American quarters it was said that | “the mere fact that the European sit- uation has become so serious is bring- ing about decisions which we could not get otherwise.” The German disarmament counter- proposals, which Konstantin von Neurath, German foreign minister, will announce at Geneva, still remained secret, but they aroused speculation. German Conditions. The German Ambassador visited Lord Tyrrell, the British Ambassador, yester- day, but French officials said nothing was known of the German plan. The three powers, instead of seeking to an- ticipate the German ideas, pursued the original French scheme. ‘The German propositions were given by the newspaper L'Echo de Paris as acceptance of an automatic supervision and test period under the four following conditions: First, Germany would be authorized to fortify the Franco-German frontier the same as France. Second, these defenses would be equip- ped with heavy artillery. Third, air bombers would be abolished, but pursuit planes would be permitted all countries, including Germany. Fourth, supervisior. would be arranged especially between the countries, for ex- ample, between France and Germany, (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) NEWS VENDERS FINED; CALLED PAPER “EXTRA” Two Assessed $5 Each for Misrep- resenting Regular Edition Carry- ing Lindbergh Story. Arrested yesterday on a charge of crying “extra” while trying to sell the regular edition of an afternoon news- paper, Frank T. West, 47, 700 block Ffth street, and Frank O’Connor, 20, 800 block of Fifth street, were fined $5 each by Police Court Judge John P. McMahon toda y. The arrest followed several complaints of persons in the vicinity of Twenty- first and California streets. Policeman M. C. Barco of the third precinct ar- rested West and O'Connor and said he heard both crying “extra” and saw both sell papers. O’Connor admitted in court that he sold a paper for 5 cents while the regular price was 3 cents. ‘The edition in question contained a stating the kidnapers of the Lind- bergh baby had been apprehended in Brussels, Belgium. “Gore’s Hell” Given By Puerto Rico in Slap at Governor By the Assoclated Press. PONCE. Puerto Rico, Septem- ber 23—A play entitled “Gore's Hell” was presented last night at the Municipal Theater at San Juan. It was a criticism of the nodmmmnnon of Gov. Robert H. ore. Political leaders in Puerto Rico have asserted that Gov. Gore de- manded that all members of the cabinet present him with their resignations, to be made effective whenever he might desire. ROOSEVELT SEEKS 0 FREE DEPOSIT Confers With Aides Tomor- row Night on Credit Expan- sion, Cash in Closed Banks. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt will press his credit expansion program at a confer- ence tomerrow night at the White House with Secretary Woodin and his aides. Getting into circulation the millions | of doliars still locked up in closed | kins, the relief administrator, banks and releasing additional millions of deposits now lying idle in the banks is one of the main objects of the new Roosevelt move. He will return from his week end cruise on the Rappahannock and Poto- mac Rivers late Sunday to attend the financial parley. Secretary Woodin will arrive here tonight. There is talk of currency infiation here, as usual, but no confirmation at the White House that this step is con- templated just now. It appears to be the intention of Mr. Roosevelt to call upon the bankers to put forward the credit which he feels they have available. If they do not act, he has the power from Congress to issue new currency. A new Eroposal is in prospect for releasing the deposits in closed banks. Administration leaders have been work- ing on this for several weeks and it will be taken up at tomorrow night's con- ference. LINDBERGH RANSOM MONEY CASE FAILS Large Bill Excites Police, but Proves to Have No Bearing on Kidnaping. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 23. —Police said today a £1,000 note in the possession of three men who received prison sentences yesterday had noth- ing to do with the Lindbergh kidnaping case, as they had suspected. The money, authorities announced, was stolen from & Dutchman. Originally the police thought the theft was con- nected with an effort to dispose of the Lindbergh ransom money. HOME IS DYNAMITED Eighth Blast in Coal Fields With- in Two Weeks. SCRANTON, Pa., September 23 (#).— The eighth dynamiting in Lackawanna County within 15 days occurred early today at the home of Joseph Kawiat- wisky of Dickson City. Kawiatwisky, & pump runner at the Johnson col- liery of the Penn Anthracite Mining Co., was at work at the time. His wife and three children were badly shaken up. Considerable damage was caused to the front porch and a number of windows were shattered. Dickson City police attributed the dynamiting to the strike which has been called among Penn Anthracite workers by the Anthracite Miners of Pennsyl- vania, new mine union. sy FAMOUS JURIST DIES KINGSTON, N. Y., September 23 (®). —Alphonso T. Clearwater, former jus- tice of the New York Supreme Court and one of the best known in the State, died early today after an ill- ness of two days. Judge Clearwater, 85, was one of the anizers of the American org: Bar Asso- ciation and the American Law Institute and had served as president of the New York State Bar Association. He was born at West Polnt, N. ¥, PRESIDENT STUDIES Considers Adding Fuel to Program of Feeding and Clothing Destitute. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt is considering the advisability of adding Federal coal dis- tribution to the Government's enlarged program for feeding and clothing desti- tute families. He studied the possibility of supply- ing fuel to the needy during the Winter months as the Agricultural Adjustment Administration crganized for purchas- ing and distributing through relief | agenctes portions of the large farm sur- | | pluses of beef, dairy and poultry prod- | ucts; cotton and cotton seed. | The President has reached no decision regarding coal purchases. | culture, which the new relief program |is designed to help, coal is an industry which has suffered from reduced con- | sumption. " | Federal officials, who were given 30 | days by the President to start deliver- ing additional food and elothing to the unemployed, today were perfecting the | necessary organization details and were | planning their work on a long-term | rather a temporary basis. | "It was the Agricultural Administra- | tion’s goal to get the first of their food- stuffs in the hands of Harry L. Hop- within the | week. | Pork Shipments to Start. | Pork will start the train of foodstuffs toward the lines of destitute now csti- | mated to number 3,500.000 families. Al- | ready prepared from hogs purchased by | the farm agency in its surplus-reduction program, the first carloads soon will roll into Montana. Other foodstuffs and clothing made from cotton will follow as fast as Hop- | kins completes distribution plans. Offi- | cials said the Federal outlay in the re: | lef program—without h-nc!utnnlgq coal probably will greatly exceed the | 000,000 originally estimated as the cost. George N. Peek, farm administrator, described the program as “a real attack on the dual problem of people in need of food and oversupplies on the farm.” Peek announced simultaneously anoth- er development which he termed “the most significant event since the Agri- cultural Adjustment Administration was established.” Plan Master Code. This was a pledge from spokesmen to support a master code aimed to achieve parity prices for farm products. It was given by Colby M. Chester of | New York, president of the General Foods Corporation and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Food In- dustries Advisory Board organized to assist the A. A. A. “The board pledges itself.,” Chester wrote Peek, “to use all reasonable efforts to secure from industry an active co- operation in obtaining for the farmer for his products a parity of purchasing power equivalent to that of the period August, 1909, to July, 1914, and will co- operate with the A. A. A. to that end. “Price_control to secure agricultural parity of purchasing power can be ob- tained only by agreements when binding upon both producers and processors or by the control of production and equally the control of transportation that the movement to market may be in con- sonance with the effective demand.” o Peck said a master code will be drafted and set for an early hearing. He planned also to supplement such an agreement with divisional codes under which industries would agree to pay not less than parity prices. COAL DISTRIBUTION Like agri- | $75- | for the country’s major food industries | LOANS ON COTTON | 10 BE SPREAD T0 OTHER PRODUCTS U. S. to Keep Farm Purchas- ing Power in Line With Industrial Boosts. CONTROL OF PRODUCTION HELD LOAN INSURANCE Officials Believe Plan Will Take Credit Program Out of Price- Fixing Class. (Copyright, 1933, by the Associated Press) Extension of the administration’s plan for supporting cotton prices of 10 cents a pound to other major farm products today became the immediate objective in the Government's efforts for lifting farm purchasing power | quickly to keep pace with industrial! price bocsts. | ‘The program will take the form of | a gigantic effort to place “a bottom” uvnder farm prices through extension | of credit wherever it can be definitely | coupled with production control. This was disclosed as officials of the | Agricultural Adjustment Administra- | | tion, jubilant over the cotton plan, centered their efforts on the subject | T prompt reliet for | | agriculture at the highest point in the | last three months, T P | Insurance for Loans. ! Production control is regarded by farm officials as insurance for the Gov- ernment’s loans, and as assuring an in- | fluence on the supply of a commodity 50 as to assure improvement of demand. They believe this feature will take the credit plan definitely out of the class of arbitrary price-fixing and as distinct from stabilization efforts undertaken by | the old Farm Board. . Both of these methods, they assert, | ignore excessive supply and overproduc- | tion and would be doomed to failure | because of the potential high producing | capacity of agriculture. Officials of the Farm Administration, | the Reconstruction Corporation and the Farm Credit Administration today | | were busy conferring over details of the | plan to lend Southern cotton farmers | 10 cents a pound on this year's crop, | with hope that announcement of the firnzrnm would be made in the next few ays. Some Difference of Opinion. The general plan was announcec | yesterday when only a broad -outline | had been decided upon. It was reit- erated that the 10 cents a pound would be loaned on the basis of farm prices. ! which would mean an increase of) more than a cent a pound over ex-| change prices that have prevailed for the past several days. ‘There was still some difference of opinion over whether cotton growers must agree to join in the control pro- gram for next year before the loans would be made. But it was the gen- | eral opinion today that some proviso | for participation in the plan intended | | to reduce the crop to 25,000,000 next | year would be required before a farmer could get the 10 cents a pound ad- vanced on his staple. | Some doubt existed as to whether | it was necessary for farmers who still | { hold their cotton to promise to join the | | production control prcgram before they | would be loaned 10 cents a pound in Federal funds. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said he thought so and that apparently was the understanding of President Roose- velt. But men who worked out the ar- | rangement, among them Oscar John- | | ston, finance administrator of the Farm | | Adjustment Administration, and Sen- ator Bankhead, Demccrat, of Alabama, took a contrary view. | Johnson said h ieved that the (Continiaed on Page 3, Column 4.) COTTON ADVANCES IN TRADING FLURRY Futures Show Maximum Climb of | $3.50 a Bale, but Fail to Hold All of Gain. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. September 23.—Cotton futures had maximum advances of about $3.50 a bale at the opening today in response to the Government's plan for lending 10 cents a pound to pro- d;mers in return for acreage reduc- tion. Heavy realizing induced by the initial uprush in prices brought a moderate | reaction from the top levels soon after |the opening. The distant positions | were most actively bought by traders in anticipation of benefits from the Federal program, and these had by far the widest gains. In the January, March, May and July | positions the sharp advances * erased | most of the heavy losses of the past two sessions and restored values to within a moderate distance of the week’s | highs. Opening advances ranged from $1.45 to $3.45 a bale. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa, September 23.— Agriculture, as represented by the Na- tional Farmers' Holiday Association, is code. And unless the association gets what it demands it threatens to declare a Nation-wide holiday on the marketing of their products. The farmers’ demands, outlined yes- terday when some 1,200 representatives from about 18 different States attend- ing & meeting of the holiday associ- ation, were embodied in a draft of a code which calls for: A guarantee of the cost of produc- tion of agricultural products, a - mum work day of 10 hours, setting of minimum wages by the American Fed- eration of Labor, collective 3 barring of child labor, non-interference with normal n;p ly and demand and the licensing of of farm com- lmodk.lu. A resolution for the appointment of 1 out for the Blue Eagle and an N. R. A.| FARMERS DEMAND N. R. A. CODE OR THREATEN NATIONAL STRIKE | a committee to present these terms to President Roosevelt was adopted. “If he fails to comply we will with- hold all farm products from the mar- ket,” the resolution said. General statements which prefaced the action condemned Secretary of Agriculture H. A. Wallace and the crop-reduction methods of the ad- ministration, pledged the association’s support to labor and asked labor’s co- ration, and averred that the possi- ty existed that producers might have to assume control of economic func- tions in order to assure justice. ‘The final resolution asked for an in- vestigation by the Federal Government of practices of the Chicago Board of Trade, icularly short selling. Milo 0, national president of the Holiday Association, presided over the meeting and at its close adjured mem- bers not to let their emotiogs control their actions in the event that a farm strike is called. The National Holiday Association voted a Nation-wide strike last April to material the u-l | marched down the center line. SLOW FARM PRICES AND PUBLIC WORKS SEENN.R.A. THREAT Officials Hope to Curb Spread Between Living Costs and Buying Power. ROOSEVELT TO PREVENT IMMEDIATE INFLATION Johnson Resists Labor Demands for Higher Wages and Shorter Hours in New Codes. By the Associated Press. Governmental observers of Presi- dent Roosevelt’s program for national recovery today find the chief threat to its success ‘1 N. R. A’s quickstep ahead of th> procession, while agri- cultural price; follow behind and the big cash-distributing public works project remains limping far in tha rear. Men high in the emergency organi- zations of the Government are saying now that something must be done soon to prevent such a spread between prices and purchasing power as might again freeze trade and possibly unem- ployment. What is happening, as they sce it, is that the rapid inclusicn of indus- try and trade under codes which bring higher labor costs, is increas- ing the purckasing power of too small a share of population, making tco small an inroad into the unemployea army while at the same time making necessary higher prices for the goods which everybody, including the farmer, must have. Against Inflation Now. ‘The President is represented by in- formed sources as determined that currency inflation shall not be r sorted to for the present. He is con- centrating on expanding credit and is studying approaches to capital ex- penditures. With public works slowed down be- cause of countless difficultics, Mr. Roose- velt's assistants have been looking at possibilities not only of breaking through this jam but of developing spending by railroads and other big users of steel and heavy materials for new equipment. But the central effort is to get money flowing out from banks directly or through Goverrment aid and expenditures. Just as President Roosevelt is holdir- back from currency inflation, Hugh S Johnson is refusing labor urgings tha! he require higher wages and shorter working hours in industrial codes. Johnson is represented as viewing the long. = program of revising Ameri- can industrial methods through the co- operative codes. Plans Reconstruction. Already he has set in motion a plan for reconstruction of the N. R. A. into a lasting industrial control administra- tion. Tentatively, he is projecting an idea of placing a key man as adminis- trator over each big group of related in- dustries The “master codes,” which now are being framed to include as many as a dozen or more miscellaneous industries or trades, are just one step in this consolidation. Johnson is reported to believe N. R. A’s present hold on the country's b ness is firm, but is troubled by the growing friction between capital and union labor. The crux of the battle is section Ta of the industrial law—the declaration that workers have the right to bargain collectively through representatives of their own chcosing and that their em- ployers shall not seek to intimidate them in any way. Numerous attempts have been made by industry to qualify that language by merit clauses permitting the handling of labor on an efficiency rather than union basis. Labor has striven ener- getically to make the section mean eventually a clcsed shop—no union card, no job. Applies Equally to All The administration in past codeslpn a man doesn't want to join a union. noth- ing shall compel him: if he does want to, no one shall stop him. Only last night President Roosevelt in approving the momentous agreement by which producers of 70 per cent of America’s soft coal signed to deal with the United Mine Workers after John L. Lewis had signed up 400,000 of their | men, made the condition that all of its terms should apply to non-union men or members of other unions equally with Lewis’ miners, and that the free- dom guaranteed by 7a should stay untouched. It remained to be seen, in the light of this act, whether Lewis would hold the entire army of new recruits. Some observers believed this offered a first test of union power in a situa- tion which presents the Government as (Continued on INSULL EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS DELAYED Legation’s Translation of Neces- sary Documents Refused by Greek Foreign Ministry. By the Assoclated Press. ATHENS, Greece, September 23— delay has been caused in the extra= dition proceedings against Samuel In= sull, former Chicago utilities operator, by the refusal of the ministry of jus- tice to accept the American legation's translation of documents necessary in the case. The foreign ministry is translating over again all of the papers, and it will be*several days before the next step in the case is taken. When the trans- lations are completed the papers will be_sent to the ministry of justice. Insull is wanted in the United States to answer to a charge of violating the bankruptcy laws. _ MOLLISONS HOP MONDAY Amy Johnson and Husband Hope to Set Record on Bagdad Flight. TORONTO, Ontario, September 23 (#).—The Mollisons, James and Amy, who flew the Atlantic east to west, will be ready Monx for the take-off of their projected ht to Bagdad, Iraq, they said today. ‘They hope to establish a new distance vecord. .' Page 2, Column 6)