Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) _ Partly cloudy today and tomorrow. slowly rising temperature; gentle north- east winds. Tempertures—Highest, 56, at 'l’ep m. yesterday; lowest, 41, at 4 a.m. yester Full report on Page A-9. (P) Means Associated No. 1,493—No. 688. Press. second cl Washin; Entered a: matter post office, n, D G he HINGTON, D. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION C., SUNDAY MORN NG, OCTOBER 29, 1933— Sundy St 100 PAGES. * N.R.A. PROMULGATES BASIS FOR ASSURING FAIR TRADE; STEEL ULTIMATUM ISSUED o> * ProPosals Made on Six Points of Study. RETAIL CODE IS INTERPRETED Roosevell 1o Parley on Mine Situation Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. The National Recovery Admin- | istration went on yesterday to- ward its mass mobilization of in- Henry Fletcher Joins With Ford In N. R. A, Battle Former AmbassadorFlays ‘ Compulsion, Boycott, Discrimination. By the Associated Press. GREENCASTLE, Pa, October 28— Henry P. Fletcher, former Ambassador to Belgium. Mexico and Italy. lined up with Henry Ford today in his differences | | With the National Recovery Administra- | | tion. He wired: | | “I trust the action-of your company may make it possible for the American people to find out how far Gen. John- son and the administration may go in their effort to control or intimidate law- | abiding citizens. | | “Our people have shown a sincere and unselfish desire to co-operate with the dustry by proposing a way for all recovery efforts of the administration. trades to agree upon banishing No government has had such sponta- unfair competitive practices. Simultaneously, to get into op- eration tomorrow morning the re- | neous, unbiased and unpartisan support | as has been given this administration. “But when the Government itself | threatens to resort to compulsion. dis- tail code, its biggest single one, | crimination and boycott, it is time for Eastman Senses Collu-*on in Rail Bids “$35 PER TON OR OPEN BOOKS” Loans to B; Used as Weapons for Compliance. By the Associated Press. In a brusque ultimatum to America’'s steel industry to lower its rail prices to $35 a ton or open its books on costs, the administra- tion moved yesterday to protect a segment of its recovery program, | the creation of jobs for idle rail- | way workers. To THERE OUGHT AGAINST_HOGGIN’ ALL THE BEA CODE seotLigut! \ = T e+ r “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to city and suburban homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier serv- ice. Phone National 5000 to start delivery. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON SARRAUT CABINET | EXPECTEDTO SHUN DEBTS AT PRESENT “Policy of Watchful Waiting” for Britain to Break Ice Is Looked For, THIRD FRENCH DEFAULT DECEMBER 15 PREDICTED $29,900,928 Will Be Due to United States—Arms Concessions to Germany Held at End. By the Associated press. PARIS, October 28—The new gov- ernment of Premier Albert Surraut, which faces the Chamber of Deputies for the first time November 3, is ex- pected by officials to ignore the Ameri- can war debt and follow & “policy of watchful waiting,” with the hope that the British will break the ice. EN CENTS ELSEWHERE GHANGE IN TARIFF COMMISSION URGED UPON WHITE HOUSE Hull, Woodin and Roper Sign Report Proposing Revision of Body’s Work., Ly AND smsmtnsl PERSONNEL AND POLICY TOUCHED IN PROPOSALS | Agency Held Vitally Useful in Re- covery Program and in Ex- ports' Upbuilding. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Recommendations for the strengthe | ening and to some extent the revampe ing of the United States Tariff Come mission have been laid before Presie dent Roosevelt by the heads of thres | executive departments. Joining in the report are Secretary A third Prench default December 15, Hull of the State Department, Secre- when $22,200,928 will be due, was pre- | taTy Woodin of the Treasury Depart- dicted today by officials close to the ment and Secretary Roper of the De= partment of Commerce. Some of the premier, | The policies of former Premier Edou- ] members of the Tariff Commission wers ard Daladier, whose defeat last Tues- consulted in regard to the report which day was followed by tl ~ formation of | has now been transmitted to the Presi- N. R. A. issued a series of inter- |self-respecting Americans to assert their pretations, reduced to simplest inalienable right nx‘xd find out if these terms so that every storekeeper rights still surv Plan to Turn Oklahoma Area | Through Joseph B. Eastman, | Federal railroad co-ordinator, the | MKEE DENIES USE might get the requirements of the compact straight without delay. The next N. R. A. problem, the captive mine situation, was at the White House. President Roosevelt has summoned leaders of the steel | industry, which owns these mines, | to his office tomorrow for an ac- | counting on his demand made three weeks ago that they work out immediately an agreement | with the employes of the coal mines they control. Six Principles Worked Out. | ‘The code proposals to govern cum-; petition made at N. R. A. today were | for six basic principles worked out by & joint committee of the recovery unit and the Department of Commerce after | & survey of the 1.000 proffered codes; of resclutions adopted by trade associa- tions; of rules approved by the Federal Trade Commission over 15 years, and of agreements for fair advertising and sell- ing worked out by newspapers and bet- ter business bureaus. The six practices singled out for ban- ishment were: Inaccuracy in advertis- ing and selling: attacks on competitors; price discrimination; commercial brib- ery; breach of contract or interference with those of others; coercion by black- lists and other devices. The interpretations of the retail code were: The code must be observed by all stores which do not engage ‘“‘primarily” in selling food, milk and tobacco, or those coming under separate codes: Filling stations, automobile agencies, lumber and material yards and sellers of oil burners, ice, coal, jewelry and sewing machines. It does not apply to well segregated divisions of department stores such as restaurants, lunch fountains, barber shops. “Loss Leader” Dies Tomorrow. Starting_tomorrow the “loss leader” is dead. That is, no merchant shall sell any article, except those specifically exempt, at less than it cost him or at which he could buy it today, whichever 1s lower. Once the code authority sets an al- lowance for labor costs to be charged above cost of the goods to the merchant —probably early next week—this “‘mark-up,” about 10 per cent, must be charged on all articles. As the bulk of articles are sold at or near a profit level which is still higher than this, it should not affect price marking generally. No employe in a town of 2,500 or less | may legally make an “unwarranted re- duction” in the number of his em- ployes to come within the exemption from all code terms given to those with five or less workers in the small towns. Part-time workers must be counted. The exemption shall not apply in towns of 2,500 or less whose boundaries touch the line of a bigger community, | nor to those within the metropolitan area of cities of 100,000 or more as de- | fined by the last census. | Complaints on any subject by mer- | chants are to be made to the nearest | district office of the Department of | Commerce, pending creation by the trade itself of local committees, au- thorized by the code to help administer and enforce the pact. Two important qualifications were made to these rules. A retailer may cut below his own invoice cost to meet a competitor's price based on a lower invoice, but to avoid being classed as a violator must report his action immediately to the | regional manager until the local com- | mittee is created. He cannot cut to, FORD TRUCK TAKEN steel companies were notified that no governmental loans would be made the carriers to buy rails without full examination of their heretofore closed ledgers, unless To Public Domain Irks State | | the Sarraut cabinet, will be followed al- | dent. | most to the letter by the new govern-| -The Tari e ment, it was said, particularly regard- e Tl Oox - e . quotations were reduced. Eastman said in his demand that letters from the steel-makers fixing a uniform price of $37.75 a gross ton at the mills “bear unmis- takable evidence of prior consul- tation and collusion and absence | of competition.” and left the next move up to the steel interests. Close Watch Kept. Officials who were instrumental in | bringing about conferences with steel | spokesmen that led to the bidding, kept | a close watch on developments, explain- | ing the outcome would affect a primary | point in the work-spreading campaign. | BYL S INLOWBD Notice Believed Mailed Before: N. R. A. Dispute—Con- | troller Ruling Waited. ' By the Associated Press. | awaited future developments. | ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) The Veterans' Administration yester- | | day sent formal notice of acceptance | of & low bid for one truck to the Ford dealer, whose low figure on 1,000 trucks for the Civilian Conservation Corps may be rejected because officials do not | deem the maker of the cars a com- | pliant with the N. R. A. code for au- | tomobiles. The dealer. Northwest Motor Co. of Bethesda, Md., was instructed not to deliver the Veterans' Administration truck until a formal order is sent, but acceptance of the bid was understood | to_mean closing of the contract. | Veterans' officials were cut of reach | yesterday afterncon. but the notifica- tion was believed to have been mailed | | before the furore of Friday, in which i Hugh S. Johnson, the Industrial Ad+ | ministrator, declared Ford ineligible for | Government contracts, and presidential backing for his stand was disclosed. The President’s view was that under his | own order of last August 10, bids could be accepted only for products made un- der affirmative compliance with the ap- | Pplicable code. and that purchasing agents should go on this until and un- less the controller general tumned them own. Controller Deciding Power. It was upon the controller, J. R. Mc- Carl, who frequently has insisted that | contracts be granted to low bidders, that the Ford agent was described as basing hopes of still getting the big C. C. C. contract. In one other development on the Ford matter, the Lincoln limousine which day by day has walted outside | the Department of Commerce to carry | Johnson frcm meeting to meeting was | | gone. “exchanged for another limousine | | of different make. Johnson had made good his promise to trade in the Ford product. ‘The Government, which owned the car, was said not to have lost a cen., getting an even trade for the new car out of & loca] dealer. Tests of Ford's compliance still A po- tential one looked for yesterday (Mnled to develop when the Edgewater, N. J. Ford plant was silent on whether the | dai i CLOSED BANK ROBBED Bandits, Mistaken for State Offi- cials, Get $1,500 in Loot. | LAPEER, Mich, October 28 UP— | Three men who were mistaken for | State banking officials robbed the | | predicted favorable weather for the | | glant craft and' her 24 passengers. | meet bona fide clearance sales and dis- | closed Lapeer Savings Bank of about | posal of damaged goods, etc., where a | $1,500 this afternoon, torturing Omar | merchant is free of minimum price re- | Potter. custodian, in a futile effort to Federal financing of rail purchases by | carriers was advanced as a method of increasing activity in the so-called cap- | ital industries and calling back to the Job thousands of maintenance employes laid off by the railroads, as well as helping the steel business. Just what it cost to produce a ton of | rails appeared an unanswerable question in governmental sources. Some esti- | mates were as low as $20. One steel expert, declining to permit use of his name, said that if some costs | (Continued on Page 2, Column Z) GRAF ROARS HOME ABOVE ATLANTIC Globe Trotter of Air Reports 900 Miles East of Norfolk at Midnight. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. October 28—At mid- night the Radio Marine Corporation received a message giving the position of the Graf Zeppelin as 900 miles east of Norfolk, Va. Her silver nose headed toward Se- ville, Spain, en route to Friedrichshaf«i, | Weather Bureau officials at Washing ton, where Dr. Hugo Eckener circled his | ship in a farewell salute this afternoon, | The Graf's route lies far south of the | only storm on the Atlantic tonight. The Graf took the air at Akron at| 8:35 a.m. loday. | Her passengers included a grand- mother, Mrs. Peter Holland of Chicago, | and 15-year-old Nancy Page Carveth of | Niagara Falls, who accompanied her | mother. After flying slowly about Washington for about 20 minutes the ship headed east-northeast and left the Jersey! coast near Cape May. | Rain was considered likely on the first half of the Atlantic trail to Ger- many unless Dr. Eckener piloted the ship to the Azores and thence angled to Seville. CABINET MAY RESIGN LA PAZ, Bolivia, October 28 (#).— Rumors concerning a resignation of the | hope for administration spproval of strictions. | Even in towns of 2500. a merchant | who will not suffer exceptional hard- ship is_expected to “conform to the (Continued on Page GUARDS’ FEDERATION BANNED BY DOLLFUSS Government Order Dissolves Gen- darmes’ Association, Affiliated With Labor Union. ¢ the Associated Press. !)VXENNA, October 28.—The Austrian Association of Gendstrmc: was dissolved vernment_order. t")‘lA!fllw i‘;’l’cfia with a nation-wide feder- ation of labor, the organization pub- lished & weekly information sheet for members which, a communique said, re- cently included matter “likely to e'l‘ulln- ger discipline in the gendarmerie.’ g ‘At the same time, four exec\mvul of ilway workers’ councils were cion of high treason, tives of the Employes’ street ral arrested on suspl as were two execu Council of the Vienn: and the cmmnn- of t orkers’ Union. wA lo:ll of 31 representatives of So-| cialist workers' organizations were im- | prisoned on treason charges in connec- tion with the distribution of Socialist instructions for general strike. Meanwhile, a formal charge of at- tem] murder was filed against Ru- dolph _Dertil, who on October 4 shot and slightly wounded Chancellor Engel- Dert Dollfuss, a General Hospl! he Hospital tal, | Fourteen-year-old Ralph Faison, I ‘The charge for stomping out cigar learn a safe combination. | Bolivian cabinet resulted in an intes The bank has been closed pending | View appearing today in a local news- reorganization. Potter said he admitted | Paper quoting the minister of the in- the men in the belief they were State | terior as saying: officials whom he was Exgc‘m& | “The ministers simply told the Presi- Potter told police the men tortured | dent of our intention of resigning, but him by sticking a knife into his arms | We have not resigned yet. Probably and legs to make him reveal the combi- ‘ today. the President will decide whether nation of a safe where funds in addi- | he will continue with the present cab- tion to the $1,500 were kept. inet or form a new cabinet of national The robbers left with the safe still | concentration.” closed. _ $14,000,000 Suit Argued. Weddell Confers in Argentina. | 1ouISVILLE, Ky., October 28 (P — BUENOS AIRES, October 28 (#).— | A decision in the $14,000,000 receiver's United States Ambassador Alexander |suit against directors of the National W. Weddell held a long conference to- | Bank of Kentucky is expected to be day with Chancellor Saavedra Lamas of | given son by Federal Judge Arthur Argentina. | J. Tuttle of Detroit, who heard final It was reliably asserted that one of | srguments in the case here yesterday. the important points discussed was The arguments started before Judge frozen American credits in Argenténa. | Tuttle October 17. BOY IN OWN SIDESHOW AT FAIR STOMPING FIRE WITH BARE FEET | ‘That seemed to panic ’em. The boys made a circle and Faison stood in the middle. A crowd gathered. By the Assoclated Press. GREENSBORO, N. C., October 28— went to the World's Fair, spent all his | stumps was 10 cents, 5 cents for cig- money on the sideshows, and then be-' arette stubs. came a sideshow himself to replenish| A man started the ball rolling and his funds | Faison calmly put out the fire. More | Congressmen Angered by | Ickes Proposal on Drought Area. Murray Threatens Us e: of Troops if Plan Is Carried QOut. By the Associated Press Anger stirred some members of the Oklahoma congressional delegation yes- terday because of a statement attrib- uted to Secretary Ickes that the! drought-stricken area of the State should be turned back to the public | domain. | Senator Thomas, Democrat. of Okla- homa, said the entire delegation would go to President Roosevelt next week for an explanation. Representative Marland, Democrat, | of Oklahoma, said Ickes made the | statement in telling him there was no any of the dam projects in the area.| Marland quoted Ickes as saying the Government contemplated moving 40.- 000 persons from the area, perhaps to some point along the All-American Canal, in California. Proposal “Preposterous.” “It's preposterous,” he added, point- ing out families had lived there and made their livings for decades and that the drought was only during the last' two years | Meanwhile, Representative Johnson. Democrat, of Oklahoma, said he took the matter up with President Roose- velt yesterday. The President, he said, assured him of his esteem for Oklahoma and added he was certain Ickes had made no such | remark with serious inten ‘Told later, however, of Ickes’ riponed | statement to Marland, Johnson agreed | the delegation should go to the Presi- 1 “We'll_protest vigor- ously to the President. We'll see Ickes about it, too, and give him a chance to tell us that.” “Gentleman Feeling Oats.” “It's difficult for me to believe a man would seriously make such a statement, It seems the gentleman is feeling his oats since he came from Chicago to ‘Washington. And regardless of what Mr. Ickes thinks of Oklahomans, they “Thom: ;" “The delegation will see the President about this matter. | We will try to learn whether turning | land back to the public domain is part of his policy.” Marland _reported his conversation with Ickes was substantially as follows: “Mr. Ickes, which of those dam proj- "(Continued on Page %, Column 4) ACTRESSES A'N[) CROONER | NAMED IN THREE SUITS | Billie Burke, Marjorie Beebe and Bing Crosby Involved in Court Actions. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, October 28.—Three collection suits involving two actresses and a crooner, Billle Burke, Marjorie Beebe and Bing Crosby, were filed in courts today. The Irving Trust Co., as trustee in bankruptcy of the Savoy Plaza Hotel | Co. in New York, filed a $1.250 suit against Miss Burke, charging she failed to pay the hotel that amount. Crosby has neglected to pay $450 due for rental of a limousine, Mrs. Violet Wildey charged in a suit’ she brought against RQim. Dr. A."A. Hummell sued Miss Beebe for $50, charging she failed to pay him for stitching I:g a deep laceration in her arm which she suffered at a Holly- wood party recently. LEADING GRID SCORES ‘William and Mary, 12; Georgetown, 6. Western Maryland, 13; Maryland, 7. St. John’s (Annapolis), 38; Ameri- can University, 7. Upsala, 27; Gallaudet, 7. ‘West Virginia State, 7; Howard Uni- versity, 6. Army. 21; Yale, 0. Navy, 13; Pennsylvania, 0. Princeton, 6; Washington and Lee, 0. Dartmouth, 7: Harvard, 7. Fordham, 2; Alabama, 0. Washington and Jefferson, 0; Car- negie Tech, 0. Duke, 14; Kentucky, 7. Georgia, 25; New York U, 0. Everybody around was wearing shoes. | stubs fell in the circle and more money The lad recalled that at home he had| fell in a hat. The lad used his big gone barefoot all his life, even in cold | toe, his heel, the ball of his foot. weather, His feet were tough as| Later the money was counted. Eleven leather. With the help of his com- | dollars. , he prepared a sign “That’s enot “Burning cigarette and cigar stumps | show closed, stole quietly away in put out with bare feet.” night, back to Dixie, £ ,” said one. so the side- the Tennessee, 13: Florida, 6. Virginia Military, 13; Virginia, 12. Pittsburgh, 14; Notre Dame, 0. Ohio State, 12; Northwestern, 0. Minnesota, IF:OLO"I. 7.° uu:; Californis, 3. ford, 0. Washington State, 0. | __REPRESENTATIVE MARLAND. _ BIG BOND FORGER REVEALED IN WEST Bogus Issue in Omaha May Total $400,000, Controller of City Says. By the Associated Press. OMAHA, October 28.—Forgery of Omaha city bonds, which Controller Charles Stenicka believes may total | $400,000 & $42,000 block of which was | sold to a Chicago bank, was officially announced today. City officials have learned that $25.- 000 worth of the bonds had been sold to Omaha people, who, protected by the | bond houses from which they made the purchases, have received refunds, How many more bonds were still in circu- lation has not been fully checked. The bonds are forgeries of a $400.- 000 legitimate street improvement issue of November 1, 1925, due in 1945, and apparently have appeared on the mar- | ket since the last interest date, on May 1. The forgery was revealed yesterday by a New York and Chicago bond | house, C. F. Childs & Co., which had sold $10,000 worth of the bad bonds in good faith to the United States Na- tional Bank of Omaha. The bank was instructed to return the bonds and receive a full refund. ‘The coupons were &scribed as an excellent forgery, although the signa- tures on the bonds were crude. SHERIFF GIVES LIE TO HUEY’S CHARGES Says Further Publication of Un- truths Will Become a Personal Matter Between Pair. By the Assoclated Press. NEW ORLEANS, October 28.—George E. Williams, criminal sheriff of Orleans Parish, today issued a statement charg- ing United States Senator Huey P. Long with publishing a “pack of lies” about him and threatening to make it a “per- sonal matter.” The statement of Williams, in part, follows: “On August 4, 1933, an article ap- peared, written by Huey P. Long, Sen- ator from Louisiana, commenting on and charging discrepancies in my office in reference to ballot boxes. In that article he referred to me as Sullivan’s (John P. Sullivan, New Orleans poli- tician) man Priday * * * “On Tuesday, October 24, 1933, an article appeared in the Item referring to me as Sullivan’s man, setting forth and stating that I sat on his back steps trying to get into his organization. This, as many other utterances by this in- dividual. is nothing more than a pack Of Teal =70 ' “He forgets that on several occasions he sent for me and asked my advice on his gubernatorial candidates. He also, in some way or another, had me placed Democratic caucus, of. Instead of me at any time sitting on his back steps, it was he who sent for me and asked me to break with Sullfvan.” OFN.R A INDRIVE {Warned by Johnson, Candi- date Says He Knew Noth- ing of Pamphlets. By the Associated Press, against use of the N. R. A. Blue Eagle ing the gold franc, armament vigilance, strict protectionist quotas and com- large as an aid to the administration in the protection of American manu- facturers, of American labor and of merce. American farmers, under the opera- Debts to Lie Dormant, | tions of the N. R, A, and the Agricule The entire debt question will prob- | tural Adjustment Administration. ably lie dormant until Anglo-American | Will Aid State D =5 negotiations are finished or wmei Deputy throws the matter into the| In addition as the administration turbulant Chamber hopper, intimates | proceeds with its plans for the writing of the premier believed. | of reciprocal agreements and trade The retention of Henri Queuille as treaties between the United States and minister of agriculture in Sarraut’s cab- | other individual nations, and later with inet assures the continuance, experts multilateral trade agreements, the | say, of agricultural quotas and subsidiz- State Department will lean heavily on NEW YORK. October 28.—A warning 10 0f wheat exports. «the Tariff Commission for full infor- mation. The prospects at present are for no The naming of M. Daladier as war minister and Joseph Paul-Boncour as | on campaign literature was received by | minister of foreign affairs mean. it was | general revision of the tariff act now in | Joseph V. McKee, Independent mayoral | said, that it is unlikely further heavy | effect by Congress when it meets this candidate, from Hugh S. Johnson, the | recovery administrator, today. disarmament concessions will be grant- | Winter. The Cony has already ed Germany. “No government can go farther to- Acting quickly on the complaint of ward reconciliation than M. Daladier Fiorello H. La Guardia, Fusion nominee, Gen. Johnson telegraphed McKee that “the use of N. R. A. insignia or letters | on a political poster in such manner as | to tend to identify it with a particular political faction is unauthorized.” | | McKee, “Recovery party” candidate. | who has asserted that “a vote for Mc- | Kee is a vote for President Roosevelt,” | | immediately for the literature, distributed from the eadquarters of James J. Hoey, his run- ning mate for president of the Borough | | of Manhattan. McKee Denies Connection. “I have no knowledge of the issuance of those pamphlets,” said McKee. “They were not issued in my headquarters. You'll have to see Mr. Hoey's campaign manager.” A short time before a clerk in the McKee headquarters had gathered many of the pamphlets, explaining he had | been ordered to destroy them. McKee | said he had given no such order “be- cause I did not know the pamphlets had been issued.” Richard C. Murphy, secretary to the Hoey Campaign Committee, accepted re- sponsibility for the posters. “1 authorized the printing of those McKee-Hoey pamphlets,” he said. “But there was no intention on my part to connect the N. R. A. with a political faction.” Murphy pointed out that Hoey. a | had signed an N. R. A. pledge and that a8 & matter of argument he could be justified for the action. However. he | said the pamphlets had not been print- |ed with any intention of implying N. R. A. indorsement. Protest By La Guardia. La Guardia had protested to Johnson | and Louis H. Howe, Secretary to the | President, that distribution of the | pamphlets was a “patent attempt to mislead the people by implying that (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) HAZING SUIT RESULTS IN $56,860 AWARD Alberta Man and Son Win Action Against University Based on Mental Injury. By the Associated Press. LDMONTON, Alberta, October 28.— An award of $56,860 and costs was made by Justice W. C. Ives in Supreme Court today to C. H. A. Powlett and his son, Armand Powlett, in their dam- age action against the University of Alberta charging that Armand became insane as a result of initiation cere- monies at the university last year. “There should be compensation (for the boy) as far as money can com- pensate fully,” the judgment said. “I am not unmindful of the doubtful state of the recovery of young Powlett.” The initiation ceremony took the form of a “mock trial” of ycung Pow- lett, during which he was said in the statement of claim to have been strip- ped naked and dragged along a cor- ridor, beaten, subjected to cold showers, and to have had the name of Premier R. B. Bennett written on his fcrehead with ‘indelible ink because he had re- fused to say that a sophomore was the highest form of humanity. friend of former Gov. Alfred E. Smith. | and Paul-Boncour and live,” one high official maintained. Occupied With Budget. Premier Sarraut, it was reliably re- ported, is fully occupied with restoring the health of the French budget and rotecting the franc, and will let Da- adier and Paul-Boncour direct dis- armament. A conservative financial program is expected, with monetary tinkering and disclaimed responsibility | inflation barred. The government will engage in its first Chamber of Deputies fight over the budget-balancing bill, which in- cludes many features of the Daladier program, and on which Daladier met | defeat. | POLICE SAY KENTUCKY ‘KIDNAPING IS HOAX Refuse to Search for Willis Sta- ton, Independent Candidate for Judge. | By the Associated Press. PIKEVILLE. Ky, October 28 —Ex- pressing belief the reported kidnaping yesterday of Willis Staton, independent candidate for circuit judge, was a hoax, deputies at the sheriff’s office tonight said they had not instituted a search for Staton, who has not been seen here since early Friday. Deputy Sheriff Bob Hopkins said Staton's wife, who yesterday said her husband was kidnaped by “political enemies,” had not reported the pur- ported kidnaping to the sheriff’s of- fice. Hopkins said citizens general did not believe Staton was actuall kidnaped. County Attorney Sidney Trivett said yesterday he was con- BTess given the President full authority to act to protect American producers and la- bor in the event the domestic recovery program is threatened, or any individual industry is threatened, by imports from foreign nations or by the dumping of | cheap goods into this country. Under these circumstances the out- | look 1s for action by the executive rather than by the legislative branch of | the Government for the protection of | American products and labor, for the | eventual removal of trade barriers, and for the extension of American foreign trade. The Tariff Commission must fit into this picture and become the active in- vestigating agency for the State Depart- ment, the partment of Commerce, the N. R. A., the A. A A. and for the President himself. In the past the com- mission has been more active as an in- vestigating agency for the Congress, al- though under the so-called flexible pro- visions of the Smoot-Hawley tariff act it has made a number of investigations and has submitted reports to the Pres- ident. By those provisions the Presi- dent is authorized to lower or raise by not more than 50 per cent the tariff duties levied on imported articles, after }g\'estluuon and report to the Pres- ent. Strong Men Advocated. The President has been urged, it is understood. in the report now before him for consideration, to obtain the | services of the strongest and ablest | men possible for membership in the | Tariff Commission. It has been con- tended in some quarters that the Tarift Commission has been made to often the | haven of “lame ducks” who have lost out in their efforts to be returned to Consideration has also been given, it is understood, to the reduction in { the number of members of the com- | mission, bringing it down from six to four, or even to a smaller number. ‘While it has been suggested in the past that the commission might well become a part of the Department of Commerce, with & single executive vinced Staton had been kidnaped. | head. it is not understood that the re- A searching party started out to seek | port before the President calls for the Staton this morning. but reported NO | transfer of the commission to that de- trace of him tonight. : Staton was Kidnaped. his nephew, | PRIment, but tachie e} e Joe Staton, told authorities, by four ony'ie the number of commissioners is masked men who halted an automobile | 20l If the number of commissioners s in which the two Statons were return- o ""nemocrats and °“~ R: o ing from a political rally. BemIEeTs o publican BOLIVIANS REPULSED R R Although there have been reports to SRR the effect that there was dissatisfaction Paraguayan Communique Claims Attack Beaten in Gran Chaco. with some of the members of the Tariff Commission, and some of them may ASUNCION, Paraguay, October 28 have to go if and when the President follows out the recommendations now (P)—An official communique today said Paraguayan forces had repulsed Bolivian troops which attacked ad- vance detachments in the Gondra sec- tor of the Gran Chaco Friday. “We forced the enemy to retreat along an extensive front in the Aliguata Vieja sector,” the communique con- tinued. ~“We advanced several kilo- meters in the Pozo Favorito sector.” EMPEROR IS. RECOVERED Pasteur Treatment Saves Monarch Bitten by Pet Terrier. PARIS, October 28 (#).—The Em- peror Bao Dai of Annam, French Indo- China, now completely recovered from treatment at the local Pasteur Instituta, was revealed today to have been bitten by a pet fox terrier which was found to_be mad. Newspapers from Indo-China, just arrived in Paris, divulged the nature of the Emperor’s affiiction. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, October 28.—The spectacle | of Boston policemen, armed with bows and arrows, pursuing bold, bad bandits, may be presented in the early future if the suggestion of a Boston student of crime is adopted. In a communication laid before the usetts S BOW-AND-ARROW WAR ON CRIME PROPOSED WITH GAS AMMUNITION shoot arrows filled with tear gas under compression and would be used against criminals attempting to flee in auto- mobiles. Basing his argument for the device upon the great penetrating power of an arrow, the proponent said: “If such gas-filled arrow is fired at & fleeing a car the arrow will penetrate the and submitted to him, it was reported yese terday that there might be no immes (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) KIDNAPING SUSPECT AMONG 5 TO ESCAPE Quintet Slips by Sleeping Jailers, Apparently With Out- side Aid, By the Assoctated Press. PAWSHUSKA, Okla., October 28.— Five prisoners, apparently aided by an outsider with keys, escaped from the Osage County Jail here early today without awakening two sleeping jailers. ‘The fugitives include Eldon Wilson, & suspect in the kidnaping of two Fort Smlwhhkfil ohmcle‘m‘lu.;rch at Des pew, whic! ‘om Rign was shot. e Ossie Elliott, who led a convict breals at the Granite, Okla., State Reformae tory two years ago; Red Carson, charged with murder, and Wilkinson , facing minoy Neal and Harry Neal, charges, are the other fugitives. Guide for Readers General News. 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