Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1935, Page 12

A-12 = FREIGHT RATES INCREASE HINTED I. C. C. Report Cites Resto- ration of Wages—Roads Show More Traffic. By the Associated Press. A hint that it believes the railroadsi of the counizy should be permitted to | increase freight rates unless tramci increases was given yesterday by the ) Interstate Commerce Commission. At the same time, the railroads an- nounced that their 1934 freight ship-} ments increased over 1933 and 1932 | and groups of shippers filed briefs in | opposition to proposed increases in rates on various commodities. The commission, in its annual re- | port, yesterday cited the restoration of railroad wages due to be completed | April 1 and additional costs of mate- | rials used, adding that the ability of | the carriers to bear such increases “will depend in large part on th further revival of traffic.” l Below 1926 Level. “Freight rates, however,” the com- | mission added. “are somewhat bslu\\-i the level of those of the prosperous | year 1926 so often referred to as a'! year having a desirable level for com- modity prices, and passenger fares average considerably lower than those in 1926, while wages are to be re- stored to a level higher than that of 1926, since there was an upward tendency in wages between 1926 and | February 1, 1932.” The 1934 increase in freight hauled was shown by the year end report of the Association of American Railroads to have been largely accumulated in| the first six months of the year. | The upward swing which started early in the year continued through June, but in July a decrease began which continued until December. The association reported that total loadings of revenue freight for the year were 30,785,494 cars, an increase | of 5.4 per cent over the previous year | and 9.20 over 1932. Shippers File Briefs. The American Newspaper Publish- ers’ Association and several other groups of shippers yesterday filed | briefs in opposition to the proposal of | the railroads to raise various rates. The newspaper publishers warned the commission that increased tariffs would send more newsprint shipments to water carriers. Most of the large cities where news- papers receive newsprint in greatest volume, it was pointed out, are on navigable waters. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion withheld its usual legislative rec- ommendations yesterday. It is await- ing reports on various studies being made by Joseph B. Eastman, Federal co-ordinator of transportation. These are to be made to the commission and transmitted by it to the President and Congress. SALVATION ARMY REPORT 1S MADE More Than Million Days’ Work!| Given by Social Service Center. The Social Service Center of the Balvation Army in its annual report yesterday revealed that over one mil- lion days of work had been provided Washington’s needy men during 1934. The Social Service Center, which will move into its new building at First and F streets about March 1, s a distributing center for discarded materials, such as furniture and cloth- ing, which are gathered by employes of the bureau and rehabilitated in its workshop. Funds derived from the resale of these materials are used t> pay the men for their work and sapport the center. The annual report shows that 1,- 189,344 days of work were provided, $23,000 in cash paid to the workers, 60,176 meals served in return for work and 26,684 beds provided. This is not a complete report, Brig. John McGee pointed out, but they are the important figures gleaned from a study of the year's work. The study also indicates that 5,664 pieces of furniture were repaird, 115,- 970 garments made over, 12,140 pairs of shoes repaired, 3,120 tons of paper sent to the mills and 43 tons of rags also sent to paper mills. Expenses of operating the shops, the center and of caring for the men employed were about $75,000, which was paid from the revenues derived by resale of materials donated. FOUR IN NASH PLOT GET 2-YEAR TERMS Kansas City Judge Also Orders Conspirators to Pay $10,000 Fine Each. By the Assoclated Press. KANSAS CITY, January 5.—The law's full penalty fell today on the heads of four men convicted of a con- spiracy which the Government charged paved the way for assassina- tion of a Federal prisoner and four officers in Union Station Plaza here June 17, 1933. Declaring he thought the maximum penalty “a moderate one indeed,” Judge Merrill E. Otis sentenced Rich- ard T. Galatas, Hot Springs, Ark., gambler; Herbert Farmer, ex-convict of Joplin, Mo.; Frank B. (Fritz) Mul- loy, Kansas City night club owner, and Louis (Doc) Stacci, Chicago night club operator, to serve two years in a Federal penitentiary and to pay a fine of $10,000 each for their part in & conspiracy to liberate Frank Nash, recaptured Federal convict. Mrs. Galatas, Mrs. Farmer and Mrs. Vivian Mathis were sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $500, the sentences suspended on a three-year probation and the fines made payable September 1, 1935, SERIES TO BE RESUMED h—— The second half of the 1934-35 series of team games will be opened by the Federal Bridge Club, an or- ganization of contract players in the Federal service, on Tuesday night ltl 2400 Sixteenth street. The series will consist of 12 ses- sions of play and the team which wins the half will play a series of matches against the Exec team, which won the first half. The Exec team is composed of Lieut. Comdr. W. A. Corley, U. 8. N, retired; Edward P. Brooke, Bolling Galt and Lewis R. Watson. Karl W. Greene, Depart- ment of Justice, is president of the| league: [} JAPAN'S MENACE | necessary to examine the exact mean- | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY. 6, 1935—PART ONE. . Convicted in “Massacre” Mrs. Elizabeth Galatas, one of a group charged with conspiracy in the 1933 station “massacre” is seen (at right) leaving Federal Court in Kansas City with her attorney, Hen brought in a verdict of guilty. The convicted, is turned. DENIED BY SAITO Ambassador Says There Is. No Imperialism or “Open Doar” Opposition. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 5.—Ambas- | sador Hirosi Saito of Japan told the | Foreign Policy Association today Ja- pan had no imperialistic designs on; the Far East nor had it any intention | of jeopardizing the principle of the “open door” in China. | “It is impossible,” he declared, “for | Japan to be a menace to you, and I know that you do not want to be a| menace to my country.” Discussing what he termed “the principal misgivings” of the Amen-' can people regarding Japan's demands for naval parity and denouncement of | the Washington treaty, Saito said they dwelt largely on Japanese policy | in the Far East and China. No Far East Designs. “As to the first point,” he said, “I will most emphatically say that Japan has no aggressive or imperialistic de-} signs on the Far East or nnywhere‘ else. * * * The Japanese menace looms up only when seen through alarmists’ spectacles. “Had we been aggressive we could | already have gone far on various oc- casions. We need not have approved the development of a Manchu and Chinese government in the new state of Manchoukuo. To those who are| willing to look fairly at our history, | it seems to me the facts are obvious, | “As to the second anxiety, it is first ing of the time-honored term, the | open door. “It came into being at the time| when China was partitioned into | ‘spheres of influence’ by Great Brit- | ain, France, Russia and Germany. Japan had no part in that partition- ngEsEe e, Announcement by Hay. “The announcement by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899 of the| nrinciple of the open door presupposed | the existence of the ‘spheres of in-| fluence” With the disappearance of those ‘spheres’ in later years, the open door policy has become synonymous with ‘commercial fairness and justice.” “Japan has in the past been fre- quently charged with violations of the principle of the open door and equal | opportunity. These charges are plain- ly repudiated in many official reports p’:e]gared by American consular offi- COLLISION BRINGS SUIT George W. Boyd Claims Motor Boat Was Run Down. A motor boat collision on the Poto- mac River last September yesterday formed the basis of a damage suit in District Supreme Court against R. Lyman Sexton, 1801 I street. The plaintiff, George W. Boyd, 914 Twenty-second street, claims his boat wes run down by a launch owned by Sexton and damaged to the extent of $2,200. FLOR CUBA =~ ‘Where Summer la motor —the game 2enith in Florids s;z.:;hina ry L. Balaban, after the jury had back of Mrs. Esther Farmer, also —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Fashion Show, Baby Con- test to Be Attractions at Annual Show. A fashion show, baby contest and a host of other attractions and compe- titions will be offered when the fourth annual United Food Stores Exposition is held in the Washington Auditorium February 6 to 16. The exhibition of new Spring styles for women, a daily feature, will be shown this year for the first time. In addition it is planned to give away $2,500 in prizes, with attractive offer- ings each day of the show. A new || automobile will be one of the many ||| || prizes. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, president of the District Federation of Women's Clubs, and members of the various ||| organization of women, have been especially invited to view the exposi- tion. A model store complete with || the latest fixtures will be set up in the auditorium, and special attractions will be staged each night. Although the opening of the expo- sition is still a month away, the com- mittee in charge anncunced that nearly all of the available exhibit space has been taken. The products of about 75 exhibitors, most of them prom- Ii inent manufacturers of foodstuffs, ||| will be shown. Morris Kraft is gen- eral chairman of the exposition, with ||I|/| Alfred L. Stern as director. 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