Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1936, Page 2

A2 #%% LABOR UNITS PUSH FIGHT FOR POWER Lewis Faction Opens Drive to Enroll 100,000 Coal Processing Workers. A battle between the split ranks of .organized labor to undermine each other broke out in earnest yesterday. The Lewis Committee for Industrial Organization, attacking the executive council of the American Federation of Labor for being “crazy with spite,” welcomed the support of local units of unions generally. It also under- took to absorb an A. F. of L. Federal Union in a campaign to enroll 100,000 coal processing workers. In turn, executive council members gponsored a drive in the Interna- tional Typographical Union to re- pudiate Charles P. Howard, its presi- dent, for personally joining the C. I. O. and becoming its secretary. The first crucial test in the labor war is thus set for the I. T. U. convention at Colorado Springs, Colo., Septem- ber 12. This union is one of two which escaped the A. F. of L. suspension order, but was told to explain its status. Howard's repudiation would be a signal triumph for the execu- tive council. Speakers Announced. Meantime, on the complicated fronts of hectic labor action the C. I. ©O. chiefs made ready to advertise their political leadership of labor. John L. Lewis, C. I. O. chairman, and Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and a C. I O. leader, were announced as the principal speakers tomorrow at a conference of labor's Non-Partisan League for President Roosevelt. Maj. George L. Berry, president of the league, predicted the delegates pres- ent from all the States would repre- sent 3,000,000 labor votes. Simultaneously, but from a separate office and in his governmental capac- ity as co-ordinator for industrial co- operation, Maj. Berry extended indi- rectly a helping hand to Lewis’ C. L O. drive to organize the workers of the steel industry. The major issued in behalf of his Council for Industrial Progress a warning that the lag in iron and steel industry wages raised the “serious menace” of a “return to pre-depression conditions” in the in- Qustry. Productive capacity in iron and steel from 1919 to 1929 increased three and a half times faster than wages, the report declared. Carrying its figures only as far as 1933. the report said that the average yearly wage was $903. It suggested that an- other depression would be the result of a production outstripping a “prac- tically unchanged” wage level Inroads Encouraged. The Lewis C. I. O. headquarters lent encouragement yesterday to in- roads in the old-line A. F. of L. or- ganization by hailing efforts within city central labor organizations to defy the executive council. The Lewis associates hope to see these strong local bodies serve notice on the execu- tive council that units of C. I. O. unions will not be ostracized locally because the latter are being suspend- ed. The suspension goes into effect | September 5 unless the C. I. O. dis- bands, which is out of the question. *The New Haven Central Labor Union was one such city organization dt local unions which sent word it jould “fight against exclusion of any . 1. O. unions from the central labor Wodies.” * The South Bend (Ind.) Central Trades and Labor Union was another ot notify the C. I. O. it was asking the A. F. of L. councll to drop its charges. Other support voiced by va- rious union locals were published in | & C. I. O. paper. y To Organize Coal Workers. , The United Mine Workers under YTewis will do the organizing of the coal processing workers and thereby carry the labor war to the A. F. of L. ip another quarter. The drive is slated to begin “within a month.” James Nelson, council president, says the drive probably will start with absorp- tion of 4,000 members now in Fed- efal unions banded together as the National Council of Gas and Coke orkers. f The first public C. I. O. attack on the executive council since the sus- fension ultimatum was given out characterized the trial of the C. I. O. uhions as “farcical” The council members were accused of being “crazy with spite” and prediction was made would “engulf false leaders.” ~“Now is the time for every labor nian worthy of the name to rally be- hind this great campaign for a union- . “Meeting behind closed doors in ‘Washington, a little group of willful men, speaking in the name of labor, have perpetrated a foul conspiracy egainst labor.” . Howard May Be Rebuked. . As foundation for the present con- eentration of executive council action egainst the C. I. O, information in the possession of council members is that a number of the largest locals in the Typographical Union, including the “Big Six” of New York, are ready te rebuke Howard for taking steps which pulls his union over toward the C: I. O. There will undoubtedly be a.big fight in the I. T. U. convention, byt Howard’s aids believe they have the situation in hand. Jf no action should be taken to be- friend the C. I. O. it would be a major victory for the executive council and nfight emphatically turn the course of the labor war. 2The Typographical Union is one of two internationals which was in- structed by the executive council to ex- plin its status relative to the C. 1. O. ‘The other was the United Hatters, Cip and Millinery Workers, which has ity cap and millinery department dlene connected with the Lewis move- nfént. However, this department forms the bulk of the membership and the executive council does not have strong hygpes of recapturing the union. «At the headquarters of the C. I. O. y@terday, Howard's leadership was represented in a discussion of plans to, repulse the executive council in cgnnection with “the Typographical Union. Confidence was expressed in the success of a resolution at the Celorado convention to give support aid financial aid to the organizing drjves of the C. I. O. This would he tantamount to affiliation with the Lé#wis movement without actually say- 80. Not even the New York local would be solidly against Howard. it stated. The executive council eat would help him, according to Es opinion. §Cppyright, 1936, by New York Herald Tribune.) Lo Dogs by the Gross. ~HARLINGEN, Tex. (#).—As & boy . B. Lewis was heartbroken when favorite dog died. Now he has 400 s—but will never . lose them. They're made of china. f Wayside ‘ . Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. REJECTED. RS. MILDRED HEREFORD DUGAN, who gets as few re- jection slips as any one in the writing business, got one the other day, which she thinks fs the tops in originality. Some time ago there was an item about her in the Wayside column. It told, without mentioning any names, of an editor who rejected a manu- script of hers on the ground that the viewpoint expressed was insufficiently mature; a not inexcusable misjudg- ment in view of the fact that Mrs, Dugan had not signed her own name, but used a masculine nom-de-plume. The Wayside item went on then to tell how she laughed and her friends laughed over the editor's letter. It eventuates, however, that the editor laughed last. The latest man- usecript submitted by Mrs. Dugan to the same editor came back with that Wayside item attached; the obvious deduction being that her viewpoint still strikes the magazine as being immature. * X K * ORDER. The automobile industry has ar= rived at that point it always has dreamed of in so far as one of Washington’s leading newspaper executives is concerned. The point, of course, is the .ne of having a customer call up and order a car just as @ housewife orders a bunch of carrots or some similar item. Without a demonstration, with= out exact knowledge of what the | model he wanted looked like— without anything, indeed, but a no- tion that he wanted a new car— the executive called a local dealer the other day. “I want a sport sedan model, equipped with radio, delivered to my office at,4:30 today,” he said. He got it—and he is a lot more | happy over the purchase made that | way than would be a housewife who bought a bunch of carrots the same way. * Kk ok % TRUCKIN. ‘Tms dance craze ‘“truckin” re- i ceived a few added new steps ; recently, and, of all places, in one of {our own local precincts. The orig- | inator, a porter at the station, added | these steps to the national dance on an inspiration which took the form of a small pack of firecrackers placed ! in the hip pocket of his overalls. The | firecrackers were touched off by a | playful officer. B They started popping and the por- | ter, tossing his mop across the room, | started truckin around the station, | holding the back pocket of his over- loose-fitting garment would allow, heading for the back of the precinct, stepping high, wide and handsome. “What truckin,” was his only com- ment when all was quiet again. PASTIME. Witnessed at Chevy Chase Circle early one morning recently—two young bakery truck drivers whiling | away a few moments by tossing to | each other a jew buns from their wares. Perhaps they were stale, anyway. ‘1 * x ¥ x MIS-NOMER. Tms story was told, and certified as | true, at the annual meeting of | the Maryland Pharmaceutical Asso- clation. | A new druggist in one of the less |elite sections who, like all modern | druggists, operates a soda foumtain !u a side line, put up a “pie a la mode” sign this Spring. To his surprise nothing happened. Nobody ordered the popular dish. After a few days he decided to change the sign. The new one said: “Ice cream on pie.” He had hardly put the sign up before he began re- celving orders. It quickly became the store’s sales leader. “And I thought ‘pie a la mode’ was as well known as just plain pie,” as- serted the druggist. x ok k% READERS. T8 their own form of charity or remembrance,; and it comes always at the right time, does a world of good and brings forth a world of apprecia- tion. We can't use their names, but they are two sisters and they read The Star every day. Sad cases, accidents, bad luck stories (the true ones), and now the one of the missing taxicab driver have come to their attention. Each time they can make a timely contribution, out comes the check- baok. ‘Twice checks for $5 birthday pres- ents for the 9-year-old son of the taxi- cab driver have been delivered for them through The Star. A personal visit to one of the sisters revealed this was the manoer in which they helped others. And the greatest kick they get out of it is to read or hear how their gifts really helped, either actual financial relief or in the joy hey produce. DIONNES DRAW THRONG Visitors From U. 8. Lead Proces- sion of 141,342 During July. CALLANDER, Ontario, August 8 (®).—Visitors from the United States led a long procession of tourists to the nursery of the Dionne quintuplets last month. Of 30,216 automobiles and 67 busses which brought 141,342 sightseers to the Dafoe Hospital, it was estimated today, 70 per cent came.from tge, United States. ‘ alls as far away from himself as the | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 9,- 193—PART ONE. an Alaskan mountain yesterday crash of a year ago. A few charred bones and a burned airplane discovered on revealed the fate of this former Washington woman, Mrs. John Lonz, nee Betty Glaum, and her husband, a Fairbanks merchant. Two others were lost in the —A. P. Photo. Ickes’ Reply to Ka"sas GOUC”lOr BY JOHN M. GLEISSNER. Secretary Ickes, in his radio reply last week to the acceptance speech of Gov. Landon, front the issue of oil, which in one | form or another has been agitating | American politics for more than half | & century. Back in the 80s, when the original Standard Oil Co. of John D. Rocke- | feller had acquired control of some- and for many years thereafter, the makers and courts. Rockefeller was accused of stifling competition by un- fair methods, particularly by obtain- | tation, and of manipulating prices to ‘;h:s own advantage. The clamor | era finally culminated in the famous Sherman anti-trust law. Some 40 companies which had been united un- der the Standard Oil Co. of New Jer- sey, first of the giant holding com- panies, were ordered to split up and resume competition. | In recent years attention largely has centered on the efforts to stabilize oil production and prices and to con- serve supplies in the ground in the face of constant exploration and dis- covery, and attempts by the inde- pendent producers to curtail or shut out imports. . Landon Has Sought Order. | ent oil producer and later as chief | executive of the fourth oil State, has | been in the van of the long struggle to bring order in the industry, and to | end ruinous prices by making pro- duction and importations canform to demand. Landon was chairman of the Governors' Oil Conference in 1983, and it was in this connection that he was criticized by Secretary Ickes Ickes charged that Landon, after he | became a candidate, abandoned his previous position in favor of Federal regulation to advocate control through | interstate compacts. Ickes did not, as former Senator Brookhart of Iowa did directly, and Senator Borah of Idaho by inference, accuse Landon of connection with the Standard Oil Co. Brookhart last Spring charged that Landon was a Standard Oil candidate, but the ac- cusation attracted little attention, since Brookhart did not offer proof. Senator Borah, himself a candidate for the presidency, caused a mild political flurry when, on March 15, 1935, he charged that the Standard Oil Co, was attempting to influence the selection of delegates in Oklahoma to the Republican National Conven- tion. Borah did not stipulate which Standard company he had in mind. His information, he said, came from “leading Republicans of Oklahoma.” Called for Investigation. “It is claimed that the delegation is being selected regardless of public sentiment and through methods that warrant investigation,” said Borah. “It would seem that there is no doubt as to the facts.” Borah called on the Senate Cam- paign Fund Committee to investigate. Here again no evidence was offered, and if the Senate committee made the investigation Borah demanded, nothing has ever been heard about it. Borah had not mentioned Landon by name and when a Wichita editor interpreted the remarks as aimed at the candidate, Borah retorted that the editor owed Landon an apology. Other friends of Landon placed the same construction on Borah's statement, however, and came to his defense. Among these was Wirt Franklin of Ardmore, Okla., president of the In- dependent Petroleum Association of America, and long the leader of the independents in their fight for legis- lation to restrict oil imports. Franklin was a successful candidate for dele- gate to the convention. “Gov. Landon was one of the leaders in the victorious fight of the inde- pendents against monopoly,” said Franklin the day after Borah had issued his statement. “He has been a director of the Independent Petroleum Association since soon after its organi- zation. The independent operator to- day enjoys the right to compete on equal terms with the big corporations. Gov. Landon played a big part in winning that right. “When our group was in the throes of its bitter fight in Washington, Alf Landon came to Washington at his own expense and stayed there for six weeks fighting with me.” Pipe Line Issue Fought. ‘When Brookhart issued his blast, it was pointed out by Landon’s friends that as Republican State chairman and manager of Gov. Reed’s campaign in 1930, Landon had fought the Stand- ard on the pipe linf}issue. brought to the fore-| | thing like 90 per cent of the industry, | {cry of monopoly aroused public, law- | ing discriminating rates of transpor- | through the trust-busting, muckraking | dissolution decree of 1911, under the | Landon Speech Brings Oil Issue to Forefront| Has Been Leader in Fight to Stabilize Industry, Long in Chaotic Condition. In 1931, Landon. as an oil operator and chairman of the Kansas delega- tion to the Govarnors’ oil relief con- ference, signed a petition to Con- gress urging imposition of “an adequate tariff” on oil imports, or as an alterna- | tive, passage of a law to limit im- | portations to 20 per cent of the 1928 total (16,000,000 barrels) and to ex- clude refined products entirely. State efforts to control production, the peti- tion stated, had been frustrated by a flood of foreign oil. Landon subsequently supported leg- islation in both chambers which | dorsed by the independents, by Secre- | would have entirely excluded importa- | tions, or limited them as the Gov- ernors’ relief ‘conference asked. He submitted statements at committee hearings in which he pointed out the plight of the owners of small or “stripper” well owners. proposals by the independents to re- strict importations by imposing a duty of §1 a barrel on crude oil in the | Fordney-McCumber tariff of 1921, and the Hawley-Smoot tariffl of 1930. | Likewise the Capper-Marland bills, which would have given the Secretary of the Interior broad discretionary power over the oil industry, were re- Jected by the House Ways and Means Committee in June, 1933, Conditions Were Choice. Meantime, conditions in the oil in- dustry were chaotic. Production was running wild, particularly in new flush Texas field had gone as low as 10 | cents a barrel. The independents, | undiscouraged by earlier failures. | turned to the revenue act of 1932 and | demanded an excise tax on all oil imported. | The House voted a tax of 1 cent a gallon or 42 cents a barrel, and the | Senate cut this in half. This 21 | cents a barrel tax is now in force. The | proposal was one of the most bitterly | contested in the bill. Arrayed agains® | it were Eastern interests who wanted | low-priced ofl, nsers of asphalt, im- | porters, seaboard refiners and others A Tariff Commission investigation in 1931 had shown that the average cost of transporting a barrel of crude oil from the mid-continental fields to pwhereas it could be brought by tanker from Venezuela for from 25 to 28 cents. Theoretically, at least, the impost of one-half cent a gallon |on crude, and commensurate taxes |on its derivatives, wiped out the advantage of about 20 cents a barrel enjoyed by the importers and put | them on an equal footing with the domestic producers. Ickes Made Administrator. When the national industrial recov- ery act was enacted, President Roose- velt signed a code of fair competition for the oil industry, and named Sec- retary of the Interior Ickes as admin- istrator. The code became effective on September 19, 1933, and sought to limit the supply of oil to the de- mand. “The allowed production of the United States, plus imports and with- drawals from storage, shall, as nearly as may be, equal the current domestic consumption plus the demand for ex- port,” said the code. “The amount of crude petroleum necessary to meet such requirements shall be equitably allocated between current production, withdrawals from storage, and im- ports, and there shall be equitably allotted a maximum production to the various producing areas, proper- ties, and wells located thereon, all as determined or approved by the Pres- ident.” The code authority soon encounter- ed difficulty from “hot oil,” that is, New Yerk was from 45 to 47 cents, | This legislation failed, as had similar | Gov. Landon, first as an independ- | fields, and the price of oil in the East| | visions. | Washington Death in Air Crash Revealed EDWAR[] BRUSSES\ TROUBLED EUROPE Uses Plane and Train-on Trip to Mediterranean to Board Yacht. Ey 10 Associated Press. CALAIS, France, August 8—Ed- ward VII of Great Britain today took his first vacation as King in an air, land and sea trip across Europe to the troubled Mediterranean, focal point of European unrest. He flew the English Channel be- hind a pilot newly designated as “Captain of the King's Flight,” and rode by train in a special car from Calais toward Yugoslavia. Once he enters that country his route lies to some point. on the Adriatic coast, where he will board his yacht. The King traveled incognito as the Duke of Lancaster. So strict was the insistence on cloaking his identity as King that a British flag, flown at the Saint Inglevert Airport, near here, to herald his arrival, was ordered down just before his airplane’s wheels touched. | Edward is the first British Klng‘ to fly abroad. He may have estab- lished another precedent when he ordered a simple divan-bed substi- tuted in his cabin on the yacht Nahlin for a big, imposing walnut bedstead. which somebody had in- stalled there for his comfort. The ! big bed was too formal, he explained. The King's vacation was not with- out its worries, for his ministers, his subjects and the heads of nations whose territories he will touch or approach. A little anxiety arose because the Mediterranean easily could become | the center of naval activity in the event European unrest broke its bonds and war ensued. Accompanying the royal party at sea will be two British destroyers. Edward canceled a projected visit to the picturesque villa of Maxine | Elliott, at Golfe Juan, on the French | Riviera, because of the Spanish sit- | uation, oil produced and marketed in vio- | lation of code allowances. Litiga- | tion resulted, and the Federal courts in Texas refused to uphold the au- thority of the Secretary of the In- terior in the Panama and Amazon cases. They were sustained in this | by the United States Supreme Court, ! and the oil cod> was finally and definitely knocked out, along with the whole N. R. A. set-up, in the Schechter case. Congress in the Spring of 1934 re- ceived the Thomas-Disney bills, in- tary Ickes, and, it was claimed, by | a majority of the ofl industry. The oil code was still in effect at that time, but legislation creating N. R. A. was temporary. Moreover, the flow of “hot oil” was becoming increas- ingly difficult to suppress, and the code authority had suffered reverses in the courts. The “national petro- leum act,” as the legislation was known, would have imposed perma- nent Federal control of the oil in- dustry. Feared Later Demonstration. Secretary Ickes, at a Senate hear- ing in May, 1934, pointed out that the code would expire automatically in June of the following year, and said he feared “complete demoraliza- tion” of the petroleum industry in the absence of “proper regulation.” “We have been able to make real progress toward the stabilization of the industry under the code, but we have reached a critical point where its future effectiveness in maintain- | ing the improved condition of the industry is very doubtful,” said Ickes. “There are many loopholes in its pro- The penalties for violations are woefully inadequate. To make bad matters worse, the code has been declared invalid by the Federal dis- trict courts of Texas. Our hands are completely tied in that most impor- tant jurisdiction. The production of ‘hot oil'’ has been on the increase for the past several months, not only in Texas but in the other producing States.” The Independent Petroleum Asso- ciation, in a resolution in support of the legislation, declared the oil in- dustry faced a critical situation be- cause oil produced and imported was in excess of quantities prescribed by the petroleum administration. Gov. Landon, in a letter of April 15, 1935, to Senator Thomas of Utah, chairman of the Senate subcommit- tee handling the legislation, urged its passage “as the most practical method which has been proposed to solve many of the most serious problems now disturbing the oil industry.” Landon Feared Price War. “I am convinced that if this Con- gress adjourns without providing some such legislation, it will not be long before disturbances in the pe- troleum industry will result in a dis- astrous reduction in the price of crude petroleum,” Landon wrote. “This measure will supplement legis- lation which has been adopted by some of the ofl States, including the State of Kansas, in an attempt to prevent an oversupply of petroleum and its products from demoralizing the industry, and also to prevent a needless waste of this irreplacable natural resource. Our experience has been that the problem of balanced production cannot be achieved by the action of any single State, but requires. Federal action. “This measure, by setting up a na- tional hody to make the determination of the actual demand for consumption and for export from this country, and Bv tne Associated Press. A campaign by the Daughters of the American Revolution for strict en- forcement of teacher’s oath laws, starting with the Fall school term, ‘was announced yesterday by Mrs. Wil- liam A. Becker, president-general. In urging enforcement of laws now on the statute books of a score of States, the Daughters have frequently crossed swords with the National Ed- ucational Association, which has held that the oaths were not in keeping with academic freedom and unfairly implied disloyalty in the school-teach- ing profession. Mrs. Becker in a statement said: “No patriotic teacher should object to taking the oath of allegance. It is an honor, not a reflection, upon char- acter. It does not carry with it in- terference ‘h the right of educators D. A. R. to Launch Vigorous Teacher Oath Drive in Fall to-determine courses of study. Courses of study will be safe in the hands of loyal teachers.” In States requiring the oath, Mrs. Becker said, the Daughters will be “checking closely” on enforcement; in the others they will be urging enact- ment of the law. “We are not trying to raise any ‘red scare,’ but do maintain our posi- tion is sound,” she said. “Our one purpose in insisting on this pledge is to weed out, as far as possible, the un-American teacher engaged in planting subversive doctrines in the minds of future citizens.” She added that she issued her state- ment “to correct reports that the D. A. R. was attempting to create the slarming impression that America’s public schools are packed with com- munistic teaehers.” Saw Zioncheck Leap William Nadeau, right, br Marion A. Zioncheck, said he was trying to get Zioncheck to leave his office when latter dashed to window and jumped five With Nadeau is Earl Nathan, a deputy stories to his death. coroner. other-in-law of Representative —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | also to determine without prejudice or partiality the just and reasonable portion of such demand which should come from each one of the oil produc- ing States, and imports and with- drawals from storage, would make it possible to stop the excessive supply of petroleum products which breaks down the price structure and threat- ens to cause premature abandonment of wells of settled production. * * ¢ Policy Only Guarantee. “The point of fundamental impor- tance in the present so-called ‘com- pact’ between the States is that we have nothin general policy in regard to a uniform conservation law. * * * So far as the basic fundamental proposition of lim- iting production to consumption de- mand is concerned, the proposed com- pact does not touch this all-important point at all. In addition thereto, Federal control is needed on the fol- lowing terms: | 1. That the States, by voluntary | independent action and practical, in- | formal co-operation, or otherwise, I.'lyll State compact, always be given frst| opportunity to fix proper quotas for themselves and to enforce them. | | “2. That the Federal Government ! | aid the States in this endeavor by | | lending its powers in controlling stor- | | age withdrawals and impojts, which the States concededly canmot do. | “3.1f the States fail to make and enforce proper allocations, than then | the Federal Government do that | necessary job.” Landon added that “the enforc- ing authority which is given to the board in this bill is one of the most important phases.” | After the Supreme Court decision in | the Schechter case on May 25, 1935, | | placing definite limitations on the | Federal power to act in interstate mat- ters, hope of passing the Thomas-Dis- | ney bills or similar legislation was | abandoned. | Meantime, the idea of an interstate compact had steadily been gaining ground. It was finally executed in| | Dallas, Tex. on February 16, 1935. Congress ratified the compact the fol- lowing August. The States of New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinols, Colorado and Texas agreed to it and it is now in force. Other States may | join at any time. ; The compact expressly stipulates its | | purpose is not to limit production or | | fix prices. It declares for a policy of | conservation, provides for fact-finding and creates a commission to recom- mend measures of co-ordination. At |a meeting in Dallas just concluded representatives of signatory States pre- dicted other States will join them. Independents have said they will continue their fight for a tariff on oil or higher excise taxes. As late as May of this year a Ways and Means Sub- committee of the House conducted hearing on the Disney bill to double the existing excise tax of 21 cents a barrel, but took no action. This bill also would have taxed imported bunker | oil, for use in fueling ships, which in 1933 was exempted, and limited im- ports to 4.5 per cent of domestic de- mands. INNER MONGOLIAN CONTROL IS PRESSED Military Government Established at Japanese Instigation With Teh Wang Head. | Pr the Associated Press. PEIPING, China, August 8. —Japan has taken military and political steps | to support its plans to control Inner Mongolia, the vernacular press re- ported tonight. Two columns of troops, it was said, have been sent to Changpei, railroad junction between here and the Mon- golian frontier. A military government has been es- tablished at Japanese instigation in North Chahar Province, the paper added, with the Mongolian Prince Teh ‘Wang as its figurehead ruler. ‘The reports said most of the de- partment heads, including the mili- Ptary, are Japanese and the empire has established military missions in Teh- hua and at all main points along the railway between here and the inland province of Suiyuan, just south of the Mongolian border. The Manchoukuan General Li | Shou-Hsin, whose troops were repulsed yesterday in an attack in West Sui- yuan Province, was reported appointed | by the Japanese as mayor of the Teh- hua district. . German Employment Record. BERLIN, August 8 (#).—The government issued optimistic statistics today showing a reduction of Ger- many’s unemployed to 1,170,000, & new low figure, even below the 1,351,- 000 mark for the boom year of 1929. Automobile registrations were re- ported 17 per cent higher than in July, 15?. | but a declaration of | 9STATES REPORT | * ARIDITY RECORDS Kansas Sets Heat Mark.! Canadian Crops Hard ‘ Hit by Drought. PRy the Associated Press CHICAGO, August 8 (P).—At least | | one new heat record was set in Kansas todey while weathermen of two other | States—South Dakota and Illinois— | were totaling temperature figures for | the driest, hottest July in history. | { The mercury hit 110 degrees at In- dependence, Kansas, one point above the all-time high set in 1935. At Parsons, it was 108 degrees despite 22 of an inch of rain last night. | Wellington, in Southwestern Kansas, | reported 111 degrees. FUNERAL TUESDAY FOR' ZIONCHECK Death Piunge Attributed to Psychiatrist’s Advice to Take Long Rest. Funeral services have been set ten- tatively for Tuesday for Representa= tive Marion A, Zioncheck, whose five- story plunge to death in downtown Seattle, Wash., late Friday has been attributed by friends to worry over & psychiatrist’s advice that he take a long rest from politics. While friends and associates, as well as political opponents, expressed regret over the tragedy, Seattle offi- cials were reported by the Associated Press to have offered to arrange & public funeral, but there was no im- mediate response from the grief- stricken bride, who remained in se- clusion. Kenneth Romney, sergeant at arms of the House, who came to the aid of the headline-making Representative during his hectic experiences in the Capital, said he had received a tele- gram from Mrs. Zioncheck notifying him the rites probably would be held ‘Tuesday aftcrnoon. To Fly to Seattle. Romney said he would fly to Seattle to attend the services and talk with members of the family prior to carry- ing out a request to “unscramble” the business affairs of the Representa- tive, a mission personally imposed on him by Zioncheck before he left here a month ago after climaxing a series of escapades by escaping from a Towson, Md., sanatorium. Also in attendance at the funeral will be four members of the House land two from the Senate, appointed | by Speaker Bankhead and Vice Pres- ident Garner as official representa- tives of Congress. They are Senators Schwellenbach and Bone, Democrats of Washington and Representative Wallgren, Smith and Knute Hill, all of Washington, and Ekwall of Ore- gon. News of the spectacular trageds that resulted when the 35-year- Representative tore away from a rel ative and leaped head-first from the window of his office, falling a fev yards from a parked car in which his wife sat, has been kept from h. mother, Mrs. Frances Zioncheck, who has been ill for some time. She Wanted Him to Run. It was at her insistence, Zioncheck recently said, that he decided to ru for re-election last Monday after h ing announced two days before that he would not be a candidate. Friends intimated Zioncheck was about to undergo more institutional treatment, but had been given per- mission to attend one last political meeting, a postal employes’ dinner His brother-in-law, William Na- deau, had found the Representative penning an incoherent note when he entered his office to take him to the dinner. Breaking away on the pre- tense of going to get his hat, Zion- Hard-baked gullies dotted South | Dakota as dry reminders of streams | whose flow was never before stopped. Weatherman B. R. Laskowski looked | | at his books for July and announced | that the State had both frozen and “boiled” thus far in 1936. | At McIntosh, thermometer columm} | dropped to 58.8 degrees below zero in | February. On July 5, it was 120 above | in Gann Valley—a range of 178.8 points, one less than the difference be- tween freezing and boiling water. llinois Aridity Record. In Ilinois, July was one, long hot wave. Temperatures rose to 115 de- grees. Rainfall averaged 121 inches, 2.94 below normal, the driest in the weatherman’s memory. With Canada reporting the shortest | wheat crop in years, the drought was marked down definitely in grain men's | calendars as “much worse” than 1934. | Industry began to feel the pinch of | the dry weather. In Chicago. the In- | ternational Harvester Co. laid off | thousands of workers because of de- | creased demand for farm machines. | In Pittsburgh, some steel orders were cancelled. | Country merchants in the St. Paul- Minneapolis area were reported ‘“still optimistic,” however, in reports from | the Department of Commerce at| ‘Washington. Some relief, in the form of cooler | weather, was promised Minnesota and | the Dakotas over the week end. The rest of the drought belt was to blister | again, the weather bureau said, but rains were forecast for Southern Illi- nois and Indiana. CANADA'S CROPS HIT OTTAWA, August 8 (#).—The most disastrous drought in the history of several agrarian provinces, the gov- ernment reported today, has made deep inroads on Canadian crop pros- pects. A nation-wide survey of the effects of the July heat showed the outlook for Spring wheat in the prairie prov- inves declined 45 per cent, the Do- minion Bureau of Statistics reported. Only the maritime provinces, Brit- ish Columbia and a few counties in Ontario escaped the withering heat, the bureau said, in “one of the most disastrous experiences of farmers in the central part of the Dominion.” The Fall wheat estimate indicated a crop of 11,637,000 bushels, off almost | 1,000,000 from last year. Rye and alfalfa also were severely blighted. The survey said it was the eighth successive year in which July wheat prospects had fallen off under in- fluence of drought and other adverse | factors. “HORDE” OF MICE MINOT, N. Dak.,, August 8 (#).— Housewives blamed the drought today | for & mouse infestation that caught them and merchants who sell mouse traps unprepared. They said sun-baked flelds and dried-up vegetation apparently drove mice in from the fields earlier than usual in search of food. Supplies of mouse traps were quickly exhausted and new shipments expected over the week end were awaited to relieve the situation. | HELD IN ASSASSINATION | Moslem Leader Detained in Death of Algeria Dignitary. ALGIERS, Algeria, August 8 (P).— A Moslem leader, Taleb El Okbi, was detained tonight after an investigat- ing magistrate questioned four men accused of assassinating Mufti Ben Dali, another Moslem dignitary. Taieb, a champion of pure Moslem doctrines, was alleged by police to have offered 30,000 francs (about £1,950) for the killing of the mufti, lw August 2, | sleep, Zioncheck's widow, the for check plunged out the window before Nadeau could stop him. Referring to Zioncheck’s plans to be present at the political dinner County Prosecutor Warren G. Mag- nuson, a candidate for the Demo- cratic congressional nomination, said “he thought he could show his friends that he was all right.” Suffered From Melancholia. The friends said Zioncheck's case had been diagnosed as depressive mel- ancholia and that the family had been warned not to leave him unat- tended when he was having spells of depression. Nadeau said the Representative had written a letter to a psychiatrist, Edward D. Hoedemaker, at the fa 1ly's request. “Dr. Hoedemaker had told me ther> was nothing wrong about Zioncheck— 8s far as being insane and all that.” sald Nadeau. “But he told me Marion was terribly depressed and that 1 should watch him.” No official verdict of suicide has been issued in the case, County Cor- oner Otto H. Mittlestadt having set an inquest for Friday after announc- ing Zioncheck had apparently taken his own life. Widow Sobs Through Night. After a night of sobbing and xtful mer Rubye Louise Nix, P. W. A. stenog- rapher whom he married last April after 8 whirlwind courtship, was re- ported by friends to be bearing up well. She spent the night at the nome of Mr. and Mrs. Louise N. Smal!, neigh- bors. Her sister, Mrs. Jesse Stitt, left Blytheville, Ark, yesterday by plane to join her. “She didn't say anything—just sat weeping most of the time,” Small said. “She slept some.” For the sake of his pretty, hlond wife, Zioncheck announced after his return West that he would be a “good boy.” There were no repetitions of his | Eastern escapades that resulted in ais arrest for speeding and finally his con- finement at Gallinger Hospital and Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Sanato- rium for mental observation. May Receive $10,000 Grant. Friends recalled the surprise he ex- pressed when his wife jeined him, wholly unexpectedly, on his trip West after his sudden departure from the Capital. She flew West and boarded his train as it neared Seattle. Under congressional precedent, the widow probably will receive a Gov- ernment grant of $10,000, an amount equal to one year of her husband's salary. There are a number of tangled af- fairs which might claim the attention of Romney in the Capital when he goes about carrying out Zioncheck's request to “unscramble things.” One of them involves the expensive black roadster, in which Zioncheck careened over the streets and ran into trouble with the law on several occasions. It still is being held by the United States marshal’s office in connection with a damage suit filed by Mrs. Benjamin Scott Young, from whom the Representative subleased & Harvard Hall apartment. Wife Also Faces Charge. Zioncheck’s death ended assault charges filed against him by Mrs. Young after she tried to regain pos- session of the apartment and was evicted from it. Similar charges still are pending against Mrs. Zioncheck. Romney said the Representative's request to straighten out his affairs had been made during his last day in the Capital, after he had leaped a 7= foot fence and fled from the Maryland sanatorium, where he was taken under protest from Gallinger. “He left here with a serious perse- cution complex, the sergeant at arms said, adding that his fate probe ably would have been the same had he remained. Romney said he was glad he assisted the Representative to go to the bedside of his sick mother fore he died. y