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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, slightly colder tonight; tomor- row partly cloudy; moderate north and ‘Temperatures—High- resterday; lowest, northeast winds. est, 63, at 3:30 p.m. ye 41, at 4:00 am. today. Full report on page A-14. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 12 & 13 No: 32,@87. Entered as secol post office, Washington, nd class matter D. C. ch ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1933—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. #» - LITVINOFF FEELS RELATIONS CAN BE FIXEDINHALF HOUR Soviet Commissar Breaks Self-Imposed Pledge in Talk With Reporters. REFUSES TO TELL NAME OF SHIP HE WILL TAKE Would Elude Interviewers at Sea and Save Press Expense, He Says. Useless B~ the Associated Press. BERLIN, October 28 —Russo-Amer- jcan relations can be re-established within a half-hour, so far as Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet foreign commissar, is concerned. Deluged with requests of American correspondents to receive them, Litvin- off broke his self-imposed pledge not to talk en route to Washington for dis- cussions with President Roosevelt. He met them at the Soviet embassy a few hours after his arrival here by train from Warsaw. Shaking hands all around and beam- ing his accustomed smile, Litvinoff said, +I know you expect me to say some- thing, but that’s impossible at present. “Naturally, I am tremendously pleased at the cordial manner in which the American press of all shades greets the impending conference with Mr. Roose- velt and I hope this good-will con- tinues.” Name of Ship Kept Secret. He parried every attempt to elicit the secret of when he will depart from Berlin or what ship he will take for the United States, saying he did not know. “There’s much apparent mystery ." he went on a er, “T1l tell you why I don’t say what ship I am taking. That would naturally lead to yourselves or your colleagues taking passage on the same boat. “Their mission naturally would be to get me to talk, but as I can’t say Newly Mined Gold Pours Into Mints As Price Goes Up “Bonus” of Three Quar- ters of Million Is Paid on One Consignment. | By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, October 28— Newly-mined gold, made more precious by price advances, piled up in the United States mint here today as em- ployes struggled to keep pace with the influx. The “gold rush” swelled to a high ‘wave, said Mint Supt. Peter J. Hag- gerty, after he received instructions yesterday to accept Government mar- ket consignments. Haggerty said the wave brought in | approximately 70,000 ounces at the Government's price for the day of $31.76. The largest consignment, 66,- 250 ounces from the Benquet Consoli- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) GRAF DUETOFLY - OVER CITY TODAY Navy Department Advised Ship Will Arrive Early This Afternoon. BULLET! HAGERSTOWN, Md., October 28 § {#).—The Graf Zeppelin, headed in & southeasterly direction, passed over this city at 12:42 p.m. (Eastern dated Mining Co. in_the Philippine | STEEL COMPANIES FIXED RAIL PRICES, EASTMAN CHARGES Ordered to Cut Rate to $35 a Ton or Submit Cost Dzla. ROADS TO GET NO LOANS OTHERWISE, HE WARNS | Co-ordinator Speaks for President. Bases Allegations on Identical Date of Letters, By the Associated Press. The four great steel companies today were accused bluntly by the administra- tion of collusion in fixing the price of first-class steel rails for railroads for | which funds were to be advanced by the | Public Works Board to provide employ- | ment. The companies were told in strong terms that they must reduce to $35 a ton or submit their books for inspection of Government accountants. SIMPLY Otherwise, Joseph B. Eastman, co- ordinator of transportation, speaking for | President Roosevelt, sald the Govern- | ment would refuse to advance money to | the more than 50 railroads which have | signified their need of a total of about 800.000 tons of rail. The steel companies, responding to| a letter from Eastman written after the | executives had conferred with the Presi- standard time) today. The Graf Zeppfin, world’s most suc- | | cesstul dirigible, s expected to pay her | second visit to the Capital early this | |afternoon on the way home from Ak-| | Ton, Ohio, to Priedrichshafen, Ger- | many. E | Not since 1928, when she was com- | pleting her first transatlantic crossing after fighting ocean storms which ripped one of her lateral fins, has the German airship been seen in the Cap- ital, During the five years since that flight | |the Graf has made 42 iransuceanic | |fixed & base price of $37.75 a ton for | the fair practices code authorit; | anything I want to spare my journal- |flights, has girdled the globe and has| istic friends the disappointment of in- | crossed the Equator 35 times. She has curring expense for nothing.” | “Of course, if some one happens to be on the same boat, I cannot help lt.i but I don't want to be the party to lead him into certain disappointment.” | ‘Why Anticipate? He Asks. ‘To a barrage of questlons as to the problems to be discussed with Presi- | dent Roosevelt and the effect of recog- nition upon Russia’s economic rela- tions to other nations, Litvinoff said: “As far as I am ¢oncerned, every- thing could be settled in a half hour.” Then, with a smile, he added: “You newspaper men always want to anticipate future events. We diplomats are afraid of knowing a future we don't want to know. [ “Why anticipate?” | After a pause, he summed up the ef- | fect of recognition, however, by saying | that “every new relationship estab- | lished between two nations must to| some degree affect the relations of all| other countries.” | To a specific question as to whether, | for example, there would be & new dis- | tribution of Russian orders for goods, | Litvinoff said “that is something to be decided Jater.” Denies Envoy Has Been Chosen. Litvinoff denied reports that the choice of the first Russian Ambassador | to the Wnited States already had been | made, saying. “all speculation concern- | ing that in the press has been wrong. Of Senator William G. McAdoo's re- | cent visit in Russia, he insisted “Mr. | McAdoo visited me in a purely personal mfifv’géfl expressed the opinion that | one week in America ought to be | enough to accomplish his mission. | Finding it impossible to elicit any- | thing further from him concerning America, the correspondents then posed‘ Qquestions regarding Russo-German re- lations. “I am to see Von Neurath (German foreign minister) today,” Litvinoff said. «I always see him when passing through Germany. German Situation Discussed. “The conflict regarding newspaper correspondents will, I expect, be straightened out shortly.” (When Russian newspaper corre- spondents recently were dismissed from Germany, the Soviet government Te-| taliated in Kind against German news- paper men in Moscow.) Germany's Withdrawal from the League, he said, did not affect Russo- German relations. g “We didn't expect Germany's or even | the League, nor do we now object to | 's resignation. CroThe question “does Germany's withdrawal, following upon Japan's and | coupled with the non-participation of the United States and Russia in the League seal the League's doom?” Lit- vinoff with a twinkle in his eye, said: “T don't know what the League thinks st Plans Departure Today. The British embassy here heard Lit- vinoff plans to cross the Atlantic on an CAmerican liner, probably the Man- hattan, sailing from Le Havre, France. This was without confirmation from v] s the Ruslan e el o @Y, Tho cmbassy said oniy that he would leave today for Cherbourg. “There is no American boat at pres- of ate, but we y vhat too I Is{someR Ty German and French fers from Italian, lines.” RESIGNS CHINESE POST e Finance Minister's Request Is Not Expected to Be Accepted. HAN( . October 28 (P).—T. V. s:;ng. tfiggitmnll government’s min- ister of finance, tendered his resigna- tion today. Tt was understood to have resulted from mounting financial difficulties. The government was not expected to accept. . ‘Wales Has Good Night. NINGDALE, England, October 28 l?fiv—}'ll'he Prince of Wales, who has not been in the best of health at his coun- try home here. passed a good night and today his cold as said to be pursuing « normal cours now approximately 400,000 miles of flying to her credit and still boasts her original engines and equipment. The Navy Department has been ad- vised that the Graf will fly over Wash- ington about 2 p.m. The German airship was flown to this country to visit the Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago. She landed at Chicago only long enough to land passengers and mail and take | on mail for the return flight. GRAF LEAVES AKRON. 24 Passengers Aboard as Airship Starts Homeward Flight, AKRON, Ohio, October 28 (/).—The Graf Zeppelin, veteran of many trans- atlantic crossings, took off from the Goodyear Zeppelin dock at 8:55 am. (Eastern standard time) today, on her | return flight to Germany. | The official list of 24 passengers mak- ing the return trip follows: | Col. Charles E. Bartley, attorney, of Chicago. and George Willens, manufac- turer, of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. John | Bolten of Boston, Mass.: Mrs. Hector | Carveth and her daughter, Miss Nancy | Page Carveth of Niagara Falls, N. Y.; | Hermann Doehner of Mexico City, Wil liam Graf of New York, Mrs. Tressa Jane Repas Maroney, Akron newspnper‘ woman; Henry Reichhold, manufa turer, of Detroit; Charles Ruzicka, Bi timore attorney; Arthur C. Stifel, man- ufacturer, of Wheeling, W. Va. and ! Mrs. Stifel; George D'Utassey of Cedar- hurst, Long Island, N. Y., and Baron J. Henry von Schroeder, banker, of Hamburg, Germany. U. S. Officer Aboard. Mrs, Peter Holland and Richard Mil lard_Genius, jr.. both of Chicago: Rob- | ert Wilson, blimp pilot of Akron, and | Comdr, Zeno Wicks, of the Goodyear- Zeppelin Corporation, Akron. Lieut. Comdr. Joachim Briethaupt of the German air ministry, Berlin; Dr. Harold Dietrich, German radio official; Dr. Walter Haumann, surgeon, of Hat- tingen, Germany, and Capt. Wilhelm Neimann of Berlin. At the invitation of Dr. Eckencr, Lieut. Comdr, Edwin F. Cochrane cf L.?kehu!st, N. J, also is making the trip. Across the Eastern part of the United | States and over the Atlantic to Seville, | Spain, and her home port in Germany | lay the course of the giant airship, vet- | | eran” of half a hundred ocean cross- | ‘Turkey’s—or closest friends—entry into | = gs. Dr. Hugo Eckener, the genial, Dortly‘ —and _ always _ cautious—commander, | who brought the 776-foot airliner to | the United States for a visit to the Chicago Century of Progress Exposi-| tlon, indicated the ship would take a| course due east from Akron. | The travelers will reach Seville on Monday, and Friedrichshafen, the home | port, Tuesday. | |in accord with this understanding dent Secretary Ickes and Eastman, all | first-quality rails. The base price origi- nally had been approximately $40. Prices Filed With Institute. ‘The price schedules all were filed with the American Iron and Steel Institute, | The letter from the United States Steel Corporation said fts counsel ad- vised it would be a violation of the steel code to quote a price not in accordance | with the flled base price. Similar as- sertions were made in letters from other companies. All the letters and telegrams bore the date of October 20. Referring to this in his letter written jointly to Myron | C. Taylor, chairman of the United States | Steel Corporation; Eugene F. Grace, | president of the Bethlehem Steel Cor- | poration: L. E. Block, chairman of the | Inland Steel Corporation, and Arthur Roceder, receiver for the Colorado Flue & Iron Co., Eastman asserted that: “The facts that these letters bear a common date, that they name an iden- tical price for first-quality rail, fob.| mill, and that this price is the odd fig- | ure of $37.75, point unmistakably to the ! | conclusion that the letters were the re- | sult of consultation and collusior.” Declares Understanding Violated. | Eastman recalled that in his letter | of October 3, asking competitive bids, he | had stated that at a conference with | President Roosevelt an agreement had been made that prices would be ar- rived at independently and added: “Clearly what has been done is not | | Moreover, there is nothing in the code | | of fair competition which made neces- | sary such a deviation from this under- | standing.” Eastman made public letters from gxecutives of the various steel corpora- ions. One from W. A. Irvin, president of | the United States Steel Corporation, | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) | FIREMAN IS ACCUSED OF ATTACKING BOYi Lieut. Charles W. Rice Charged in Warrant With Breaking Lad's Jaw. | | Lieut. Charles W. Rice, No. 22 Engine | Company, was charged with attacking a 13-year-old boy and breaking his jaw in a warrant issued today by As- sistant United States Attorney Milford Schwartz. The warrant was sworn out by the lad’s father, Harry Smith, propretor of | the a delicatessen at 4100 Georgia avenue, day night in an alley in the rear of Rice's home, 922 Farragut street. The boy’s mother said: “My son, Nathiel, and two other boys were taking a short cut through the alley on their way to the home of a playmate. The man accused them of stealing some bricks that belonged to him and he grabbed one of the boys. “My son attempted to intervene and the man hit him. We had him X-rayed at Emergency Hospital and were told his jaw had been fractured in two laces.” Rice, off duty today, could not be rgnched at his home. Hic wife sald she knew nothing of the incident. | INJURED POLICEMAN TO RECEIVE COMPENSATION DURING ABSENCE Park Policeman Jerome B. Lawler, jr., | whose reorganization status as a tem. | " | porary Government employe barred him | from recelving compensation while in- | capacitated by injuries received in line of duty, is back on the permanent mlls“ of the Interior Department, it was an- nounced today. Lawler, who is recovering from a| broken leg and other injuries received | when his motorcycle collided with I‘\ two-ton truck, was listed as a perma- nent employe by Secretary Ickes, “with the express approval of President Roosevelt,” it was stated. The officer, who has been convalescing | tion at his home, 2100 N street, since his| discharge from Emergency Hospital, was hurt shortly before the question of temporary or permanent status arose. Temporary status did not allow for any sick leave, but the new ruling entitles him to leave with pay. Interior Department officials today were still puzzled over whether Law- ler’s permanent appointment dates back to October 1. President Roosevelt ap- proved Lawler's permanent appointment Thursday. If he is not entitled to leave with pay back to October 1, the police- man will lose more than three weeks' salary. Indications were that the ques- H tion might have to be threshed out the department's legal authorities. Lawler was injured on September 27. and he and his colleagues o October I Were *afi” ‘made temporary employes, pending further savings by their Inte- rior Department Bureau, to satisfy economy requirements of Director Douglas of the Bureau of the Budget. A story in The Star, calling attention to Officer Lawler's plight—injured in the line of duty, but compelled to be away from his duties without receiving pay—was called to the attention of Secretary Ickes, who looked into the situation and today took remedial ac- Now that Officer Lawler is the sole United States park policeman on the permanent list, his colleagues on the force are wonder where they stand. They sald today that should they be injured in line of duty, they too. would lose pay, having no sick leave, because they are temporary employes. Officer M. A. Rainey, another park policeman, gassed overseas during the World War, has recently been off duty with a heavy cold, which the doctors said threatened to turn into pneumonia. Unable to lose pay further, Officer Rainey returned to duty against the advise of his superior, 0.5 OFFICIALS DEN ™ | rates in the STICKING IN HIS SHELL! | | | | | CODES CUT' TRADE | Johnson and Wallace Takel’ Issue With Report of Reserve Board. | BULLETIN. | The Naval Gun Factory at the | ‘Washington Navy Department today was allocated $566,426 for guns, mounts, fuses, cartridge cases and aviation ordnance material out of the Navy's public works allotment by Acting Secretary of the Navy | Henry L. Roosevelt. By the Associated Press, Hugh S. Johnson, the industrial ad- ministrator, and Secretary of Agricul- ture Wallace joined today in denying a report by the Federal Reserve Board in its monthly bulletin that industrial ac- | | tivity has slackened noticeably in indus- tries in which processing taxes or codes have become effective recently. The statement of the Federal Reserve Board which drew the fire of N. R. A.| and the Farm Administration was: “The decline in industrial activity during the past two months has come, in large measure, in the industries in which expansion had been most rapid. It has also been marked in industries in which processing taxes or codes have become effective recently. { Gen. Johnson replied quickly with a statement that “practically every major industry hes been operating under a code since August,” and that “with the exception of the steel industry, every re- port we have received from major i dustries shows a definite upward trend.’ Quotes Goldenweiser. “I have been advised by Mr, Golden- weiser of the Federal Reserve Board,” Johnson added. “that the statement in the current builetin of the board, that a decline ‘has also been marked in in- | dustries in which processing taxes or codes have become eflective recently’ was inadvertent. N. R. A, of course, | has nothing to do with processing taxes | but, as to the effect of codes, the situa- | tion is the reverse of that pictured by the board's statement.” Johnson said he had talked by tele- phone with E. A. Goldenweiser, research director of the Reserve Board. Secretary Wallace said: “The situation is that, in efforts to | anticipate processing taxes so as to avoid payment while possible, mills in | both fiour and textile industries enor- | mously increased their activity before | wheat and cotton taxes and the in- | | creased wage course under N.R. A. went | |into eftect. Then, when the taxes and | hnigher wages became effective, mills | slowed down and in some instances | blamed the processing taxes for inac- | tivity really due to their efforts to beat | e ax " The Federal Reserve said the fall in | e oo States Nava Als Station at| %ho said the assault occurred Thurs. | Dusiness had not affected employment and wages, both of which had contin- | ued to increase although industrial pro- duction was dropping. ¥ Business Yolume Gains, “For the past two months, there has been a reaction in industry from the exceptionally rapid expansion of activ- ity during the Spring and early Sum- mer months,” the board said. “Not- withstanding this reaction, business was in considerably larger volume in August and September than in March. “At the time of the banking holiday, industrial activity was close to the low- est level of the depression. Almost im- mediately after the reopening of the banks there was an increase in ac- “The increase was accelerated by the prospects of increased costs and price advances as the result of processing taxes and code provisions and also by anticipation of inflation. In particu- lar, industries making semi - finished storable goods were influenced by these yrospects: tes P : some industries, notably tex- tiles and s hoes, advanced production carly Summer to the nign- est levels on record.” e board said commodity bean “Talty “stable” since’ Juiy. after their rapid advance of the Spring and early Summer. Higher crop prices, it added, would increase the farmer’s in- come for the year by more than one billion, although the level would still be below that of other recent years. “Employment and income of wage earners have increased materially since last Spring, and this increase has con- tinued in August and early September, when industrial output showed a de- crease,” the report said. “The continued increase in numbers of workers and in their earnings in August and September. while produc- tion in some basic industries was de- clining, is partly statistical, reflecting differences in report dates. It is chief- ly, however, a reflection of the in- crease in wage rates, the decline i3 hours and the spreading of work. “The Bureau of Labor Statistics re- ported an increase in average hourly earnings of factory workers from 42.7 cents an hour in early July to 485 cents in early August, while the av- erage hours work decreased from 42.3 to 386." [ 4 | lar number one. July 23: interpretation | Sheriff Gets Order To “Shoot to Kill” Disturbers of Body Judge O’Dunne Refuses to Permit Attorney to Arrange Funeral. Bs the Assoctated Press. BALTIMORE, October 28 —Judge Eugene O'Dunne today refused to per- mit the transfer of Euel Lee’s body to New York and gave the Baltimore City sheriff orders to shoot to kill in case of interference with burial of the col- ored man. Lee was hanged Thursday night for murder of an Eastern Shore farmer. (Continued on Ps Column 8.) WEE IS WARNED Johnson Wires Mayoralty Race Candidate After Hearing Complaint. By the Assoclated Press. In a telegram to Joseph V. McKee. candidate for mayor of New York City, Administrator Hugh S. Johnson said today that use of the N. R. A. insignia on political posters “is unauthorized.” | It resulted from complaints against McKee displaying the Blue Eagle and charging he was taking unfair ad- vantage of the Roosevelt recovery pro- gram by calling himself the “recovery” candidate. Johnson’s message read: “The use of N. R. A. insignia or let- ters on a political poster in such manner as to tend to identify it with| a particular political faction is unau- | thorized and contrary to N. R. A. circu- of September 27; executive order of | October 14, and regulation of Octo- | ber 17. “HUGH S. JOHNSON.” SENDS TWO PROTESTS. Col. House, at White House, Also Gets Wire From La Guardia. NEW YORK, October 28 () —Fior- ello H. La Guardia, fusion candidate for mayor of New York City, sought today | to take the “recovery” out of Joseph | V. McKee's recovery party clmpl\gni literature. He lodged vrotests with Gen. Hugh S. Jonnson and the White House at Washington against what he_charged was the unlawful use of the N. R. A. Blue Eagle and the initials of the re-| covery administration by McKee. his | rival for mayor, and James J. Hoey, | McKee's running mate for barough president of Manhattan. In his protest, wired to Col. Lomis M. Howe, the President's secretary, and to Gen. Johnson, La Guardia objected “against the use of the natlonal recov- ery symbols for outright political pur- poses and the patent attempt to mislead the people by imlying that the National Recovery Administration is linked with the recovery party. Posters Show Blue Eagles. The fusion party’s anger grew out of distribution by McKee supporters of campaign posters bearing two N. R. A. Blue Eagles and the letters “N. R. A.” in_bold-face type The letters initialed these slogans: “Now 1s the time for all good citizens 10 stand by the President,” “Roosevell, Lehman, McKee and the flag,” and “all it is calling the country | g ‘save the City of “I am confident,” La Guardia said. “that Gen. Johnson and the adminis- tration will not permit such a brazen exploftation of an émblem that has become dear to the hearts of al: Amer- “As an American 1 resent the drap- (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) l Guide for Readers l Amusements Churches Comics Features Financial ..... Lost and Fount .A-9 veee A-10-11 ST00M000 SHALL - PROFTFORWIGGN |Stock Operations Through Personal - Gorporations Heavy, Say Probers. By the Associated Press. Albert H. Wiggin's $10.000,000 profit from trading in Chase National Bank stock while he headed the institution was said today by Senate investigators to represent only a small part of his total gains from stock operations through personal corporations. during the five-year period from 1927 to 1932, from transactions in other se- | curities than bank stock. NTTTDUSENR A 'l"hrl)l'x:l.s"ru| will offer evidence to show oW come tax was reduced by handling his :lpenunm through a se- ries of personal or family corporations. Afterward, the investigators will cali upon W. W. Aldrich, president of the bank, who jumped into the proceedings yesterday a warm repudiation of the bank's operations under Wiggin's leadership. Pecora Draws Statement. Ferdinand Pecora, committee counse), had just finished presenting figures showing Wiggin's huge personal profits from trading in the bank stock at the | same time the bank's affiliate was par- | ticipating in pools or trading accounts in it, when the tall, austere appearing ; Aldrich leaped to his feet to say “the present management of the bank * * * x'sm-bmluuly opposed to such transac- The only evening paper in Washington with the - Associated Press news service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 116,424 TWO CENTS. FORD’S N. R. A. STAND MAY LEAD TO COURT TEST OF LEGISLATION Roosevelt Backs Johnson in De- termination to Prosecute Violators of Act. UP) Means Associated Pr ADMINISTRATOR IS CHARGED WITH TALKING LIKE DICTATOR Company Denies Law Violation and De- clares Johnson Is Boycotting 5,300 Signers of Code. By the Assoclated Press. A stern decision to prosecute conspicuous violators appears to have supplanted N. R. A.’s long exercised care to shelter its industrial program from court attack. From the signing of the industrial law until now, Hugh 8. Johnson has picked a course calculated to lead around the pitfalls of legal action. Attempts at enforcement have been mild, with a clearly-indicated policy that an easy attitude would bring most results in the first objective of getting American industry and trade under codes. But yesterday's outright promise of prosecution, if and when Henry Ford should be found to be violating the automobile code, | signaled a new readiness to face a constitutional test of the industrial law. This determination, coupled with a rigorous exclusion of Ford | from Government contracts, was backed by President Roosevelt. It also was accompanied by this statement from Johnson in | regard to another code: “That's all right, we are not afraid of | anybody taking anything to court.” ‘White House Impatient. lmClose observers saw two essentlal factors underlying the new al ude. N. R. A. had “snatched” the Blue Eagle—to use the current N. R. A. slang—from a road house, a market, a little shop headed for bnnkru}ncy and a beauty parlor. Johnson was disturbed at this haul of small fry. He is _known to feel that after all the promises that chiselers would be disciplined, he could not face the public so long as any big and conspicuous firm or group challenged the new order. This feeling applies to Ford. Even more important has been a mounting impatience at the White House with the laxity of control in the industrial program. It led to the country-wide compliance machine now created. President Roosevelt’s determination that, barring interference The investigators were ready to pre- by the controller general, the Government would not buy products sent, when the hearings resume Tues- from Ford or any other manufacturer not under N. R. A, was viewed day, evidence of large profits to Wiggin as sealing the administration’s attitude on discipline. 1.5, 60D JUWPS AS BRITSH DROP Administration Places Do- mestic Quotation at New f High of $31.82. By the Associated Press. In spite of a decline in the London |gold price, the administration today 3 Johnson said the same, adding that Edsel Ford “has publicly stated that he was not in sympathy with the code and he would never put into effect any- | thing that looked toward collective bar- gaining.” Ford Cites Law Compliance. The Ford Motor Co. promptly replied it “observes the law and exceeds it in | all its real recovery features,” when | Johnson told the press he would turn a “clear-cut” violation of the code over to the Attorney General. Submission of employment statistics to the Natlonal Automobile Chamber of Commerce—the motor code authority— \;:f likely to afford a clear-cut Ford | _There is no deadline for submission | of these employment statistics, but | N. R. A. is taking steps to obtain cate= | gorical assertions from all manufactur- | ers within a week or 10 days that they :dD or do not intend to submit the fig- u res. None of the big ones has yet had The bank president's statement was P'2c°d the domestic quotation at a new | time to do so, but early in yesterday’s spontaneous, and apparently inspired | high of $31.82, 6 cents an ounce above eXchange of statements between the by surprise at the committee's disclosure that Wiggin made more than $10,000.000 while the Metpotan Corporation, & sub- sidiary of the Chase Securities Corpora- tion. had engaged in a series of pools in the stock with a total gain of only $156,000 “As long as I have anything to do 4 wita the management.” Aldrich added. “the market in Chase stock will not be an artificial one.” Apparently carried further than he intended by his emotion, Aldrich later amended his Jast sentence to read that as long as he was in charge “the market in Chase stock shall not be affected by the operations of trading accounts by the affiliates of the bank.” The heavy-set Wiggin sat crouched i1 the witness chair, unsmiling, as Al- drich stood almost at his elbow repudi- ating his practices. The two men have assoclated with each other very little du;iz she long. drawn-out hearings. re the hearing recessed for the | week end. Wiggin read a prepared state- | ment to the committee about operations | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) BARKING DOG' THWARTS HOLD-UP AT BEER PLANT By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 28.—A barking dog thwarted an attempted hold-up and inadvertently was the cause of one Teputed bandit being in a hospital today with bullet wounds in his foot and knee. It all came about last night when Policeman Martin Walski, leaving his home on his way to work, was attracted by the dog's barking at the rear of a beer distributing plant. Seeing some men near the scene he thought they were playing with the L. As Policeman Walski arrived at the scene three gunmen engaged in robbing two drivers for the beer agency cov- ered him. But, before they could shoot his gun and blazed away, wounding one and routing the others. | yesteraay. The London figure dropped from $31.10 yesterday to $30.57 at the close there today, a decline of 53 cents. While yesterday's domestic price of |$31.76 was 66 cents above the world | figures, today's was $1.25 above. Prosecutes Hoarders. | The administration is accompanying | its purchase of new gold with a series | of prosecutions aimed at the last of the | gold hoarders. 5 | Coincidently, it is taking rigorous | precautions to prevent violators of | President Roosevelt’s order that gold be turned over to the Government creased price offered for gold fresh from the mines. Attorney General Cummings has & list of 44 known hoarders, all who re- main of an initial roster numbering more than 5000. The 44 hold about $500,000 worth of gold, while the 5,000 Teld'$40,000,000. The 44 have now been classed &s recalcitrants. District attorneys through- out the country have been supplied with their names and all necessary informa- prosecution_as quickly as possible and court suits have begun. i To prevent the new gold price ‘from working to the advantage of the hoarders, the 1 ints have been instruct- ed to reject any consignments which they have reason to believe is not fresh from the mines and to notify officials for prompt action against the person or persons offering the metal. The new gold price is belng fixed daily at the Treasury. The first price set was $31.96. against a London quota- tion of $31.09; the second was $31.54, against $31.06, and the third, yesterday, was $31.76, against $31.10. The actual London figure in British currency has ranged successively high- er. From 130 shillings and 1 penny (Continued on Page 2, column 5.) AUTOPSY ON HORSE AT LAUREL DISCLOSES NO Special Dispatch to The Star. LAUREL, Md, October 28—An autopsy performed today on Rapscal- lion, the 3-year-old gelding that fell dead in the seventh race at Laurel Park yesterday, failed to produce any super- ficial evidence of “doping,” according to Dr. Henry J. McCarthy, veterinarian representing the Maryland Racing Com- mission. Dr. McCarthy said the au- topsy had disclosed & lung hemorrhage. The head and heart of the horse were turned over to a Federal narcotic agent, who took them at once to the Depart- ment of Agriculture for examination by chemists. Other samples were sent to a firm of chemists in Baltimore for superficial indication that narcotics had been used on Rapscallion,” Dr. McCar- & TRACE OF DOPE thy said. “I will be surprised if the chemical examination finds that nar- cotics were used.” The autopsy was performed in the presence of racing officials and nar- cotic agents. John L. McKnight, owner of the horse, is in New York, but is expected to return to Laurel to- night. He sent a_tele that he welcomed the investigation. The autopsy was ordered by Jervis Spencer, jr., chairman of the Racing Commission, to whether the horse had been under the influence of drugs. Harry Anslinger, Pederal narcotic commissioner, also had asked for an immediate autopsy and instructed narcotic agents to join in the investigation. After ha ‘caused s five-minute l”nun"fl?'ocmldm not get him in the No. 2 (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) from finding a way of getting the in-| tion, They were instructed to institute | | Ford sopkesman and Johnson there were strong, unofficial intimations at Dear- born that Ford jntended to turn his in. Besides promising prosecution in case | Ford did not do so, Johnson voiced an | opinion, later disclosed to be held by | the President as well, that Ford was | not now eligible for the Government | contracts because the only expressions | on compliance from the manufacturer which had reached Washington were negative or non-committal. The White | House view was that Ford dealers also |*were barred and would get no contracts | unless the controller general, responsi- ble only to Congress, interfered with the bid letéing. He might rule that con- | tracts must be let to the low bidder, irrespective of the N. R. A. Recalls Edsel Ford's Statement. | Johnson based his reasoning, he said, | on a statement made to him by Edsel Ford when he was in Detroit last Sum- mer “that they would never consent to any collective bargaining.” As for the bid of a Ford dealer on & Civillan Conservation Corps contract, Johnson said: “I have taken the position that a great big billion-dollar manufacturer cannot hide behind a $10,000 company.” “Johnson is mot boycotting us,” the Ford Motor Co. retorted. “He is boye cotting 5,300 American manufacturers who co-operage with Johnson. Not only has Johnson attempted a grave injus- tice upon a law-abiding American in- dustry. he also has assumed to talk like ; dictator and the Supreme Court com- The Ford statement referred to 5,300 industries whose products Ford uses. ‘The company said the forest conser- vation bid was submitted by a dealer, not by the company. It said rejection of the bid will charge $200,000 to the taxpayer, and charged Johnson with at- tempting “a grave in?x.suce upon a law= abiding American industry.” It was less than half an hour after Johnson’s _press conference yesterday ‘when unofficial came from indications Detroit that Ford would deliver the fig- ures on request of N. This was (Continued on Paj Column 8) EXECUTION OF OFFICERS IN ARMY PLOT DENIED Mexican War Department Holds 12 as It Probes Alleged Conspiracy to Overthrow Superiors. By the Associated Press. MEXICO, D. F, October 28.—Re- ports that several army officers had been executed in connection with an alleged plot to seize control of the army were denied officlally today. De'nhl: came from both the war de- superior officers. Another version was that the sup- posed ent was aimed at the gov~ ernment of President Abelardo Rods Tiguez, [ e