Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1935, Page 2

A—2 weww LIBERAL COALITION . URGED AT SESSION “Production for Use” Plat- form Suggested at Milwaukee. . By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, December 2.—Dele- gates of nine liberal political groups today that all liberals con- solidate their voting strengta behind .a single slate of candidates and a “production for use” platform. The project, which would remove the Socialist, column from ballots for State, county and city offices, was drafted at the two-day organization meeting of the Farm-Labor Progres- sive Federation. The conference was “sponsored by the Wisconsin State Fed- eration of Labor. Thomas M. Dunean, secretary to Gov. Philip F. La Follette, explained the federation’s aim was to unify liberals on eommon ground instead of fighting against their own causes by balloting on a wide range of candi- _dates, all avowedly liberals. Te Determine Viewpoints. Delegates will determine their mem- bership's attitude within 90 days for final action on agreement. * Duncan said the federation would endeavor to elect candidates chosen by the federation and listed under the .progressive heading on the ballot. The _federation would map the platform .and solidify the groups, but the vari- .ous parties otherwise could keep their identities. “The action,” Dunecan said, “is sim- {lar to that in Minnesota when the Farmer-Labor party was organized in 19247 | Socialist “Surrender.” . Whether the Socialist party, for -more than two decades a dominant factor in Milwaukee politics, would surrender its name on the ballot was -termed “hi debatable” by Max Raskin, Socialist city attorney of Mil- | -waukee. Representative Thomas R. Au.mz,l Progressive, of Wisconsin expressed the belief there would be general rasi- | fication of the agreement. He said there was “at least 85 per cemt ac- cord” at the conference. Amlie is a leader in the national movement for formation of a liberal party. CORONER CONVINCED MAN WAS KILLED Starts Checking Stories After Dis- covery of Body of Girl's Suitor in New York. By the Associated Press. NEW CITY, N. Y., December 2.— Coroner J. William Giles of Rockland County announced today he is con- vinced Leroy Smith, found dead neat the home of a 17-year-old girl with whom he had been friendly, was slain. As Dr. Giles sought to refute state- ments by some State police that Smith committed suicide, District Attorney “George V. Darsey said he would start today rechecking the stories of all persons he questioned immediately after discovery of the body a week ago last Thursday. Smith apparently had died of & bullet wound the pre- vious Saturday night. Certain discrepancies in the stories, including that of the girl, Mrs. Mary Swope’, Philpot, estranged from her husband, needed clearing up, the dis- KURTZ FACES HEARING ON PLANE VIOLATIONS Cross-Country Flyer Summoned to Appear at Los Angeles To- day to Answer Charges. By the Associated Press. | J. 8. Marriott, Bureau of Air Com- merce inspector, said yesterday the hearing does not indicate Kurtz will be grounded. “He allowed the lice: Advertising Director Dead. CHICAGO, December 2 (#.—Irwin 8. Rosenfels, 63, for 10 years advertis- What’s What Behind News In Capital Confidence Boosting Business With Prospect of Continued Gain. BY PAUL MALLON. EST business seers here feel reasonably certain the curzent general improvement will com= tinue through December, They are doing no guessing beyon logical way for business to go 1936 but up. For instance, the force behind the current uplift is improvement in the hesvy (fron, steel, metals, lumber, glass, the things which go inte machinery, building, furniture, automobiles). demand for that type of goods. Two opposite lines of it are notadle, automobiles and residential build- a new year peak, but building cer- tainly is not. It is still so low that its major inflymce on general busi- If you will trace these two examples to the full depth of their roots, you will find that both spring from in- creasing confidence, Purchases of homes and autos are sufficiently con- fident of their existing income to create a stronger buying demand. | Builders of homes and autos, seeinga prospect of profit, are becoming more confident in planning their produe- tion. This tendency has been noted in autos before, but not until com- paratively recently in building or in other heavy lines (ma- chine tools, agricultural implements, This buying and profit confidence is not yet solidly ormal. The only thing which might reasonably be ex- pected to hinder its growth next year, however, would be something nation- ally depressing. A lot of such possibilities ezist, but they have been generally recog- nized for a long time (unbalanced budget, bonus, monetary situation, Townsend movement). No ome seems to be much excited about them. At least, the growth of con- fcence has Deen accomplished straight in the face of them. A balanced view of the way things are going now may be gained from the monthly business chart used by Government officials and economists. It shows a eomtinuous improvement in all lines since May, as follows: (Noie—Each figure is seasonally ad- justed and represents the percentage of normal activity -existing at the | times stated. Normal is 100 based on the averages for the three years 1923-25.) BEEER5YA N 1935 Pel AR R AR B3 Bubhkdiskebinagorie e N aARRB ] 3= AR 38 3 Eitsetamor @RmARRREDmD 2999390 B s N1 e D b st Employment Increase. The growth of employment and pay rolls in the heavy goods industries lately is a significant step, because that is where the bulk of unemploy- ment lies. Miss Perkins' Bureau of Labor Statistics has figures indicating that | employment in durable goods averaged about 75 per cent this October and about 63 a year ago; pay rolls about 66 this October, compared with 46 last year. ‘The non-durables show 96.4 per purchasing power improvement Jast year has therefore been mainly in durables. There is plenty room left for improvement in that THE EVENING ST:&R, WASHINGTON, D. ‘C.. MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1935. Killed Father ||H0G PRODUCTION Young Mind Reader Amazes EXPERTS CONSIDER ADDED CORRCION SEEN INNEW LAW Guffey Coal Measure and Pending Viagner Bill Hit by Observer. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Prof. Thomas N. Carver of Harvard thinks the New Deslers are mot en- titled to the name “lberals,” and he insists they ought to be called “coer- clonists.™ have contracts unless they agree to buy coal from companies that have mo{Mthznmm be a certification by all bidders that acs, or that a dealer who offers auto- | mobiles to the Government tan certify that the coal he himself - uses is Guffey-mined coal. But, if this is done, then the plain intent of the law passed by Congress is defeated, Must Make Affidavit. Under the law, every contractor who buys materials for a pubilc building must make an affidavit swearing that the companfes from which he buys materials used Guffey- mined coal. It is within the power of the Pederal Government thus indi- rectly to control the labor standards {and the code provisions of all coal companies, because, even though the latter might refuse to accept the high penalty tax imposed on them and even though they may have gone to court to restrain the act as being unconstitutional, the Federal Govern- ment, through the enormous power directly and indirectly involved in making purchases, can force coal companies to comply or face certain ruin. Railroads. moreover, cannot afford to lose Government mail contracts, and yet they may have been buying their coal more cheaply than would comply with the Guffey code. It has been estimated that the total coal Bill of the railroads will be increased to somewhere between $20,000,000 and $60,000,000 a year on account of the | feel compelled to buy coal from com- | panies which, under the Guffey law, Firms May Refuse to Bid. As for various supplies, it is con- ceivable that the larger manufac- turers may refuse to bid on Govern- ment requirements, and, in the end, the Government will not only get in- ferior quality but will have to pay a higher price. Thus, the taxpayer will be compelled to meet the ex- | pense not of purchases made at the ing from anybody who doesn’t certain labor standards, unquestionably the codes such as the N. possibly price-fixing weil. If the Guffey act statutes that would make the Federal authority absolutely powerful in con- trolling what industry shall charge and what labor’s wages shall be. Some Iabor leaders foresee the trend 8 £f, Z5E68 | EES | £ gh! gs be the case from companies that now | HAUGEMAN (ABRAM) FALIN —A. P. Photo. WISE KILLING HELD N SELF DEFENSE Prosecutor Says Boy Who Shot Sire Seems to Have Good Case. By the Associated Press. WISE, Va, December 2—The mother of Haugeman Falin, 16-year- old mountain boy held in the killing of his father, came to her son's aid today with a declaration that the act was in self-defense. She told Sherift J. Preston Adams that her husband knecked down the | youth Priday with a pistol during an argument over their automobile. | The elder Palin, she said, threatened to “finish the little her: “If you butt in, I'll kill you, too.” Thought Sen Was Slain. She ran from their house in Wild- cat Valley, she said, and was cowering behind a tourist cabin when she heard shots. She thought her son had been killed. Young Falin remained in jail here, | without bond, while his mother sought to perfect defense plans. She had not | retained an attorney. Commonwealth’s Attorney, Fred B, | Greear, who last month prosecuted a | similar case resulting in the convie- tion of Edith Maxwell, said “The shot Charles Bishop at Duf- Tal years ago, and another year-old Edith Maxweil supported her daughter’s self-defense ples after the girl was accused of beating her father to death with a slipper. He had threat- ened to whip her for staying out until midnight. A jury convicted Miss Maxwell, and she is in jail pending an appeal from @ 25-year sentence. FUTURE IS BRIGHT Ends First Year of Six-Year Term Confident of Increased s Progress. * By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, December 2.—Presi- dent Lazaro Cardenas, completing the accomplished thing we set out to do for various rea- sons,” the President said, “but with the experience we have gained and the knowledge we now possss, I am sure He spent the day with his wife and son at their home in Cuernavaca. NORRIS TRIAL DELAYED ‘Grocer’s’ Prosecution in Lincoln, Nebr., Waits Until December 9. 5 STEPPED P Details of New Contracts Announced—*‘Balanced” Farming Is Aim. B the Associated Press. that “Balanced” farm- ing is their aim, A. A. A. officials made public today details of the 1936-1987 contracts offered farmers for coim-hog econtrel. ‘The contracts, effective as of yester- day, are designed to inerease hog pro- duction by 30 per eent in 1936 A shortage of hogs has led to higher prices, with protests from consumers. A study of processing taxes, mean- while, indicated to Dr. A. G. Black, Agriculture Department’s chief econo- mist, that the taxes “have been passed on to the consumer,” or taken from the farmers’ potential returns and not absorbed by the proeessors. tion of hogs and his base corn acreage. 2. The contracting farmer will be permitted to raise 100 per cent of the hog base. 3. He will be required to keep his corn acreage 10 to 30 per cent under his base. 4. A producer will receive $1.25 ben- efit payment for each hog In his base for 1936. : 5. Corn benefits will be at the rate of 35 cents a bushel for 1936. must grow at least 25 per cent of the base corn acerage to qualify | for payments. | Acres taken out of ecorn production must be planted in soil improving or erosion preventing crops. Aims of the new program, the A. A. A said, are to balance the corn erop with live stock feeding requirements; to encourage better balanced cropping | systems; to maintain a balance be- tween producer and consumer inter- ests, and to restore the balance in production between regions adversely affected by weather during the last two years. -D§ , | standardizing charges for processing }md handling, and deciding upon | minimum prices to be paid to the | farmers.™ | | {ROTATING COLLEGES Officers of Young Israel Announce Program to Operate in Seven Cities. | By the Assoctated Press. CINCINNATI, December 3.—Of- ficers of Young Israel, a Jewish youth | movement, announced today a Bhn| for the opening of rotating colleges for branches of their organisation in cities of the United States and| Canada. One already is in operation in New York, serving 665 students, said Moses H. Hoenig, New York, president. Four-night-a-week courses in Jew- established, CARDENAS DECLARES | nocheser, . pected to begin January 12. Hoenig estimated 10,000 students would be enrolled within two yeass, 250 instructors, at an esti- mated expenditure of $35,000 yearly. Members of the faculty will “rotate™ in their assignments, Hoenig ex- plained, adding that plans call for instruction on subjects be simul- taneous in all cities. FORMER MRS. RYAN WED TO OLD SUITOR Countess von Wurmbrand-Styp- pach and Count Palffy Off on Honeymoon to India. By the Associated Press. BRATISLAVA, Csechoslovakia,. De- cember 2.—Countess Marie-Anne von Wurmbrand-Stuppach, the former Mrs. Clendenin Ryan, was married secretly a fortnight ago to her child- ’ TELESCOPE THREATENED SOON TO FUNCTION Foley t the typewriter after visiting the COLDERWEATHER 5 UE TONGHT Mercury Expected to Drop to 24 Degrees by Tomor- row Morning. shelter floors last night and many more fortunate individuals who own auto- mobiles today rued their failure to protect car radiators. ‘The temperature dropped during the this morning—not the coldest this degree mark of November 24. At 10:15 am. today, the thermome- ter had risen only 4 degrees from the early morning minimum. Shelters Crowded. Several organizations which take care of transients and homeless folk to capacity, but said this condition had obtained since the District closed its transient lodges & month ago. An increase in appeals for shelter began “The degree of cold doesn't make much differénce,” official re- marked. “They can’t sleep outside in 40-degree temperature any more than they cza in 30." Some increase in appeals for aid since the beginning of the current the Volunteers of America men's shel- ter at 471 Pennsylvania avenue. There, The Travelers' Ad Society, offering help to families and homeless youths, Teporied o increase during the cold spel KING GEORGE ONE OF SIX BEST BRITISH MARKSMEN New Book Says His Private De- tective Records Number of Birds He Drops. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 2.—King George, now in his 70th year, is still one of the six best marksmen in Eng- land, says Wentworth Day in a book The suthor says persons who think the monarch’s ability is exaggerated FASCISTS ARRESTED Leader in French Movement Faces Charges—100 Others Released. PROFESSOR HANGS SELF Homeless men slept on mission | night to a low of 29 degrees at 6 o'clock | season, but the coldest since the 24- | The worst is yet to come, however, | reported their shelters were crowded | cold spell, however, was reported by | JACKIE MERKLE, reader of Jersey City, who has beenr amazing the public officials in particular with his mental feats. Recently to the Hall of Records in New York and gave Surrogate a few pointers about surregate law. Jackie is shown above surrogate. ~Wide World Photo. 500 Bison Herded Into Corral to Die By Order of State Killing of Buffalo De-| signed to Relieve Over- Stocked Condition. By the Associated Press. EDMONTON, Alberta, December .—Sharpshooters convergtd on Elk Island today for the first unrestricted killing of buffalo since 1928. There will be no chase across plains to bring the animals down. Five hun- dred prime bison of the 2,000 in Elk | Island Park will be herded into a big corral where they will be easy targets riflemen. Canadian packing company has contract for the bison flesh, but ides will be made into coats for Canadian Mounted Police. or A he ‘The buffalo slaughter was ordered | | to thin the island’s overstock herds. |INCREASED NAVAL PERSONNEL URGED| Need Is Stressed by Rear Admiral Leahy, Chief of Navigation, in Annual Report. | By the Associated Press. Increases in personnel strength to man the full treaty Navy with its Rear Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of the Bureau of Navigation. A shortage of both officers and en- listed men forced the Navy to cruise through the 1935 fiscal year with a substantially undermanned fleet, said. Emphasizing that it was “dange: to the national defense” for complements to fall below 85 per of full enlisted strength, Leahy's port said the average enlisted force of 81,510 maintained during the year made it possible to man combatant ships to only 81 per cent of their needs. Similarly, it was said, line officer personnel of 6,320 was more than 1,500 | below the number necessary to man treaty Navy now authorized ficers, it was said that the requisite personnel could not be obtained be- fore 1945 or later. Since the period covered by the re- port an enlisted force of 88,000 men nas been authorized by Congress. This, Leahy said, should allow all combatant fieet vessels to reach the desired 85 per cent of complement. RACER GETS 3 YEARS NEUTRALITY GOST Trade Might Lose Mothing to Billions — Three Plans Qutlined. By the Associated Press. The price America is willing t¢ pay possible to the country’s economy. Three Proposals Outlimed. Three broad proposals for a per- manent pelicy have been advanced. Some peace advocates would cut off all trade with all belligerents or all trade with aggressors. Members of the Senmate Munitions Committee would embarge all trade in munitions or essential war ma- terfals, but permit normal trade in other commodities. The administration seems to some observers to be headed toward a policy | of embargoing munitions proper, but | applying quotas on war materials to limit exports to normal. Suppose another World War should Lreak out, involving the same nations that were in the last one? How would the various pians affect American trade? » Under the first, the great bulk of all American foreign trade would be sacrificed. In the so-called normal year of 1926 this amounted to $4,808,- 000,000, or 10 per cent of the coun- try’s total production of movable goods. Last year iotal exports were about $2,200,000,000. Second Would Cut Semewhat. ‘The second plan, if confined to the commodities on which the administra- tion is now centering attention, would cut normal trade approximately $1.- | 000,000,000 in a year such as 1926. But if it included cotton, the total would be close to $2,000,000,000. | Under the third policy the cost | would be little. If applied before trade expanded to the war demand, it would | merely keep exports at their normal level. Reports from London that Great Britain had found encouragement for the success of a possible ofl embargo against Italy in hints that the United States might tacitly but effectively foin in such a move, were met in well-informed quarters here with the assertion there had been no indica- tion the United States was contemplat= ing any immediate neutrality steps beyond those already taken to dis- courage sales of war supplies to Italy |and Ethiopts. | | CREEK ENDS CHASE OF ESCAPING YOUTHS Aute Misses Bridge—Twe Syra- cuse Boys and a @irl Are Injured. By the Associated Press. NEW ALEXANDRIA, Pa., Decem- ber 2—A mad dash through three counties to escape pursuing police ended in the chill waters of Loyal- hamna Creek last nigt for two boys and a girl. All were hurt when their automobile missed a bridge. At the Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg their names were listed - | | ' | 4 Robert Wiegand, 16; A. L. Nutt, 16, and Grace Stoltziman, 15, all of Syra- cuse. Police tried to halt the car with pistol and rifle fire after they had received a report from s filling station at Oresson that & car had left after the occupants refused to pay for gasoline. | A witness said the machine was going at such = terrific speed that it shot straight out for almost 50 feet before falling into Loyalhanna Creek. D. C. Artist Gets WARWICK, England, December 2 (P)—A sentence of three years’ penal servitude today confronted Luis Fontes, automobile racing driver, con- victed of manslaughter. Reginald Mordike was killed after Fontes' car had crashed into his His Poodle, But In Strange Way Finds Dog He Retraced Steps to Buy, but b.!lued,' on Train. is the story of an artist and a Make U. S. Safer. OXNARD, Calif., December 2 (N. N.A.)~—Did it ever occur to you this might be a happler, or, anyhow, a bel safer land for the rest of us to live in | Sud 41 31 8 RE