Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1935, Page 2

HORGENTAL AP LD SENFIA Observers See Opening of Way for Stabilization Talks While Abroad. By the Associated Press. Secretary Morgenthau is trying to arrange a Fall pleasure trip to Europe, a visit which some believed might place him in a position to discuss stabilizational of international ex- change. Plans are still indefinite, but as putlined following the Treasury chief's return from a week end conference with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park, N. Y., he would sail for Portu- gal with his family and spend his time traveling in that country and in Bpain. Observers here noted that he would be far removed from the financial centers of London and Paris, but they quickly emphasized that English and French monetary experts might possi- bly strive to seek him out and discuss stabilization prospects. Change Seen in Fall. Ever since Morgenthau used the Government's $2,000,000,000 stabiliza- tion fund to ease a French financial crisis in mid-June, reports have been current that some stabilization de- velopments might be expected during the Fall months, Whether they will materialize while the Treasury Sec- retary is visiting in Southern Europe remains to be seen, but, at least, ob- servers remarked, he would be in a position to receive overtures. Morgenthau and Secretary Hull have both emphasized the importance | of stabilization in stimulating world trade. At this time also, there are recurring reports that the President and his advisers are seeking ways to balance the budget as soon as possible. International stabilization would re- move the necessity for the $2,000,- 000,000 stabilization fund and this could be applied to debt retirement. Washington to Aid. It was last May that Morgenthau said that “the world should know that when it is ready to seek foreign ex- change stabilization, Washington will not be an obstacle.” Observers were inclined to believe that stabilization efforts would be timely now. They noted that the French franc had shown signs of avolding devaluation pressure, that in- ternational money markets, except for flurries in the Belgium belga, have | been easy, and that Great Britain | might be willing to discuss stabiliza- tion after some forthcoming elections. On the other hand, experts put down war threats as offering possible obsta- cles for any immediate developments. STADIUM U-SE DENIED Constitution Day Rally Is Barred at Chicago’s Soldier Field. CHICAGO, September 4 (#).—The Chicago Park Board closed the gates of Soldier Field yesterday to a group of citizens seeking to use the huge stadium for a Constitution day rally. A statement from the commission explained that applications of the Constitution Day Committee & Save America, Inc., had been denied be- cause the Lake Front Amphitheater “should not under any consideration be used for the dissemination of propagands upon political and eco- nomic subjects of controversial na- ture.” SHIRKERS DENIED AID Oregon Jobless Rejecting Harvest Jobs Refused Relief. PORTLAND, Oreg., September 4 (7). ~—Unemployed persons who turn down offers of jobs as harvest hands were orderéd stricken from the Federal- State relief roles yesterday by E. J. Griffith, Oregon works progress ad- ministrator. Griffith sald some relief roll workers recently have hesitated to take em- ployment as harvest hands for fear they would not have an opportunity to obtain employment on W. P, A. projects, e U. S. MAY QUIT GENEVA Closing Office of Disarmament Unit Is Reported Considered. GENEVA, Seutember 4 (#).—The advisability of closing the Geneva office of the American disarmament delegation is being considered, it was learned yesterday. No definite instructions have been received from Washington. The mo- tive was sald to be economy and would mean that Hugh Wilson, United States Minister to Switzerland, and his military attache would no longer What’s What Behind News In Capitql Old Propagandists See Marks of Trade in Ethiopian News. BY PAUL MALLON. LD hands at the propaganda game here believe they have O noted excellent marks of their trade hidden in some of the news from Europe. The brazen Ethiopian effort to in- volve the United States by oil conces- slons did not particularly draw their admiration. It was too obvious to be good. What caught their fancy was the adroitly magnifying and insinuat- ing reactions prepared for American eyes in the capitals of Europe. For instance, one of the Dbest- known American journalists abroad wrote the other day about “the great profit” which will ensue “to whatever nationals are involved in the deal,” meaning, of course, the United States. Another yarn from the Ethiopian capital called it “a $60,000,000 deal,” meaning that the promoters were go- ing to spend that preposterous amount of money in search of Ethiopian oil. ‘That kind of lure for American fish (say the United States propagandists) is worthy of favorable comparison with the best bait manufactured abroad to | hook the United States into the World Suspicions of American officials were THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WE YODING OF LOR LAW 15 FOREGAST Board Chairman’s Argu- ment Held Proof Court Will Act Adversely. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘What J. Warren Madden, chairman of the newly created National Labor Relations Board, said over the radio about the Wagner labor law has fo- cused attention once more on the probability that the act will some day be declared unconstitutional. No better proof of this could be given than the argument which Mr. Madden has made for the board. He | said: “The board's powers are expressly limited to the prevention of unfair labor practices ‘affecting commerce’ and ‘commerce’ is expressly defined as interstate and foreign commerce.” The Supreme Court of the United States in the Schechter case by unanimous opinion stated that the mere fact that a practice ¥affects” interstate commerce is not sufficient. The effect must be “direct.” And the Supreme Court in previous cases has held that a labor dispute or a threat of a strike—except of railroad em- ployes—directly affects interstate commerce even though the employer sells in interstate commerce goods which have been produced by em- ployes who are parties to a labor dis- pute. This has been held to be true even though the effect of & strike or a threat of a strike is to reduce the amount of goods moving in interstate commerce. . Would Retard Bargaining. The essence of the Wagner labor law is an attempt to enforce collective bargaining as a principle of conduct in the relations of employer and em- ploye. There is much merit in col- lective bargaining and the right of employes to negotiate through agents aroused because the Commerce De- partment checked up on Ethiopian ago. Its official report indicated that if Haile Selassie has found any oil prospects worth 60 cents, he has kept them the biggest secret in the world. Also, if there are any huge prof= its to be made, no one yet suspects it save the King of kings and the British promoter who offered the suggestion. ‘The Comrznerce Department learned that there have never before been re- ports of oil in Ethiopia and that no real survey has ever been made of | its mineral deposits. It sums up the mining possibilities in one sentence: “Little exploitation and no accu- irale data on resources; potash, gold | and platinum irregularly produced in small quantities.” Diplomatic “Oil.” here will tell you off-the-record that the Selassie-British promoters appear to be prospecting more in oil of the diplomatic kind than in petroleum. They will also tell you the Securities and Exchange Commission would not permit sale of stock to American in- vestors unless Selassie gets up a bet- ter prospectus. Likewise, they sus- pect that the reaon the details have | been kept secret is that there are no details. Whether they are right about that| or not, they advise tongue-in-the-| cheek reading of European promotion | material from now on. | Rosevelt Keeps Formula. President Roosevelt seems to be clinging to his old recipe in making re- | cent officlal appointments. If you analyze the background of men named to the two recently appointed boards| (social security and labor) you will| find that his formula is one part prac- tical, one part brain trust and a dash | of politics. On the Social Security *Board he | named: (A) an efficient gubernatosal administrator of liberal tendencies, (B) a brain truster who has been in the Government a long time, and (C) a purely political appointee. The personnel of the Labor Board is being appraised on the inside as: (A) A lawyer hitherto unknown to the New Deal whose record places him in the practical category, (B) a holdover liberal of the brain trust type, and (C) a labor mediator of experience. Dodges Price Rise Question. The President was asked to com- ment the other day about the ad- vance of the commodity price level to 80.8 per cent of the 1926 average. maintain their present Geneva quar- ters, Irvin S. Cobb Says: Human Tumble Weeds Drift Into Western Port of Relief. SANTA MARIA, Calif, September 4—This is a favorite port of entry for the unemployed, who pour in by the thousands looking for manna in the wilderness. If we're out of manna they'll take sarsaparilla, There are many pitiable cases among these new- comers, also plenty of others who want to go on relief right He dodged the question by asking which commodities had increased most. The fact is only special food and farm prices have been increas ing. They have drawn the gen- eral index up to the highest level in flve years. Other (industrial) prices have been virtually un- changed for months. On the basis of 1926 as 100, the comparison be- tween the three lines now is: Farm prices 80.7; foods 86.1; other com= modities (industrial) 77.8. m}n‘z one will polnt with pride at Portraits Removed. Reporters filed into the office of & cabinet officer for a press confer- ence and noticed that all the portraits of former holders of that office had been removed from the walls. One inquisitive news gatherer asked why. The reply of the cabinet officer was: “Oh, they're out being cleaned.” After thinking over that remark, the cautious cabineteer decided to put it in the off-the-record class so it could not be published. Over at the Justice Department, aides collected ofl portraits of form Attormeys General and decided to hang them in the corridor. They dis- covered that two were missing, Mr. Hoover's Attorney General Mitchell and Mr. Harding’s Harry Daugherty. They decided to seek one of Mitchell. (Copyright. 1035.) g e GUARD ASSAILANT TO DIE Californian to Face Scaffold on Friday for Assault. Willlam Bagley, 45, habitual criminal sentenced to death for assaulting a guard, would be hanged Priday as orignially planned, despite injuries he incurred in & futile attempt to escape. | Dr. L. L Stanley, prison physician, said Bagley's skull was not figctured, as first supposed, that there was & slight head con! mining prospects only about two “ezhldeed, everything that Mr. Madden For these and other reasons, officials | | Supreme Court in 1908 in holding the | of their own choosing, but the pro- | tection of this right is a matter for the police power of the States. In- says about the virtues of collective bargaining can be obtained under State laws. The effort to concentrate on & | Federal statute for this purpose will only delay and retard the true at- tainment of collective bargaining for American labor. For it is evident from Supreme Court decisions that there is no direct | relationship .between a labor dispute, | or controversy over union or non- union membership, and the movement of goods in interstate commerce. In the famous Adair case the Supreme had forbidden interstate carriers, namely railroads, to threaten any employe with a loss of employment ship in a labor union. Said the | act unconstitutional: | “Manifestly any rule prescribed for | the conduct of interstate commerce, | to be within the competency of Con- | gress under its power to regulate com- merce among the States, must have | some real or substantial relation to | or connection with the commerce reg- ulated. No Bearing Under Law. “But what possible legal or logical connection is there between an em- ploye'’s membership in a labor or- ganization and the carrylng on of interstate commerce? to a labor organization cannot have, 'in itself and in the eye of the law, any bearing upon the commerce with which the employe is connected by his labor and his services.” ‘The court held also that the statute had its origin “in the apprehension, on the part of Congress, that if it did not show more consideration for mem- bers of labor organizations than for wage earners who were not members of such organizations, members of labor organizations would, by illegal or violent measures, interrupt or im- pair the freedom of commerce among the States.” The court stated that it could not indulge in any such conjectures “with- out imputing to Congress the purpose to accord to one class of wage- earners privileges withheld from another class of wage earners, en- gaged, it may be, in the same kind of labor and serving the same em- ployer.” The last sentence applies equally well today to the language of the Wagner labor law, which attempts to bind a non-union minortiy in a shop to the wishes of union men or a union minority to the wishes of & non-union majority. Misled by 1917 Decision. Some observers have been misled by a subsequent decision, in 1917, where- by the Supreme Court upheld an act of Congress fixing hours of employ- ment, but here the precedent cannot be held to apply to private industry, because Congress had already asserted its power to regulate the railroads and the question of a standard eight- hour day was held to be part of the regulatory power of Congress over railroads. Inasmuch as collective bargaining is attainable under State laws and probably will be held to be outside the scope of Federal power, it is interest- ing to go back to the “horse-and- buggy days” of February, 1933, when Senator Robert Wagner, author of the new labor law, was speaking in the United States L.nate. He had just contended that the question which had troubled the American people since the eighteenth amendment was added to the Constitution “was not at all concerned with liquor,” but was & “question of government, how to re- store the constitutional balance of power and authority in our Federal system which had been upset by na- tional prohibition.” Senator Wagner sadd: id: “No one single national standard can prevail. That is the principal lesson of our experience with the eighteenth amendment. Federal guarantees are futile. At the bed- rock of this entire question lies this immovable truth: That there is noth- ing the Constitution can say, nothing the Federal Government can do which will successfully impose & rule of conduct upon a community except by the will of the people of that com- munity.” No better argument for State laws to regulate labor conduct could have been made, but while Senator Wagner and the New Dealers have reversed themselves the Supreme Court of the United States is not lkely to do so. argument which can only be the fore- runner of a declaration by the courts holding the Wagner law as having Court passed judgment on 4 law which | or to discriminate unjustly against | any employe because of his member- | Such relation | the sole “ asilara a6 o down for L oth artnes wnt Wik ik o * B TR Y, % % R TR e + 1.M.the Buperor of ESRiopfs, — Above: Leo Chertok, New York broker, who says he is prepared to exercise his option on a 50-year concession on oil and minerals in Ethiopia and that the nec2ssary $1,000,000 loan to take up the option will be forthcoming. Below: Reproduction of the agreement for the concession. Ethiopia ~—A. P. Photos. — |as temporary members tn & publie session which followed close behind (Continued From First Page.) She has brought forth new charges in a memorandum filed today.” Premier Laval of France pleaded for conciliation on the part of both Italy and Great Britain, declaring: “l1 am convinced the Italo-Ethiopian dispute can be settled by the League.” Unworthiness Charged. As the Council members assembled, Italy had filed a protest against Ethiopian membership in the League. (The Italian memorandum charged that Ethiopia by her conduct “placed herself openly outside the League and rendered herself unworthy of the | confidence accorded her when she was admitted.”) Aloisi declared that if the League’s recently adopted definition of an ag- gressor had existed previously, Italy often in the past would have been justified—under the League rules—in “resorting to war against Ethiopia.” The Italian told the representatives | of the other nations that his govern- ment had submitted a memorandum, explaining the reason Italy believes Ethiopia has “systematically violated all treaty undertakings both toward | Italy and the League.” He said that for the same reason, Italy was unable to accept the program presented during the conference with Great Britain and France in Paris last month. Alois! said that for 50 years Italy has pursued a polity of amity and col- laboragion with Ethiopla, but that | Ethiopla had resorted to brigandage and violence. Denies Equal Rights. A nation like Ethiopia, said the Itai'an noble, “cannot have equality of rights or equality of duties ac com- pared to civilized nations.” He claimed that the Ethiopian attitude prejudiced the interests of other League members. Aloisi charged that slavery still flourished in Ethiopia and declared: “All solidarity with such a nation should be refused. Italy would con- sider her dighity profoundly wounded it she continued to discuss at the League on a footing of equality with Ethiopla.” The slavery issue was emphasized with the charge that the Ethiopian government not only countenanced the traffic in slaves but “directly. par- ticipated in the slave trade, either through accepting slaves in payment of taxes or permitting regular troops to capture them.” The violations charged were: “Ethiopian refusal to define fron- tiers with Italian colonies resulted in the consequently illegal occupation of Italian territories by Ethiopia. “Continual offense against the im- munity of Italian diplomatic and con- sular representatives in Ethiopia, Discrimination Charged. “permanent offense against the lives and goods of Italian citizens living in Ethiopia, who were pre- vented from developing economiz enterprises of any nature whatsoever. “Offenses and attack against the lives and goods of Itallan oitizens, even on Italian territories themselves.” ‘The memorandum voiced the theory that other members are mot bound to observe the rules of the covenant “toward & member which had placed herselt outside the pact through vio~ lation of its assumed.” With reference to the. borders, the a private meeting. Prior to the private meeting, the British delegation announced that PFrance was in agreement with Great Britain as to a report on the recent three-power conference in Paris which failed when Italy refused a British suggestion. Eden Presses Peace. Eden told the tense members of | the council: “We have all tried to | create & new international order whicn will spare mankind the scourge of war.” He reported, and announced tha’ Premier Laval of France concurred with him in the report, that Great Britaln had drawn up a program as & basis for discussion at Paris of the Italo-Ethiopian situation and that this program was rejected by the Italian government, He said that “we did not exclude the possibility of territorial adjust- | ments” in formulating the plan. “War is the enemy of progress,” said Eden, “and that is why, in the Briand-Kellogg pact, the nations re- nounced war. World opinion is watching us. * ® ¢ “If the League fails to settle this dispute, its influence will be grievously shaken. The collapse of the League would be a world calamity.” 'RED CROSS HYGIENE CLASSES ARRANGED Home Care of Sick to Be Taught at 1730 E Street or Other Convenient Places. Classes in home hygiene and care of the sick will be conducted from early September through the middle of June by the District of Columbia Chapter of the American Red Cross, it was announced today. The classes will be arranged fom morning, afternoon and evening and will be held at 1730 E street, or at other places which may be econ- venient for individual groups. Each student is to recelve 24 hours of instruction, covering & period of 6 weeks. Time, place and length of class meeting will be arranged to meet the convenienec of the groups, it was announced. The course is arranged as & phase of health education and is intended to provide training in solving the health problems of the home and in the simple care of ill members of the family. The course is planned to meet the requirements of such varied classes as Americanization school groups, mothers, leisure-time groups, business women, Girl and Boy Scouts and men's groups. ‘The chapter provides volunteers who have taken the course and who wish to contribute their services to aid the medical and nursing staffs of seven hospitals of the District. These volunteers are known as health aides and are employed in social service, recreation and similar service among patients. Information as to details of the chapter house, 1730 E s phone National 1910. The courses will be taught by graduate nurses under direction of Miss Caroline E. ‘Thomson, instructor in home hygiene and care of the sick of the local DNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1935. VIDAL COMPLETES POST CRASH PROBE Believes Mishap Caused by Nose-Heaviness Due to Pontoons. A nose-neavy airplane, resulting from substitution of pontoons for landing wheels, coupled with engine failure probably due to clogging of the carbureter by ice during & climb- ing turn just after taking off, prob- ably was responsible for the deaths of ‘Wiley Post and Will Rogers near Point Barrows, Alaska, August 15, it was reported today by Eugene L. Vidal, director of air commerce, Commerce Department. Vidal, following & personally-con- ducted investigation of the crash, submitted & 1,100-word report to Secretary of Commerce Roper in which he attributed the crash to & coinci- dence of factors. His investigation indicated the airplane stalled at an altitude of perhaps 200 feet. “The combination of the plane in a banking turn with still low flying speed immediately following the take- off and climb, the motor failure and the airplane’s nose heaviness could result in such & stall,” Vidal reported. Post and Commerce Department in- spectors were entirely satisfled with the condition of the airplane during its test flights, Vidal said. The later substitution of pontoons for landing wheels so the ship could be operated as & seaplane, however, apparently changed the center of gravity and Post discussed with Joe Crosson, Alaskan pilot who flew the bodies back to the United States, the apparent nose-heaviness of the plane and his suspicion that the pontoons were re- sponsible. Because of this condition Rogers always sat far back in the plane on take-offs and landings and all luggage was kept far aft. Vidal based his report on informa- tion gathered from Crosson, Sergt. Stanley R. Morgan, Army Signal Corps radio operator, first official at the scene of the crash, Eskimos who witnessed the accident, and others. He attributed engine faflure to ac- cumulation of ice in the carburetor by condensation of moisture in the air at low temperature or the freezing of spray thrown up during the landing and take-off and sucked in through the air scoop. SEARCH CONTINUES FOR MISS JORGENSEN Friends Fear for Safety of Actress-Pianist Missing Since Saturday. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., September 4. —Search continued today for missing Marchene Bach-Jorgensen, 24-year- old actress-pianist, who has figured in several odd news happenings in recent years. | The young woman has not been | seen since she left her home last Saturday. Her friends expressed fear for her safety. Recently Miss Jorgensen was ques- | tioned as the purported leader of a | cult which received “spirit” messages | from the late Rudolph Valentino. In May, 1934, Miss Jorgensen told police she had been kidnaped by two men and carried into the Hollywood | hills. The men never were found. Last December she won a $1,000 | jJudgment against Lew Brice, theat- }rical agent, whom she charged mis- i ;or?ud her, She had sued for $100,- \WABASH MEDIATION Railway Officials, Brotherhood Representatives and National Board Meet Here. By the Associated Press. ‘Wabash Rallroad officials and rep- | resentatives of the four railroad brotherhoods met with the National Mediation Board today to try to avert a threatened strike. The brotherhoods postponed the strike, originally set for August 31, at the board’s request to permit media- tion conferences. The dispute was over wages in sev- eral classifications. The brotherhoods and the carriers submitted some of the issues to the National Board of Arbitration. The brotherhoods subse- quently claimed the railroad had re- fused to carry out the board's awards. Dr. Willlam Leiserson, chairman of the National Mediation Board, ex- pressed hope the board could arrange an agreement. He said the confer- :x:;: Pprobably would continue several BAIL FOR BROWN SOUGHT CONFERENCE OPENS BY MRS. WILLEBRANDT Vice President of Defunct Shang- bai Firm Faces Embezzle- ment Count. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, September 4.—Mabel ‘Walker Willebrandt, former Assistant United States ‘Attorney General, is seeking to arrange bail with the De- partment of Justice for John Warren Brown, vice president of the defunct American-Oriental Finance Corp. Brown, formerly of Los Angeles, and other officers were charged with embezzlement in & complaint filed by Felthan Watson, United States attor- ney here. The alleged embezzlement, the complaint states, involves the funds of paid-up stock accounts to- taling $65,000 of 15 clients. Brown, now in Manils, is reported ready to come to Shanghai. Bail is fixed at $10,000 in gold. —_— COUNSEL AGREE TO OPEN ROBINSON TRIAL OCT. 7 Dies Aboard Ship GEORGE C. HANSON. (Story on Page A-1.) TREASURY HAPPY OVER BOND SALE Morgenthau Refuses Com- ment on Difference in Market. By the Associated Press. Treasury officials were openly pleased | today with the success of their latest | half-billion-dollar issue, especially | since the Treasury's recent failure to obtain a full subscription on a $100,- | ROOSEVELT HINTS REPAIRS' FORU.S. Keynote for Speeches in Future Seen in White House Parable. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYDE PARK, N. Y., September 4.— An informal talk to a group of Duchess County nelighbors last night and a long-distance speech two weeks ago to the young Democrats meeting in Milwaukee may serve as the key- note of Mr. Roosevelt's political ut- terances in the near future. In both speeches he seemed eager to impress upon Americans the theory that old and wornout things need modernization and renovation, if life is to be made happier and safer, and that there is no nged to fear neces- sary repairs. Speaks in Rain. About a hundred men and women stood in a drizzling rain to hear him last night. They sensed the signi- ficance of the New Deal parable he drew from the repairs now being made on the White House. He made no direct reference to his administra- tion or his ideas for improving the Government, but he made it plain in the comparison he drew between the repairs going on at the White House and Government itself. “Every once in a while whether it be a human structure, things made with hands, or things created by gov- ernment, we have to make repairs,” he said. “Back in President Coolidge's time the White House roof leaked. It was quiet dangerous, because the water had rotted some of the beams. It must be remembered that the White House dated back as far as 1796. It is one of the most historical 000,000 farm mortgage issue. Secretary Morgenthau announced | last night that the new $500.000,000 | issue of 31;-year, 12 per cent notes had been oversubscribed, but he de- clined to advance any explanation for | the difference in the market last week and this. | buildings in the United States and it will remain as one of our most his- torical buildings, but every once in a while repairs must be made. But with 1l these repairs it has remained the same White House, the same archi- tecture, the same dignity and the same beauty.” Subs-ription books have been closed on the new 3!3-year notes, but will remain open until further notice for holders of $1,250,000,000 in called Lib- erty bonds to exchange them for new | bonds or notes. | The financing announcement came | as Treasury figures showed that, col- | lecting 46 cents for every dollar spent, | a deficit of $662594,078 had been rolled up in the first two months of the financial year. Cash Cut to $1,185,000,000. To cover this difference between in- | come and outlays, it borrowed $334,- 000,000 and dipped into its cash on hand to the extent of $358,000,000. This reduced the ready money in its vaults to $1,185,000,000. Big as it was, this sum ranked small by comparison with the amount usually carried, espe- clally since an estimated $400,000,000 | was “earmarked” for retiring national bank notes. Considerable saving in interest pay- | ments was expected from the ex- change of Liberty bonds. The Liberties yield 414 per cent. The bonds for which they are to be exchanged carry a 234 per cent rate, with maturity 12 years hence, or the Liberties may be turned in for the 1} per cent notes maturing in 1939. | In this way the Treasury is taking | advantage of prevailing low money rates to reduce the interest payments on the national debt. Much of it has | been converted into short-term paper, | however, and if the savings is to be | permanent low money rates must con- tinue for the next several years. The Treasury books schedule maturities totaling $13,000,000,000 before 1940. Comparative Figures. ¥or the first two months of the| fiscal year, with the last day of Au- | gust yet to be reported, expenditures totaled $1,237,000,000, while revenues added up to $574,000,000. same two months a year ago outlays aggregated $930,000,060 and revenues | $496,000,000, or tax collections of ap- proximately 53 cents for each dollar spent. La#t year's deficit for the two months was $434,000,000 as compared with the $662,000,000 this year. Last year, too, revenues more than cov- ered the expenditures which the Treasury classifies as ‘“general” to distinguish from expenditures for re- covery and relief. Against the re- ceipts of $496,000,000, general dis- bursements totaled $429,000,000. But this year, all outlays were about evenly divided between the two classi- fications, with revenues of $574,000,000 insufficient to cover either. “Gen- eral” expenditures totaled $608,000,- | 000 and outlays for recovery and re- lief aggregated $628,000,000. The receipts this year, however, were $78,000,000 greater than a year ago with all classifications—except the processing tax—revealing increases. Income tax payments rose from $42,- 000,000 to $46,000,000; miscellaneous internal revenue from $271,000,000 to $360,000,000, and customs from $41,- 000,000 to $65,000,000. Processing tax collections meanwhile fell from $81,- 000,000 to $30,000,000. WHITE IS NOMINATED JACKSON, Miss, September ¢ (®).—Hugh L. White of Columbia was officially nominated as the Democratic party candidate for Governor of Miss- issippi yesterday by the State Dem- ocratic Executive Committee. In a session lasting less than an hour, the committee canvassed the official returns from the August 27 primary, and promulgated the cer- tified results. ‘White led Paul B. Johnson of Hat- tiesburg for the gubernatorial nom- ination by 12,066 votes with the of- ficial vote of the auditing committee adopted as correct. The vote gave White 182,771 and Johnson, 170,705. DISAPPOINTS BUYERS SCRANTON, Pa. (f).—An ingenious magazine salesman who sald he was selling subscriptions to win a scholar- ship at an aviation school left a trail of disappointed buyers. He told them with each purchase they were entitled to a free airplane ride by applying to ‘‘the colonel at the second hangar” of the local airport. Airminded subscribers couldn’t find Berry V. Stoll. It was decided to proceed with the trial- October 7 regardless of whether Thomas H. Robinson, jr, who has eluded G-men for almost & year since the kidnaping of Mrs. Stoll, Louis- ville society belle, is captured. Rob- inson, jr., is charged with the actual — $2,500 in Checks Stolen. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., Septem- ber 4 (#).—Theft of more than $2,500 in travelers’ checks and cash from the automobile of K. M. Scoville, Chi- cago mining engineer, Monday night was being investigated yesterday by police. le, a Navy aviator dur- ing the World War, i8 a former com- modore of the Southampton Yacht Qllh in Long lsland, N. Y, For the | !.M 10. Vetoes Seven Bills. The speech was made in front of the house of Moses Smith, Mr. Roose- velt's tenant farmer. The President’s mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. John Roosevelt, and his youngest son, John, motored with him from the Roosevelt home to the gathering. Mr. Roosevelt yesterday vetoed seven more bills. Six would have added to the pension rolls of the Civil War. The President conferred today with Postmaster General Farley. It is the first time he has seen Farley since he returned from the Hawaiian Islands, Farley arrived at Hide Park with Mayor Kelly of Chicago, who came to see the President about work relief projects. Others visiting at the Hyde Park estate were Vincent Daly, head of the H. O. L. C. in New York, one of Farley's principal lieutenants in New York City, and Robert Jackson, counsel for the Internal Revenue Di- vision of the Treasury Department. Despite the politcal stripes worn by those in this group, the President insisted, while talking to the press in advance of their visit, that their coming had no political significance. FOR ROOSEVELT TRIP President Reported Planning to Use Cruiser on Return From West Coast. President Roosevelt is planning to use the cruiser Houston on his pro- posed trip from San Diego, Calif, through the Panama Canal to the East Coast, it was made known today by publication of the announcement in Army and Navy Register. At first, Secretary Swanson and Admiral Wil- liam H. Standley, chief of naval opera« tions, were reluctant to discuss the plan, preferring to permit the White House to make its own announcement, The Houston is the same cruiser that the Chief Executive used when he visited Colombis in South America, passed through the Panama Canal and went to Hawaii last Summer. Naval officials said the Houston pos- sesses particularly good quarters for high ranking officers. The President will be away from the ‘White House for at least 45 days, due to alterations now in progress. SENTIMENT IMPROVED, ASSERTS EDSEL FORD “Basic Industries Holding Up Much Better Than During Usual Seasonal Lull” By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 4 —Ed- sel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Co., said yesterday that in his opinion “the general economic sentiment is & lot better than it was.” “The basic industries are holding up much better this year during the usuak season lull,” he said at a press con= ference. In the Ford factory, he said, 25,600 more men were employed this year at the peak than last year, He estimated that about 65,000 men are mow em- ployed in the Detroit Ford plant, with 35,000 more at work elsewhere in sub sidiaries. Of the New Deal he said: “Many things were attempted perhaps too quickly to be assimilated. A good many so-called changes have had defl« nite benefits.” Ford has been spending a brief vacation in California. RIOT BEGINS ROMANCE KANSAS CITY, Kans., September 4 () —They met their future wives at a riot. Sergt. Aubrey S. Anglen, 24, and Pvt. Wayne C. McClarney, 27, of the Kansas National Guard, told about it yesterday on their return from the weddings in Southeastern Kansas. Anglen met Miss Ruth Langford, 19, and McClarney Miss Margaret Camp- bell, 18, while doing guard duty in Cherokee County, Kans., during re- cent lead and zinc mine strike dis~ orders. Ship, Overdue, Reported. MONTREAL, September 4 (#).— Overdue on her maiden voyage from. England to Montreal, the Joseph Medill, largest all-welded ship in the world, was reported yesterday by her owners as being 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. The collier left Newcastle-on-Tyne for Montreal Av.‘,