Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1935, Page 2

TUGWELL BUDGET SPEECH PUZZLING Confident Estimates Fail to Jibe With Old Deal Arithmetic. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Maybe the New Deal is about to start a department of official arithme- tic and maybe it's just a little lack of teamwork. But on the same day | that Henry Morgenthau, jr., who is supposed to be Secretary of the Treas- ury, was telling the reporters as he| came out of the White House that it | is “the President’s budget” and that he could not, therefore, discuss it/ and that nothing would be known till; January, the Hon. Rex Tugwell, who | is supposed to be Undersecretary of Agriculture, was telling an -udlencc! of enthusiastic Democrats at the op- | posite end of the country just how the budget is to be balanced by 1938. | This bit of confusion of function caused no end of gosstp here today, but if Mr. Tugwell’s figures are right, much will be forgiven. Mr. Morgenthau's reticence, or| rather reluctance, to discuss figures has | been disappointing but underaund-l able, since he will be held accountable for his predictions by an alert public opinion. But Mr. Tugwell's frankness | in explaining just how the fiscal posi- tion of the Federal Government is going to. work out so that the debt will be a mere trifle, comparatively speaking. would be the occasion today | for another “breathing spell” of con- servative joy were it not for the fact that 1t is hard to puzzle out just what his arithmetic means. if the Associ- ated Press has correctly quoted his &peech. A $600,000,000 Difference. Mr. Tugwell gives the deficit of the New Deal until the balanced budget era begins as about $11,600.000.000, when his totals should have been $12,- 200,000.000. He announced, for in- stance, that the ordinary expenses of the Government will add up to $19.- 200,000,000 and the expenses for relief | and recovery may add up to $15.000.- 000.000, which, according to Old Deal arithmetic, should provide a total of | $34,200,000,000. Then Mr. Tugwell is quoted as saying that the ordinary | receipts would be $22.000.000.000. | According to Old Deal arithmetic, this | would leave a deficit of $12,200,000.- | 000, instead of the Tugwell deficit of $11,600,000,000. | There's a difference here somewhere | of about $600.000.000, which is enough | to pay almost the entire electric light | bill of the American home for a year. | But, supposing Mr. Tugwell has been inaccurately reported and using hxs‘ deficit of $11.600.000.000, it is interest- | ing to note that he promptly subtracts what he calls the “recoverables” amounting to $5.600.000,000. This means that he expeets all the loans | made during the supposedly incom- petent Hcover administration and the selfish Old Deal to be repaid at 100 cents on the dollar aad help pay for the New Deal, and that he is also ex- pecting all the New Deal loans of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. repaid also at par. Gold “Write-up” Subtracted. Anyway, this would leave about $6.000,000,000, and then Mr. Tugwell | subtracts the “write-up" in gold, which | 5 amounts to $3.000,000,000, and he re- | marks that “from an apparent deficit | What’s What Behind News In Capital Business Is More Solid Than at Any Time in Last Five Years. BY PAUL MALLON. HE background behind the cur- rent business improvement ap- pears to be solid. There are no sensational seasonal surges in particular lines to make them stand out temporarily like roses in October. Nor are there quicksands and holes marking lags and declines. The bas-relief map of business is smoother than at any time since the depression started. It appears to have balance and strength beyond any dis- cernible in five years. At least this is the obvious con- clusion from the Government's own business chart, which attempts to bal- ance pusiness like a carpenter’s level. Production at 91 Per Cent. The chart indicates industrial pro- duction now is around 91 per cent normal, which is just about the same relation to normality existing last Jan- uary. But what is different now is that, since January, factory employ- ment has improved from 80 to 82, pay rolls from 64 to 74. department store sales 72 to 82, building 27 to 43 and prices 78.8 to 80.6. In simple words, the basis for further improvement has been laid. Bigger pay rolls mean the people will have more money to buy. When this factor ig coupled with a brisk improvement in store sales, a flve months’ strong rise in , residential building and firmer prices it means that all the cur- rent uplift stories really have THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., ROOSEVELT FACES. ISSUE OF BUDGET Opposition Sees Higher Taxes if $pending Continues. ’| By the Associated Press. In drafting the new Federal budget, President Roosevelt has run squarely up against the problem which may develop into a leading 1936 campaign issue—New Deal spending and future taxation. The issue is drawn in conflicting statements about whether new taxes will be necessary. Republican orators recently have concentrated, more and mbre, on the administration’s spending policies. Many already have pointed them out as the prime jssue for next year's election campaign. Administration critics, including Republicans, some Democrats and the American Liberty League, have said continued spending on the present scale will wreck the Treasury or re- sult in unbearable taxes for years to come. Denies Taxes Needed. In his recent budget summation, the Chief Executive said the budget was being prepared “with a view to sharply decreasing the spread between income and outgo.” Denying what he characterized as “gloomy predictions” of higher taxes, the President said the Government “will not need new taxes or increased rates in existing taxes to meet the expense of its necessary a nual operations and to retire its pub- lic debt.” These two conflicting viewpoints are accompanied by sharply contrasting assertions. The Liberty League, which speaks of heavier tax burdens in the future, something behind them at last, It indicates that production should not now fall off next month as it fell for four months after the January high. Chart Shows Situation, The trend since the first of the | year, and earlier comparative figures, may be traced in the chart which fol- lows. Each figure represents the per- centage or normality existing at the times stated. Normal is the average for 1923-25. except for prices, which are based on 1926. Each figure is sea- | sonally adjusted. (1926 equals 100.) o= &1010mg 21015 1doa Juoutkodura - a0t kg Nov Se, tober November of $11,500,000.000, a realistic calcula- | P tion comes down to a real deficit of $3.000.000,000." | Now Mr. Tugwell didn't explain what | this write-up really means or just how ! “realistic” it is, for he just called it a “gold-devalution profit” and didn't say any more about it. Actually, the Treasury just decided one day that! gold was worth much more than it had been valued and hence used the famous “write-up” system. for which various ! public utility holding companies have | been castigated by the New Deal dur- | ing the last few years, { The utilities would decide that a! eertain property had enhanced in value and they would justify their *“write-up” on the basis of alleged in- | creases in valuation. Somewhere along the line the investors had their se-| curities devalued and the over-opti- mistic guesses as to true value have now furnished us with a drastic utility law which restrains the utilities from ever doing it again. Hence the action of the New Deal in “writing up” gold end calling it profits and then using it as a means of wiping out debt is a bit inconsistent, ethically speaking. Relief Trend Higher. There is something far more signifi- eant in the Tugwell prophecies about the size of the next two budgets. For, taking his table of figures as having | at least the authenticity which such & prominent New Dealer would be ex- pected to furnish, even though he| might be for the moment usurping the powers of she Secretary of the Treasury, the trend toward lower and lower relief expenses is emphasized. If one takes the estimate for the two coming fiscal vears and subtracts the ordinary expenses, the remainder would indicate, according to the Tug- well forecast, only $2,300,000,000 for Telief and recovery, or less than $1,- 150,000,000 a vear, which is a very splendid projection to anticipate. The latest figures show that the ex- | penses for selief and recovery in 1935 | have exceeded 1934 and are running | ahead even at this time when the | President has been announcing a very | beavy increase in re-employment. Just what it all means to the future is im- | possible to say, but the Tugwell pre- diction of a balanced budget in 1938 is good news, even though it has not yet been officially confirmed by Sec- retary Morgenthau. For the general belief is that Mr. Tugwell would not have used the figures if the President had not authorized them and that the New Deal slogan of the 1936 campaign 18 going to be “a balanced budget Ly 1938—we planned it t| (Copyright. o “WELL” BABY THRIVING Mother Progressing Following Birth Below Earth's Surface. SANFORD, N. C, October 30 (#).— Franklin Woodrow Jordan, the baby born under water in a well, was 8 days old today and Dr. J. F. Foster, the family physician, said he was thriving normally. He and his mother, Mrs. Alton L. Jordan, 26-year-old wife of a Lee County farmer, have returned home from the county hospital here. Mrs. Jordan was reported by Dr. Foster to be progressing satisfaetorily. Dr. Foster himself was engaged in preparing for medical journals an account of one of the most remarkable births recorded. While drawing water from a well last Tuesday, Mrs. Jor- dan fainted and fell into it. Before her husband discovered her 45 minutes later feebly struggling to keep her head above water, she had given birth to a son, March April Mav June July Aueust September _ Octoter* *Unofficial 43 | What has happened specifically to fill in the business gaps lately is the improvement in durable goods. There was no sign of a let-up in their de- pression until June. Since then ma- chine tools have picked up, as have cement, lumber, all building materials. Also cotton consumption troubles are | being smoothed over. That index was ' up 10 points, from 85 in August to| 95 in Septembers. Official figures will | shortly be issued showing a further increase in October. Iron and steel activity continues fairly strong in an extra-seasonal range. There will be no substan- tial decrease in steel because auto- mobile production now is moving fast. Auto output for October will to twice that of September. Little change has been noticeable in | bituminous coal production . . . an- thracite is up with a belated seasonal | rise . . . non-durable like tobacco show no change . . . leather and shoes reg- istered less than seasonal increases during the last 60 days. (M PLUM ROUD - OF YE, SON Rural zales show a greater increase than the city department stores. The adjusted rural index for September was 195 per cent of the 1928-1931 averages. A year ago the index was 98.8 per cant. Total sales were larger this September than for any period since 1929. The experts here say this is due to the good price level and larger crops, rather than the benefit | payments. City department stores sold 12 per cent more the first half of Oc- tober than they did .last year. Their price level was up about a point from 85.7 in August to 86.6 in September. Any one who is waiting for the 1ailroads to come back had better take a chair. The freight loadings index is the only basic fastor which failed to show a further approach to normality this year. At 64 per cent it is far better off than building at 43 per eent, although its immediate prospects are not as bright. However, miscellaneous loadings have lately in- creased. This classification repre- sents the more active movement of business goods. Prices Leveling Off. The passing of the European war scare will relax the inflationary pres- sure on prices. The current trend is toward a slight leveling off. Copper, chemicals and wheat are what forced the index up during September. There has been no substantial change lately in general retail prices, or in foods. Ccenfidential Government figures in- dicate an improvement in employment for every month since January. The Ayers index excepts one month, the A. F. of L. two. It is obvious again that unemployment figures are not moving in unison with employment and relief statistics. Apparently, people are living more' transparently. The activity in plate glass production is %hanmuul. Pro- also contends “taxes can be increased COURT KEEPS BOY; WOMAN SCREAMS Mrs. Muench Ejected From Court, Shouting “Nero! Nero!” at Judge. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, October 30.—Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, central figure in a parentage dispute over a 10-week-old “gift of God” baby, was ejected from the Circuit Court of Appeals today as she screamed her defiance of a court order that the baby be_held as evi- dence. N The former St. Louis soclety woman, whose right to the infant has been questioned by Anna Ware, an unwed servant girl who claims it as her own, brought the child to court today in compliance with an order. A few minutes after she ran the gantlet of boos from spectators and seated herself in the court room with the child, Presiding Judge William Dee Becker, who assumed charge of the case previously handled by a spe- cial commissioner, ordered the infant held as evidence, to be kept in a hos- pital when it was not in court, and not to be viewed by either Mrs. Muench or Anna Ware. Woman Ordered Out. As he read the order Mrs. Muench leaped to her feet, screaming, “Don't do it. You can't do it, you can't, you can't.” Making himself heard over her screams, Judge Becker turned to court attaches and ordered, “Take her out. Mr. Marshal. Take that woman out of the court room, absolutely.” Uniformed police led the still- screaming Mrs. Muench from the court room. “They've taken my baby. Nero! Nero!"” she shouted as she was led to a small office off the court room. She continued to weep loudly in the practically only by including smnllefl‘ame room and she could be heard in incomes which are now exempt” be- cause “soaking the rich cannot pay the enormous expenses this adminis- tration is piling up.” Revenue Estimates Secret. On the other hand, Treasury ex- perts assert the Federal income is now virtually back to the post-war level of $4.000,000,000 a year, which per- mitted former Secretary Melion to retire the debt at the rate of about | $1,000,000.000 a year. While closely guarding the official estimates of revenue for the next few years, Treasury officials contend ex- isting tax rates may be expected to yield at least $5,500,000,000 in a year | of normal business activity, and as | high as $7,000,000,000 in an abnormal | year such as 1928. | Even next year, Treasury officials say they expect an income large enough to take care of a considerable relief program in addition to provid- ing for the normal expenditures of the Government. They point out that li(hl.! year's $4,000,000,000 income is based largely on last vear's much lower level of business activity. The Liberty League concedes ex- isting taxes will soon provide suf- ficient revenue to finance all legiti- mate expenditures, including neces- sary relief, “if unsound spending poli- | cles are abandoned.” But it says “the record of the ad- ministration with respect to the bud- get offers little reason for hope that | great significance can be attached” | to the President’s promise of “sharply | decreasing the spread between in- | come and outgo.” | The league agrees that revenues ;| during the current and subsequent fiscal years will be greater than in any period since the World War, be- cause of “a tremendous increase in | tax burdens.” ‘ Hull ued From First Page) | of applying an eventual blockade will fall, are still worried about the at- titude of the United States in case the British fleet should receive a mandate from the League of Nations to prevent, by force if necessary, the shipping of all kinds of commodities into Italy. Ethlopia does not come into consideration, since all her wants can be supplied from Europe, as the League has lifted all restrictions against her. The restatement of policy by the Secretary of State is necessarily in- terpreted a. a gesture to indicate this country will not be in the way of any sanctions the League may con- sider itself compelled to apply. Liberty League (Continued From First Page.) tion about the Liberty League com- mittee’s activities. ‘The committee’'s first attempt to judge the constitutionality of New Deal legislation was published Sep- tember 18. Decisions on measures other than the Wagner law were con- templated at the time. Other measures which would be considered, the committee announced, were the utility holding company, so- clal security, Guffey coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Farm Adjustment securities exchange laws. Earl F. Reed, chairman of the sub- committee which drafted the report on the Wagner law, sald that “in making our opinion known publicly we are doing a patriotic duty in an- swering the inquries of many persons and perhaps hastening a determina- tion of this question by the judicial branch of the Government.” Secretary Ickes, the only adminis- tration official to take cognizance-of the committee’s action, challenged the propriety of a group of lawyers sit- ting in judgment on cases not yet decided by the Supreme Court. Frederick McKenney, Washington member of the league Lawyer's Com- mittee, said he understood the secre- tary of the Grievance Committee of the Bar Association had requested the Lawyers' Committee to state its ob- jects and purposes, but had heard nothing since. “I don’t believe they possibly could do it,” McKenney said, with reference to the report that lawyers had been cited to appear before the Geevance Committee. Rain Starts Fire. Rain caused a fire recently in Glamis, Scotland, when it fell on paper bags of lime at a new housing project, the mixture of water and lime producing heat which ignited the bags and in turn fired a building. duction for September was 179 per cent of the 1923-25 averages. A year ago it was 84. Increased use of glass in autos and housing is probably re- sponsible. s (Copyright. 1985.) Administration, communications and ! the court room. Meanwhile the baby, in custody of a nurse employed by the court, was taken to another ante room, there to be viewed by witnesses in the case. Birth in Dispute. Mrs. Muench announced the birth of her son, calling it a “gift from God in my time of despair,” the morning of August 18. At the time she was preparing her successful defense against & kidnaping charge. Investigators learned a child had | been born to Anna Ware and taken | from her the night of August 17, a | few hours before the birth was an- | nounced in the Muench home. A sub- to the present case, wherein Miss | Ware, through a habeas corpus ap- | plication, claimed as her own the in- fant who has been in the fashionable | Muench home. What tests would be made of the child, and whether it would be held | in custody of the court pending ruling | on its parentage, could not be foretold. It was expected Miss Ware's counsel would ask for photographing and fingerprinting of the baby and also for tests to determine if its hair had been dyed. [G. A. R. CHIEF OF STAFF, J. H. CAMPBELL, DIES Illinoisan, 88, Was Wounded in Action in 1865—Retired From Business in 1925, | By ths Associated Press. | CHICAGO, October 30.—James H. | Campbell, -national chief of staff of the Grand Army of the Republic, died here yesterday at the age of 88. grand marshal of the G. A. R. Memo- rial Association. From 1931 to 1933 he was commander of the Illinois De- partment. He bore the title of colonel in the G. A. R. Campbell joined the 47th New York Volunteers at Oswego, N. Y., in 1865, and was wounded in action the same year. Mustered out shortly before the end of the war, he came to Chicago, later going to Joliet, Ill. Campbell re- | tired from business in 1925, —_— SHIP FIRE CURBED BOSTON, October 30 (#).—Fire aboard her apparently under control, the steamer Exarch was proceeding on her course today. Capt. B. A. Jacobsen, her master, reported her afire yesterday approx- imately 750 miles east of New York and asked vessels in the vicinity to stand by, There was no request for assistance and later wireless advices reported the fire under “temporary control.” Steel Man—Both in Early 70s. By the Associated Press. CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y., October 30. —Mrs. Mina Miller Edison, widow of the inventor, and Edward E. Hughes of Franklin, Pa.,, childhood friends, ‘were married at noon today to the strains of a wedding march from Chautauqua’s bell tower. Rev. Arthur H. Brown, a Methodist minister from East Orange, N. J., Mrs. Edison’s home, performed the cere- mony. The couple left on a motor trip of several months, but they would not reveal where they were going. Mrs. Edison has been coming to Chautauqua Institution since it was founded in 1874 by her father, Lewis Miller, an Akron, Ohio, manufacturer, and Dr. John H. Vincent, later Metho- dist bishop. The Miller and Hughes cottages were only & few doors from each other and the boy and the girl became fast friends. She married the famous in- ventor in 1886. He died in 1931. Mr. Hughes' wife died in 1932 and later the childhood friendship was renewed. Both are in the early 70s. Only immediate members of the Edison and the Hughes families and 8 few close friends were present. Among the guests were Mrs. Halbert K. Hitchcock of Pittsburgh, sister of Mrs. Edison, and a brother, Edward Miller of Akron, Ohio. Mrs. Edison wore a simple white chiffon gown and the cottage was decorated in white roses and white chrysanthemums. There were no at- tendants. Whether the couple would live at the Edison home in East Orange or at the home of Hughes in Franklin ‘was not revealed. The bridegroom is s wealthy retired steel manufacturer and lawyer, o sequent grand jury investigation lrd| He also was holding the position of | Edison’s Widow and Playmate Of Childhood Are Married E. E. Hughes Is Retired | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1935. This Boeing bomber crashed today on a test flight, injuring five men, MILITIA PATROLS MINE RIOT SCENE Kentucky Machine Gun Unit on Duty in Mannington After Battle. By the Associated Press MANNINGTON, Ky, October 30.— |A machine gun unit of Kentucky National Guardsmen patrolled the Williams mine here today, scene of a bloody, one-sided vattle late yesterday between mine guards and a band of some 600 to 700 union sympathizers. One man, Enos Martin, 31, of Crof- ton, Ky., was reported dying from a gunshot wound received during the | | encounter. He was one of the band | | of marchers who swarmed toward the | mine entrance in defiance of an order to halt. The invaders were quickly routed by a fusillade of machine gun fire and tear gas bombs. Eight or ten men fell from wounds in hands and feet. Martin, and Henry Hollins, 65, colored, were taken to hospitals with body wounds. Hollins’ condition was not regarded as serious. Promise to Come Back. Members of the band of marehers who expressed determination to get in > the mine and “talk union” to | the non-union employes, said they would comé back “as soon as the boys |in the tin hats are gone.” Representatives of the mine owners in Western Kentucky who have not | been operating under United Mine ‘Worker.s of America contracts, hows ever, expressed equal determination to keep the organizers off their property. | Referring to the “march.” one | spokesman for a non-union operating | concern said, “they'll get the same | kind of a reception if they try to get on our property.” } The band of marchers in yester- | day's encounter came flom nearby | Muhlenberg County, where 8 majority | of the coal miners belong to the United Mine Workers of America. Charge Forcible Exclusion. Leaders of this organization claim that in the past they have been | forcibly kept from getting a foothold | in Kentucky, both in the soft-coal | | mines of the west section and in| the Eastern Kentucky mountains, by | a combination of local authorities ' and the mine owners. | John L Lewis. national president | of the United Mine Workers, in ad- dressng a political gathering at Pike- ville Monday, said that Kentucky had | been “set free” during the Roosevelt | administration from anti-union forces that prevented “peaceable assembly"— except in Harlan County. ! Mine Supt. Kenneth Snarr related that the battle yesterday was pre- cipitated when two of the marchers | fired pistols. C. M. Morgan of Graham, who suffered gas burns on the hands and face, declared that none of the demonstrators fired a | shot. POST OFFERED JOHNSON NEW YORK, October 30 (P.—Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson was described today as favorable to an invitation to be- come “czar” of the dress industry | tendered by Samuel Oxhorn, presi- dent of the United Dress Manufac- | turers’ Association. Two thousand contractors produc- ing 80 to 85 per cent of the cresses in the metropolitan area are members. Reports placed the offered remuner- ation at $60.000 a year. Oxhorn said he expected a definite decision in a day or two. | 3 e | MRS. MINA MILLER EDISON, . PRES | meister and E. W. Warning In response to inquiries from merchants and citizens who have been ited for advertisements in an “‘Official’ Halloween Pro- gram,” the Washington Board of Trade, which is sponsoring this celebration through its Greater National Capital Com- mittee, announces that it has not—nor will it—produce a printed program in connection therewith and solicitations by the Washington Board of Trade for advertisements in this, or any other program, is distinctly against its policy. Further, the Washington Board of Trade is in no way connected with appeals to the public for the support of private benefits of any kind, DENT LEAVES CAPITAL TONIGHT Due to Remain at His Hyde Park Home About a Week. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt will leave Wash- | ington on a special train late tonight for his home at Hyde Park, N. Y. | | the where he will remain until after elec- tion day, November 5. The President's visit will be divided between work and rest. He will take with him a skeleton force of assist- ants, which will include Stephen Early, one of his secretaries; Miss | Marguerite Le Hand, his personal sec- retary: Miss Grace Tully, Henry Kan- ney and Miss Dorothy Jones of the executive stafl. and Miss Louise Hack- Smithers of the White House telephone and telegraph division. Preparatory to his getting away tonight, President Roosevelt was en- gaged in clearing his desk of as much routine business as possible and with conferences with department assis- tants. The most important confer- ence was one scheduled this afternoon with Secretary of the Treasury Mor- ganthau and E. W, Bell, acting budget director. This will be the second con- ference on the budget the President has held with these two officials this week. During the morning Mr. Rooseveit heard from Rudolf S. Hecht, presi- dent of the American Bankers' As- sociation, that “general business sta- tistics continue to show an increase in activity.” The banker, in turn, asked the Pres- ident to diminish Government activ- ities in the financial field as fast as conditions permit. Asked about the President’s reaction. Hecht recalled that Mr. Roosevelt & year ago had talked of less Federal financial operations and he expressed ‘l;hz! the Chief Executive still favored is. No Engagements Made. Mr. Roosevelt has made no engage- ments thus far to confer with any of | his cabinet members or administration | heads at Hyde Park, but it is expected that before he returns to Washington | he will send for at least two or three | of these. The President will cast his ballot in the village of Hyde Park next Tuesday, and he is now watching with interest thie campaign being con- ducted in his native State by the Democrats to maintain their present control of the New York Assembly. While this election is of little gen- eral interest outside of the State, the outcome will be looked upon as being of considerable significance if the Democrats should lose. The event would be heralded as a forerunner of what might be expected to follow in November, 1936. Mrs. Roosevelt, who is In Chicago today, will join her husband in Hyde Park Sunday. 'WRECK OF PLANE HINTS AT TRAGEDY Naval Craft Without Flyer or Passenger Towed Ashore at Annapolis. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., October 30.—The wreckage of a Navy plane of the same type that took off from Dover, Del., during the forenoon, was found in Chesapeake Bay near here today dur- ing a break in a heavy fog over the area, No trace of the pilot or a passenger was seen by the crew of a tugboet which sighted the wrecked plane, towed it to a wharf and notified offi- cials of the Naval Academy. Seven seaplanes and eight sub- chasers from the Naval Academy were sent to the spot where the wreckage was found, off Hacketts Point, about 5 miles from the Annapolis Harbor. The wreckage, half the lower right wing and two wheels, was found by the tug Margaret, owned by the Cott- man Co. of Baltimore. Seamen on the bay had reported they heard a crash about 10 a.m. Navy officials said the wreckage seemed to be that from a single- seated fighter. Navv men said it apparently was an PF-4-B-3 or an F-4-B-4 type Navy plane. No planes of that type ere stationed at the academy. ' DOVER, Del,, October 30 (#).—The Navy plane which took off from Dover Airport today, reported overdue on & flight to Virginia, was piloted by Lieut. M. M. Marple, jr., of Dahlgren, Va. Lieut. Marple landed the plane at the airport last night, and left again shortly after 9 a.m., today. The air- port is on the farm of D. M. Wilson, 3 —A. P. Photo. 2,000,000 108 AIM SPURRING HOPKINS W. P. A, Head Driving Staff to Assure End of Relief December 1. Under the necessity of creating 2,- 000.000 more jobs within the next month, Harry L. Hopkins, Works | Progress administrator, was spurring his huge staff to greater efforts to- | day in order to fulfill the assurances | given President Roosevelt that he would be able to stop all direct relef | by December 1. ‘The President discussed the pres- |ent program and the future of relief Ickes, plblic works administrator, but came to no conclusions as to the | amount that would be included in the | new budget. $430,000 to D. C. Credit. ‘The direct upshot of the White House conference will be another | scramble to get Controller General McCarl to release the remainder of the work-relief funds in the Treasury. A check today showed the District of Columbia still has $430.000 to its credit in the Treasury, which has vet to be advanced to Commissioner George E. Allen. | has accounted for every cent that President and McCarl have released for employment in the District, $3.234.822. but the District quota in the Treasury has not all | been conveyed. In project value the |entire program submitted by the | District administrator totaled $13,- 003.555. Hopkins confidently assured the President that the work-relief drive would reach the 3,500,000 job goal by December 1, permitting liquidation | of the relief administration. | With six States already off direct {relief, the remainder are to receive November grants while Hopkins hunts for the 67.000 jobs a aay necessary | to attain his ultimate goal. Ickes Won't Predict. On the other hand, Ickes, with his 'usual caution, refused to join in pre- assertion that next year's relief pro- |gram would not swing back 0 the | dole, the Public Works administrator of predictions. New difficulties arose today in the path of the P. W. A. program. Ickes warned that unless all P. W. A. proj- ects were under way by December 15, the deadline fixed by the President for start of all works relief projects un- der contract. funds would go else- where, except under unusual circum- stances. Controller General McCarl |also was disclosed to have declined |P. W. A. allotments for highway con- struction if they are located on Fed- eral aid systems, NAVY CONSTRUCTION RUSHED BY SWANSON Secretary's Orders Two Months Ago Without Relation to International Crisis. ! By the Associated Press. | Orders to speed up naval construc- | tion were disclosed today to have been | sent out to Navy Yard commandants | “some two months ago” by Secretary Swanson, A department statement, comment- ing on reports the orders might have a bearing on the present international situation, said they “did not relate to the present international situation or to any approaching naval conference or naval conversations.” “On the contrary,” the statement said, “the letter was written two months ago and was predicated entire- 1y upon the desire of the Navy Depart- ment to speed up all Navy Yard works with a view toward doing the Navy Yard's part in the relief of unemploy- ment and to make the best use of all emergency funds allocated for this purpose.” result of dissatisfaction with the ture of $238,000.000 of N. R. A. money struction of ships. . CONTROL BOX FLASH BURNS 33 ON CAR Los Angeles Motorman Sticks to Post With Clothes Afire and Passengers in Panic. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, sudden spurt of flames from a street | car control box left 33 persons nursing | painful burns today. A short circuit apparently caused the sudden blast which sprayed flames over passengers and Motorman R. J. Crothers as the car rounded a turn in downtown Los Angeles late yesterday. With his clothes ablaze, Crothers stayed at the controls until the car was stopped. Screaming passengers fought their way out through windows and the rear exit. Thirty-three persons were taken by ambulances and police cars to an emergency hospital where all but two were treated and sent home. Men Outnumber Coeds. FORT COLLINGS, Colo. (#).—Col- orado State College coeds are worry- ing more about how to keep their dates separated than where the dates are to come from, on account of the ratio of man to woman students is approximately 3 to 1. There are 1,250 masculine students, 456 women, N LS. CHARGES A &P. WITH CONSPIRACY Accused of Maintaining “Dummy” Brokerage and Collecting Fees. By the Associated Press. Conspiracy to maintain a “dummy” brokerage office for the purchase of meats, in violation of the law. has been charged against the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. by the Sec- retary of Agriculture in an official proceeding under the packers and stockyards act. The complaint, disclosed today, charges that C. J. Noell, described as a salaried employe of the A. & P, has been collecting “brokerage fees" on meat and meat products purchased from packing houses, not only by & P., but by some of its competitor and turning the net of these collece tions into the A. & P. treasury. Dur- | ing this time, according to the com- plaint, Noell has been representing himself falsely as an independent broker. It is charged that this is violation of a section of the act which make it unlawful for “any packer” to engage in any “deceptive practice or device” in commerce, the complaint arguing that the A. & P. is a “packer” under the definition in the law yesterday with Hopkins and Harold L. | | It was revealed today that Allen' dictions. Asked about Hopkins' recent | | would say only, “I'm always very short | Navy officials said the order was the | progress being made in the expendi- | given the Navy in 1933 for the con- | October 30.—A i Hearing Scheduled Here. The respondent corporation, main- | taining chain stores in many cities throughout the cor s a Maryland | corporation, with headq i timore. It was giver 11 to answer the charges and a hear- ing was set for December 2 in Wash- ington. The citation was signed on | October 21 by Assistant Secretary M. L. Wilson as Acting Secretary of Agrie culture. | Among other things, the complaint alleges: ! That Noell has been for many years and still is an employe of A. &. P, | "actively engaged in respondent's service.” That A. & P. “conspired and ar- ranged” with Noell to “falsely repres sent” himself as an independent broker. | That subsequent to January 1, 1932, Noell has received orders from various packers, including persons competing with A. & P. in retail selling. Claims Fees Went to A. & P. That Noell collected 1, 2 and 3 per cent in fees on s sales, all of which he remitted to A. & P., except for the amount of his salary and office exe penses. This, says the complaint, also vioe lated another section of the act which makes it unlawful to establish “any undue or reasonable preference or ade vantage” in trade Dractices. “By and through the operation of the said arrangement.” says the com= plaint, “the respondent did buy large quantities of meat and meat food ! products from such packers at prices less than were paid by other persons in competition with respondent who bought their meat and meat food products through Noell, in that re- | spondent knew that Noell would not {and did not remit to its competitors purchasing meat and meat food prode- | ucts through him any part of the orokerage fees received by him wun sales made by him to them.” | ‘The law provides that when the | Secretary of Agriculture finds there has been a violation of the law ke shall, after hearing, issue an order to “cease and desist” from the practica complained of; and that this order shall be “final and conclusive” unless reversed by the courts. WIFE ASKS DIVORCE 'L. V. Coleman of Washington Is Charged With Desertion. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE. Md, October 30— | Laurence V. ,Coleman of Washington is named defendant in a suit for an | absolute divorce filed in the Circuit Court here by Martine W. Coleman of this county, who charges she was de- | serted June 22, 1932. ‘The petition sets forth that the couple were married June 23, 1917, and have three children: Kenyon. 17; Frank Thaddeus, 12, and Richard Pratt, 8. The plaintiff asks to be awarded custody of the youngest child, — — Program Four Years 0ld. October brought the fourth birthday anniversary of Aunt Sue and Polly, | one of Washington's oldest radio pro- grams. A feature of the occasion was the radio address of J. A. Eisenbeiss, president of the Charles Schneider Baking Co.. who also officiated at tne | cutting of the huge illuminated birthe day cake. ‘| Irvin S. Cobb Says: Wild Geese Are Nearly on a Par With Wild Motorists. SANTA MONICA. Calif., October 30—How often a fellow has to go away from home to get the news about himself. Upton Sinclair was halfway across the conti- nent wren he dis- covered he was through for ever | with running for office. And out here we were try- ing so hard to keep it from him just a little while longer! ‘When they have | to organize traf- fic laws to keep wild geese from commit'ing unin- tentionul suicide in Niagara Falls, it proves wild geese are slipping 8o fast that eventually they may grade as low in the discretion scale as the average spdeding motorist. ‘We must be careful about gunning this Fall—might shoot one of the Roosevelt boys by mistake. ‘Those divine Dionne quintuplets have gone on a meat diet, while all creation applauds. Since it's agreed that the sweetest-smelling thing in the world is that little roll of fat at the back of a nice, clean baby's neck, what would you give to hold that won~ derful five-of-a-kind and just sniff re- gardless? And to think, if they'd been born on this side of the line, by now we'd have at least two of ‘em plowed under and the rest being processed! (Copyright. 1935.) s