Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow and probably Sunday; light winds, mostly west. Temperatures — Highest, 104, at 3:40 p.m. yesterday; low- The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. est, 75, at 5:30 a.m. toda; Closing New York Markets, Page 18 a9 . No. 33,67 post office, Wa: y. Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. @b WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1936—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION HEAT HERE AGAIN NEAR RECORD: FEDERAL WORKERS RELEASED:; DEATH TOLL IN U. S. REACHES 331 Peak of 104 Is Blocking of Cool Air in Pacific Due Today in City. | | | | | TORRID SPELL | WILL CONTINUE | BY THOMAS R. HENRY. HE baking, death-dealing heat which brought ruin over a vast area of the United States west of the Appalachians during the past two weeks is due to a single fundamental cause—the failure of a | blocked mass of ocean-cooled air rest- |ing over the Pacific somewhere be- tween Alaska and Hawaii to break up the flow of the vast river of hot air flowing into the interior of the conti- | nent from the Gulf and over North- | ern Mexico. | Precisely the same phenomenon, 1t |is explained at the Weather Bureau. | was responsible for the abnormal heat | waves and accompanying droughts ef 1930 and 1934. This mass of cool air is the so-called North Pacific high, a per- PRESIDENT ORDERS 5000 W.P. A. J0BS Soil Conservation Program Changed by A. A. A. in No Relief in Sight asMark of 106 Is | Threatened. Temperatures. BULLETIN. ‘When the temperature reached 102 degrees at 2 o'clock this after- noon, many branches of the Gov- ernment closed and sent their em- ployes home. Among them were practically the entire Trea: v Department, the Works Progress Administration. many bureaus of the Navy Department and all P. ‘W. A. workers employed outside on the new Interior Department Building. At 2:30 pm. the mercury had risen to 103 degrees, 1 higher than Huge “Chunks” of Mass Between Alaska l and Hawaii Fail to Break Off to Halt Hot Winds From the South. | manent feature of the world's weather | map, whose center during the Summer | normally is almost due west of Seattle | and whose eastern fringes extend al- | most to the North American coast. | Now a great air mass never is very | stable. Big chunks of this one, nor- | mally, are continually breaking off and | moving eastward over the coast States, Rocky Mountain and plateau region. | This should happen five or six times a month. If it does, the Western States and the grain belt enjoy normal, or | even subnormal Summer temperatures with relatively plentiful rain. This North Pacific high is the first | element in the drought situation. The second is just as significant. A fea- ture of the Summer weather map is | 7 (Sce COOL AIR, Page 2.) at the same time yesterday While the mercury exceeded 100 de- grees for the second straight day and spurted toward another near-record assault on all-time high temperature marks, District Building employes were ordered released from work this after- noon by the Commissioners, and Fed- eral Government department heads were considering turning their work- ers loose. With the temperature around 100 and another peak of 104 forecast, President Roosevelt let it be known at noon that he would permit per- sonnel chiefs of the various Govern- ment agencies to use their own dis- cretion about letting their employes | off early. | Census Bureau employes and those In several divisions of the Treasury anticipated dismissal about 2 o'clock, as was the case vesterday. Three heat prostrations were reported at the Census Bureau Building at 1724 F street yesterday. The Commissioners issued their or- der releasing all workers at 2 o'clock after working conditions had become almost unbearable. | No Relief in Sight. { As the Capital looked in vain for a | let-up, Forecaster Charles L. becheu; issued a prediction of “generally fair and continued warm today, tomorrow and probably Sunday.” ‘The maximum this afternoon, the | ‘Weather Bureau meteorologist said, | probably will be the same as that of yesterday, but comparative tempera- | tures with the previous 24 hours indi- |‘ cated his estimate might be conserva- | tive. i At 7 am. the reading was 82—eight degrees above yesterday's mark at the same hour—and by 9 am. it had Jjumped to 90, against 83 for the cor-| responding period yesterday. | At noon it was 99, as against 95| yesterday, and at 1 p.m. it was 101, 4/ more than yesterday. No cool breezes—only light, wester!y winds—were in sight to temper the rays of a relentless sun that so far has taken three lives in this area and | prostrated at least a dozen persons. | The third heat death occurred late | vesterday, when Boyd W. Burke, 53, | of 517 South Columbus strect, Alex- | andria, died at work in an undertaking establishment before a rescue squad | ambulance arrived on the scene. A | retired Post Office auditor and a Con- | gressional Library dishwasher had succumbed earlier in th: day. | Yesterday’s 104-degree mark, reached | at 3:40 pm, was 2 points shy of | equaling the record of 106 set on Au- gust 6, 1918, and matched on July 20 1930. Two Days Over 100 Not Record. ‘Two consecutive days of 100-degree temperatures or better would not be any sort of a record for the Capital, which has seen as many as four straight days of such readings. On July 19, 20, 21 and 22, in 1930, temperatures of 102, 106, 103 and 100 were registered. In August of the same year, there were five days of 100 temperatures or higher in a single week. With the temperature around 120 in hi sown office, Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown ordered traffic officers relieved at frequent intervals in a move to break up long shifts at scorching in- tersections. Another incident in which the heat may or may not have been a contrib~ uting factor was an explosion at the foot of Twenty-ninth street which oc- curred while Olive Thompson, 26, of Alexandria, Va., was mixing asphalt. He was burned about the eyes and forehead and cut on the face. Elmer Ridgeway, 422 Third street, a taxi driver, was treated at Emergency Hospital just before being prostrated. He told physicians he drove to the hospital himself when he thought he was about to be overcome. 1In addition to the list of known pros- trations, many others were treated by private physicians or taken home, while hundreds on the verge of col- lapsing sought shady spots for relief. Among those requiring hospital treatment were Brent Fulcher, 30, Ar- lington, Va.; David M. Via, 41, Alex- andria, Va.; Mrs. Margaret Sutton, 36, | of 3001 Garrison street; Helen Maleto, 29, of 1212 M street; Lila Hicks, 39, of 623 E street; Henry Spears, 36, of 1211 Morse street northeast; Levy (S¢e WEATHER, Page 3.), ) Drought Move. By the Assoclated Press. President Roosevelt announced to- day that 75,000 W. P. A. jobs had been authorized in the drought area. The A. A. A. at the same time. moved to increase supplies of feed crops in the North Central region by approving further modification of the soil conservation program. The President said 16,500 already were at work on various projects in the stricken regions and added that the Rural Resettlement Administra- tion was making loans to small cattle | owners to permit them to move their: cattle. Children's Bureau Acting. Listing other drought relief movi Mr. Roosevelt said the Children's Bu- reau was investigating the needs of children and mothers: the water sup- ply was being watched with plans for moving families in the event a short- | age occurred, and the Public Health Service was on the lookout for water contamination. The Weather Bureau. Mr. Roosevelt said, had reported today a few light showers in the worst parts of the drought area and heavy rain at Devils Lake, N. Dak. These rains did not greatly change the situation, however, since high temperatures still prevailed. Claude R. Wickard, acting A. A. A. director of the North Central area, explained the modifications in the soil conservation program were designed to preserve all available forage for live stock feed, to encourage farmers to increase their forage crops for Fall and Winter feeding, and to provide as large an increase of soil-conserving crops as possible for 1937. Drought Area Extended. Noting the one-year moratorium granted by the Resettlement Adminis- tration on loans in the drought area, the President emphasized this would apply only on a specific showing that the debtors lacked cash. Mr. Roosevelt added the Resettle- ment Administration was designating today nine additional counties in Minnesota as in the drought area, bringing the total to 277. He said the 268 already designated included 570,000 farms and a farming popula- tion of 2,718,000. As Government officials, farmers themselves and the great grain marts awaited the crop production forecast based on conditions as of July 1, the following developments stood out in the 1936 agricultural crisis: 1. The Resettlement Administra- tion announced a one-year mora- torium on rehabilitation loans made to farm families in afflicted counties. Montana Freight Rates Cut. 2. A freight rate cut was author- ized for the movement of cattle from Montana to grazing lands. 3. W. P. A. employment was ordered (See CROPS, Page 3.) Dallas Taxi Strike Broken. DALLAS, Tex., July 10 (#).— Taxi- cab owners apparently were victors today in their struggles against strik- ing drivers. The strikers dropped their demands for a closed shop last night and voted to return to their cabs. es Lose Homes 105 in Ontario Melts Hives’ Wax | | | Be By the Atsoclated Press. | | LoNDON. ontario. July 10— When the temperature went up to 105 yesterday. it dispossessed the ! bees in & local aplary from their | | homes The wax in the hives melted and closed the entrances. AT LABOR MEETING Metal Trades Leader Asks Action Against Insur- gent Unions. BACKGROUND— | After years of disagreement with | William Green and leadership of A.F.of L, John L. Lewis last Fall resigned vice presidency of federa- | tion and initiated formation of Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion, with his United Mine Workers as nucleus. Special federation committee in- vestigated program of C. I. O. and ordered its dissolution. Lewis ignored suggestion and is now ignor- ing request to appear before A. F. of L. Council to explain activities. In meantime, C. 1. O. has under- taken organization of steel indus- try, strongest retreat of “open” shop policy. BY JOHN C. HENRY. ithe insurgent member unions of the Committee for Industrial Organization was being placed on the harassed Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor today by John P. Frey, president of the metal trades department of the federation. Frey, who heads a division number- ing nearly 600,000 members within the federation, made a request on the first day of the council’s session that suspension action be taken against the C. I. O. unions. This morning he appeared again at the council meet- ing and was voted an opportunity to present his case in full late this after- noon. » Commenting on his determination, Frey said he believed a split in the labor movement would be “most un- fortunate.” However, he pointed out that the present instance is one of “jnsurrection, flagrant and abusive,” and as such, should be met by decisive punitive action. Insurgents “Indifferent.” Meanwhile, a spckesman for the C. 1. O. said unions of that organiza- tion are completely indifferent as to the decision of the council. He denied the likelihood that they would make any appeal to the courts or would pre- test in any way if the council votes to suspend them. In the absence of representatives of the recalcitrant unions, the council is attending to routine matters on its docket, At the same time, according to William Green, president of the Federation, it is still “hopeful” that “a way out” will be found in the present impasse between the two powerful factions of the labor move- ment. Mr. Green admitted yesterday, how- ever, that he could not think What “way out” is possible other than a (See STEEL, Page 5.) 137,000,000 Gallons of Water Used in a Day by District Anybody who used 254* gallons of water yesterday got only his just share! For the District consumed 137,000,- 000 gallons of water, to set a new all- time record for a 24-hour period. The mark exceeded by 13,000,000 gallons the old record established Au- gust 2, 1935. The average daily consumption here during July is approximately 107, 000,000 gallons. No restrictions are placed on con- sumers—they can drink as much as they please, bathe as often as they desire and water the lawn to their heart’s content. J. E. Curtis, superintendent of the District water supply system, who has and McMillan Filtration Plant, pointed out that as much as 150,000,000 gal- lons of water could be supplied daily over a reasonable period—perhaps sev- eral weeks. And the output could be stepped up considerably for several days in & row without placing too much of strain on the pumping and filtering machinery. Yesterday’s record, Curtis said, might be short-lived, as it might be broken today if the temperature sur- passes the 104 registered in midafter- noon. The per capita consumption is based on Curtis’ figures that some land—are served by the District's charge of the Dalecarlia Reservoir | water systemy SUSPENSIONURGED Increased pressure for suspension of | 'New Highs Set, Is Responsible for Record Heat With Relief Unsighted. 3 STATES MAY GET SHOWERS |Corn Prices Sent 3| Cents Higher at Chicago. By the Associated Press | Temperatures traveled toward new | high marks today as terrific heat broiled most of the Nation and no re- | lief was in sight. By early aftcrnoon the death list | reached 331, and crop losses, which no |one has been able to estimate accu- rately, continued to mount to tremen- | dous sums. “Some possibility” of light. scattered showers by Sunday was seen for the | Dakotas and parts of Minnesota and | Nebraska, but weather observers szid | | i the possibility materialized it would | | serve only to lower temperatures in' those States. Little Precipitation Reported. The Weather Bureau reported vir- | tually no precipitation in the drought | belt or heat-stricken section for the 24 hours ending at 7 am. (Eastern standard time) today. H | North Indiana received a trace, the | bureau said. and Wisconsin had some |rainfall today. The weather map' showed precipitation along much of | the Pacific Coast and in parts of New Mexico, Utah, Arizona. Colorado, | Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, New England, Manitoba, Saskatchewan | and Ontario. Reports from across more than halt |the Nation indicated temperatures would soar beyond yesterday’s blister- ing marks, which hung up all-time | maximum records in many places. | The reports sent corn prices 3 cents | !higher at the opening in Chicago. ! Wheat rose fractionally. | Fears for Game Fish Held | From Springfield, I, came fears that further delay of rain might pe disastrous to game fish, Almost every reporting point showed early temperature readings higher | | than those of yesterday. But the torrid sun was not the | only weather scourge. Forest fires seared thousands of acres of rich | timberland, filling the air with smoke and ashes, while some States suffered from lightning and hail storms. The Federal Government announc- | ed modification of its soil conserva- | tion program in the North Central region to preserve all available for- age for livestock feed. encourage farmers to increase their forage crops for Fall and Winter feeding. and pro- vide as much acreage as possible for soil conserving crops next year. New York farmers were ready to offer pasture lands sufficient to feed 40,000 to 50,000 head of cattle from | the drought belt. Showers Fall in South. Showers fell in the South during | the night, but they were insufficient |to offset the long drought. Temper- | atures there, however, were less | severe than in the East and Middle | _Rain fell on President Roosevelt's | Pine Mountain Valley farm, parched | | by three month's drought, but it | was of little consequence. i Canada also felt the heat and dry weather, with temperatures above 100 in Ontario, while Western Canada | registered in the 90's. | In the Nation’s major grain trading | markets corn reached the 4 cents limit | allowed late in the morning. July at | 85 cents a bushel was a new high in Chicago for the year. ‘Wheat, oats and rye prices also ad- vanced more than 2 cents a' bushel | upon receipt of additional crop dam- | age reports. A blanket of intense temperatures— shattering records at many points and ranging up to yesterday’s peak of 115 at Aberdeen, S. Dak.,—stretched south from the western provinces of Canada to Northern Kansas and east to Vir- ginia and the New England line. Readings of 104 at Toronto, On- tario, and Ithaca, N. Y.; 1023 at New York City, and 102 at Scranton, Pa, established new all-time highs yesterday. Washington's 104 was the highest since July 20, 1930. Scores Are Prostrated. Scores of prostrations were reported in urban centers as thousands of harried residents slept in parks, on | fire escapes and at beaches. Despite forecasts of possible showers Sunday meteorologists warned they could foresee no break in the hot wave or no general rain to halt the drought that has already resulted in crop losses estimated at more than $300,- 000,000, affected between 3,000,000 and 5,000,000 farm families, and made 204,- 000 of them dependent upon the Gov- ernment for a livelihood. Through Saturday, at least, they said, generally fair weather and ab- normal warmth would prevail. ‘The menace of flames spread. The worst fire in many years raged through the Black Hills forest near Sundrance, ‘Wyo. Live stock, game and thousands (See DROUGHT, Page 4.) i Norman Sails for New York. SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 10 (#).—Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, left today for New York aboard the steamship Bre- men. Gov. Norman, always mysterious about his travels, declared “I am going to Maine and will be away only a few weeks, but I cannot tell the nature of my visit.” - ¢ Foening Star Lt L Yesterday’s Circulation, 131,269 (Some returns not vet recetved.) (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. THAT'S A BIG PROMISE To FULFILL. TS DIFFICULT TO PUT EVEN V4 / CHICKEN | EVERY POT! 777 | | \ { | | | Police Hold Back Angry Crowd After Two Parched Boys Are Saved. 3 Dog Collar Holds One. EY the Assoctated Press PHILADELPHIA, July 10.--Police restrained a crowd of angry women today while a mother faced accusa- tions that she left her two baby sons on the top floor of a small frame house, one of them strapped o a crib. They were found parched with thirst in stifing heat Mrs. Cameron Shanks. a blond woman of 29. merely when Police Magistrate Hollane her why she had mistreated her chil- dren Woman spectators shouted threats and the ecry, “Kil was heard. Mrs. Shanks and William Davis. 39, who was arrested in the street with her early today, were held in $800 bail each for court on charges of cruelty to children. Davis, well dressed and wearing a wrist watch | small smiled asked and two rings, maintained he knew | nothing of the children’s plight | Patrolman Herbert Walker testi- fied neighbors’ complaints brought him to the house vesterday. He broke open & door after hearing the chil- dren’s screams John. a boy of 4. cried. “Water, give me a drink,” as soon as the policeman _entered the room. Walker related. The child was in a crib with a dog collar around his neck. A rope attached to the collar was tied at the other end to a bolt in the floor, the officer said. Charles, 2. was in the crib, too. He was not bound, but was too small to climb out “Both of the babies drank two cup- fuls as quickly as they could gulp it down,” Walker said | Magistrate Holland remarked: “This is the most pathetic case I have ever teen in all my experience as a mag- istrate.” | RODSEVELT STARTS I SLAVERS PAY VAGATON TONEHT UNES N 4STATES .‘To Spend Most of 3-Week Firing Squad Executes Green‘ Trip Fishing—Will Visit Canadian Official. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt was busy today clearing his desk so as to leave tonight | on a three-week vacation, the greater part of which will be spent cruising off the coast of Maine and in Canadian waters in a 50-foot schooner yacht. The President said he was looking | forward to an enjoyable rest and an- ticipating the visit he has planned | with Lord Tweedsmuir, governor gen- | | eral of Canada, at the latter's Summer home at Quebec, on July 31 i Mr. Roosevelt said he has no idea at this time just when he will return to Washington. He said he might come back directly from his Canadian | visit. which would put him here about : August 3, or he might go directly from | Canada to his old home 3t Hyde Park, | N. Y, to remain a week or so. Undecided on Trip West. ‘The President has not yet decided just when he will begin his journey to Minneapolis and the Dakotas to see for himself the extent of drought damage and suffering in that area. He said today he hopes to be able to g0 about the middle of August. After that trip he expects to return to Washington for a few days and then go back to his Hyde Park home, where he will set up a Summer White House to carry on Government busi- ness until time to start on a cam- paign trip. He indicated his personal campaign activities will not begin before the latter part of September or the first part of October. There have been reports from the coast that the Presi- dent has promised to appear person- ally in that section before election day to make a speech or two, but he said nothing definite has been ar- ranged. The President will act as skipper and helmsman of thke vacation schoon- er, which is known as the Sewanna. Three of his four sons, James, Frank- lin, jr.,, and John, will be members of the crew. The only other members will be Elden Colbeth, Maine ship captain, and Joseph Emmerz, a sea- soned fishing boat sailor. The Presi- dent will go aboard the Sewanna off the coast of Maine and will cruise to his mother’s Summer home, at Campobello Island, in New Brunswick. A day or so later he will go deep-sea fishing in the waters off Nova Scotia. Destroyer to Follow. A Navy destroyer and the presiden- tial yacht Potomac will trail the President on the cruise and will serve as supply ships. ‘The President will arrive at Hyde Park on a special train early tomorrow. Late tomorrow afternoon the President and Mrs. Roosevelt and other members of the family will attend the wedding of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, Minister to Denmark, to Capt. Boerge Rohde of Denmark at the St. James' Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, where President Roosevelt has been a warden for many years. lier in the day the President will in Utah Triple Mur- | der Case. 5 ¥ the Associated Press. The law in four States took the lives of six murderers last night and today by three different methods—the firing squad, the lethal gas chamber and the electric chair. After a six-vear fight to escape the death penalty for slaying his wife, her mother and foster father, 28-rear- old Delbert Green was trussed to a chair at Salt Lake City and shot by a squad of rifiemen. At F Ariz, 26 - year - old Frank Rascon died in the gas cham- ber firmly contending his father, not he, killed a fellow ranch work The electric chair at Hunsville, Tex., claimed a white man and two | Negroe brothers. Grady Warren, | white, maintained he was innccent of a hold-up slaying. Mack and Oscar | Brown blamed each other, officials said, for the murder for which they were condemned. | John Collins, 27. who was married | after his conviction, was elertrocuted at Sing Sing Prison, Ossuung, N. Y., for a tavern hold-up slaying. SQUAD EXECUTES GREEN. Utah Slayer of Three Dies as Cell Mates Yell. By the Assocated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, July 10.—Del- bert Green, 28-year-old slayer of three, was shot to death at dawn today by a (See SLAYERS, Page 3.) jBabics Stifle, Tied Inside Crib; | Mother Menaced by Women RUTH BRYAN OWEN WEDS TOMORROW Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt to Attend Ceremony at Hyde Park. £ the Astociated Press. ‘The marriage of Minister Ruth Bryan Owen to Kammerjunker Kapt- jan Boerge Rohde of the Danish King's Life Guards will take place at 5 p.m. tomorrow at the Hyde Park Episcopal Church attended by Presi- dent Roosevelt. Both the President and Mrs. Roose- velt will attend the ceremony and will entertain for Mrs. Owen at 8 wedding supper which will follow immediately. Miss Fannie Hurst. the novelist, will attend Mrs. Owen, and Robert Lehman, the Minister's son-in-law, will be best man. INTENDS TO KEEP POST. | stitutes a wos Mrs. Owen “Will Definitely” Return to Danish Court. + NEW YORK, July 10 () —Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, United States Min- ister to Denmark, said today that she “will definitely” resume her post after her marriage to Capt. Boerge Rohde of the Danish court. | Mrs. Owen said she would announce the time and place of the wedding later today. “1 shall resume my post—definitely —on my return to Denmark,” said Mrs. Owen. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. who saw Mrs. Owen yesterday, said the wedding would not be today. “The time of the ceremony de- pends on when ceriain people of im- portance whom we want to be ‘present can be free,” Mrs. Owen ex- plained. The 42-year-old, tall, athletic cap- tain is a member of the bodyguard of King Christian X of Denmark. Mrs. Owen said she met him short- | ly after she presented her credentials at Copenhagen in 1933, when she went there upon appointment of President Roosevelt, the first woman envoy ever to represent this Nation abroad. The captain, who crossed on the liner, Drottningholm, was met at quarantine by Mrs. Owen and a party of her friends aboard a cabin cruiser owned by Lehman. Mrs. Owen, who is 50 years old, is daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan. She came here several days ago on leave of absence and an- nounced she would aid President | Roosevelt in his campaign for re-| election. ! ETHIOPIANS TAKE TOWN' Addis Railroad Cut Between Ababa and Coast. PARIS, July 10 (#).—Ethiopians have taken complete possession of the | town of Mojjo, approximately 30 miles southeast of Addis Ababa, the news- | paper L'Oeuvre reported today. | By their occupation the Ethiopians have cut the railroad connection be- tween the capital and Djibouti, | French Somaliland, the paper de- | clared. | Mayor to Go Empty-Handed To Meeting With Extortionist By the Associated Press. PROPHETSTOWN, Ill. July 10.— Mayor George S. Brydia planned today for an empty-handed rendezvous in the Rockford, Il1, public library Satur- day night with an extortionist who threatened to blow up downtown Prophetstown with dynamite unless he were paid $1,000. The mayor earlier had said that he would collect the money from business men, not that he was afraid personally, but because “we haven't had any rain in 20 days and we're afraid the whole town would be burned up if somebody started playing with matches.” ‘Today, however, he declared he was making no attempt to gather togethe: the money, but that he would meet the writer of the extortion letter, re- ceived Wednesday, at the designated place. “Due to the publicity, I do not expect the extortionist to keep the appoint- ment, but I will be there anyhow,” ne said. This town of 1,400 population, mean- while, remained in a state of excite- ment, the dynamiting threat being the chief topic of conversation. Mayo* Brydia ordered the two-man police force doubled, The letter, postmarked Wyoming, | 111, a nearby town, was written in pen- | cil on ruled tablet paper. In the upper | left-hand corner in printed lower case letters running together were the let-| ters A.J. H. W. V. It bore a signature | and a Walnut, Iowa, return address. | The letter read: “We have selected you to obtain | from each manager of a store twenty | dollars to be delivered to us, including | yours, in the deal. We believe that there are fifty stores that will—mean you get together one thousand dollars. ‘We know all the store managers and intend to get the rest of them in a short time if the (Ristun?) simply re- fuses to pay his tribute to us, the Ca- morra. *“If you want to live in peace and not be bothered the rest of your life you had better do as instructed. The same goes for the store men, we mean busi- | ness—or else. ! “There is more than one hundred | of us and you cannot get more than | one or two; then the rest will give their [ lives to get yours. If you are willing to obey our demands—place the fol- lowing ad in the personal ad (Sterling) Gazette dated Jxl " { President Rocsevelt | order which prescribed uniform regu- | lations for granting sick and annual “where the ap EXECUTIVE ORDER PUTS LEAVE LAW ONUNIFORM BASIS Permits 30-Day Absence for Sickness to Be Granted Thrice Yearly. TEMPORARY EMPLOYES TO GET NO ADVANCES Regulations Held Liberal—Rul- ing Clarifies Two Points. BY J. A. FOX. A liberal interpretation of the new leave law teday was laid down by in an executive leave throughout stablishment the Government Operating for the first time under legislation which permits sick leave to be advanced in 30 allotments in emergency cases. the President held this 30-day allowance could be given three times a but no more. rate of er a month, and on for leave is in amount accumulated, nces do not justify the excess over the be chargeable advancement accrue during a d when the but when n five days n annual leave k may be charged leave-wit latt when an employ with pay. the days & e The President decided also that in case of a voluntary separation or re= moval for cause employe who has received an advance on sick leave, in excess of the amount accrued, must make restitution. This, however, does * in case of death. Temporary Employes. es get the regular per month sick dvances and appoint- ments for six months or under are circumseribed by this rule Their annual leave is. under the law, at the rate of 2lp days a month, Pere manent employes get 21, The minimum charge for sick leave is one-half day except on Saturdays, or any other day when four hours con- y. In these cases, it is chargeable in ples of one hour. ‘Where employes are k for three days or less, their word will be taken for the cause of absence. 'ather than requiring a ph ians certificate, and such a situation will be permitted fcur times a year. Other Sick Leave Provisions. The rules also sick leave in mate some member of t with a contageous disease quires the attendance of i or that his presence at work would jeopardize the safetv of other workers. Employes outside of continental United States continue to enjoy 'eave differential over those employed ir: this country. The President’s order cl: d up two points coveri: the period from January 1 to March 14, when no leave laws were in effect. (The new law became retroactive on the later date.) He held that if sick leave in excess of one and one-quarter days a month was taken in that period, it is charge- able against sick leave subsequently accruing. Where an employe, he said, who was not entitled to sick leave under prior law and now is entitled to it took leave without pay or annual leave because he was ill, he may now substitute sick leave as it accumulates. In the annual leave regulations the President also settled the point tha- bobs up when employes are separated from the service He said that when this separation is without prejudice, the employe is entitled to all leave due him up until the date he leaves service. The minimum charge against annual leave is 15 minutes, In some cases the President’s rules ve effect to practices long in vogue but not carried er 2l m certain agencics, out elsewhere. g ATTEMPTED SUICIDE DELAYS EXECUTION North Carolina Prisoner Leaps From Cells Tier and Is Later Put to Death. RALEIGH. N. C, July 10— Henry Grier, 43-year-old Winstone Salem Negro, was electrocuted this afternoon a few hours after he had tried to escape the death chair in a spectacular 20-foot plunge from a third tier of cells to a concrete floor of the penitentiary. Grier was carried into the death chamber by five men at 12:36 o'clock. His lips were taped. His arms were in splints. Grier leaped from the second tier of cells on death row. He suffered frac- tures of both wrists, lacerated lips and other injuries. 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