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5 CONGERNS FACE ‘COMBINE' CHARGE [rrades Commission Accuses Auto Parts Makeis and Jobbers. By the Assoctated Press. Five trade associations, described officially as representing a “substan- tial portion” of all manufacturers and gJobbers of automobile parts and acces- sories in the United States, were ac- cused by the Federal Trade Commis- sion yesterday of forming a combina- tion to control the market for their products. The National Standard Parts Asso- viation of Detroit and the Motor and Fquipment Wholesale Association of Chicago, national organizations; the Automotive Trades Association of Greater Kansas City, the Mississippi Valley Automotive Jobbers’ Associa- tion snd the Southwestern Jobbers’ Association were named in the com- plaint. R. C. Sparks, secretary of the Motor Equipment and Wholesale Associa- tion, commented in Champaign, Il.: “We have only been doing what they Yold us to do under the N. R. A.” H. N. Nigg, secretary of the Stand- mrd Parts Association, said in Detroit shere was “nothing new” in the com- plaint. “We feel there is no basis for the tharges and we have no feeling of guilt,” he added. In Kansas City, C. R. Barnett, ex- ecutive secretary of the Automotive Trades Association of Greater Kansas City, expressed belief the commission acted on “erroneous information” in paming his association. “Our skirts are clean,” he said. The complaint alleged the five asso- eiations, thelr officers, directors, agents eand members “combined together with pthers, jointly preventing the estab- Jishment of new and additional com- petitors, and executing certain agree- ments and conspiracies among them- selves and with others.” The case, the commission said, is a eonsolidation of two previously issued eomplaints, both of which have been tlosed. “The new complaint,” a commission statement said, “alleges substantially the same violations of the Federal ‘Trade Commission act as the two old complaints, and it is expected to sim- plify trial of the case through adjust- ment of certain duplications in the names of respondents listed in the former complaints, and through elimi- nation of various corporate respond- ents named separately in the former complaints.” The respondents were given until November 20 to “show cause” why the commission should not order them to cease the practices alleged in the com- plaint. C. C. C. USE URGED IN CRIME FIGHT Judge Sentencing Boy Who Threatened Shirley Temple Makes Appeal. B the Associated Press. ATLANTA, October 17.—Extension of Civilian Conservation Corps’ oppor- tunities to young boys to aid in crime prevention was advocated today by Federal Judge E. Marvin Underwood as he sentenced 16-year-old Frank Edward Stephens for sending an ex- tortion note to the mother of Shir- ley Temple. Stephens was sent to the boys’ re- formatory in Washington, where he may remain until he is 21. He was arrested several weeks ago and charged by the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion with being the writer of a note which demanded $25,000 “if you want to keep Shirley.” “It's & pity,” commented the judge, *that the money that will be spent to reform this boy, after he has com- mitted two crimes and has started life on the wrong foot could not have been spent in a more sensible fashior. “I don’t like to see the public money spent when it might be too late, and the money might be wasted. How much better it would be for the Gov- ernment to extend its C. C. C. oppor- tunities to younger boys, such as this | one, and steer him into the right paths before he has made & mis- take. LETTUCE STRIKERS MARCH PEACEFULLY 4 7Policemen, Gassed by Own Bomb, Only Casualties as 600 Parade. By the Assoclated Press. SALINAS, Calif., October 17.—Six hundred striking lettuce shed work- ers marched in pairs through down- town streets here tonight as police guarded against disorders. Shortly before the demonstration, Policeman Gerard Sheehy and three special officers were gassed when a bomb accidentally exploded among officers near the labor temple. The parade was under police per- mit, granted after city officials re- considered a previous refusal to allow the demonstration. As the marchers reached the labor temple, under police escort, they dis- banded peacefully. The parade took place as kundreds of non-union workers with about $65,~ 000 in pay checks came out of bar- ricaded packing sheds for week end shopping. Camel Oil Burner Hot-Water Heat Any B THE SUNDAY STAR, .WASHINGTON, Sailors Here Risk Lives for Science Sam’s Navy may be safe. conditions, by the men of submarines. type American mask, bers of the crew of Roosevelt (Continued From First Page.) counties to meet the President at the station here, arrived with him at the executive mansion, and entertained him at dinner. 21-Gun Salute. A band and a 21-gun salute greeted the President as he stepped from his train at Rochester for the drive to the hall along streets packed with yelling humanity. At the auditorium the crowds rushed forward almost in a frenzy to get as close to the Chief Executive as possible. They even prevented officials of | the presidential party and reporters | accompanying the President from get- | ting close enough to hear the brief address. that he mentioned & “real prosperity.” “I have just returned to my native State,” he said, “from a trip which has takem me into many parts of the United States—into areas devoted to agriculture, to mining, to cattle and sheep raising, to great manufacturing industries. “And everywhere I went I saw the cheerful faces and happy voices which told me that we had come back & long way to a real prosperity.” He dedicated a new Federal build- | ing in Buffalo, speaking from a plat- form in Niagara Square in front of the memorial to President McKinley. Returns to Capital Monday. The President expected to remain at his Hyde Park home only a day, | planning to return to Washington Monday, and, under tentative plans, | start a campaign sortie into New Eng- | land from the Capital Tuesday night. Providence, Boston and Worcester were the places mentioned most fre- quently aboard the presidential special as points for speeches. There was talk also of carrying the re-election drive into Connecticut. Just what the President’s plans are after the New England swing are even more definite, except for the fact that he is slated to end up his personal drive for four more years in the White House with a speech in Madison Square Garden, New York, Octo- ber 31. A cold drizzle followed the President |all the way through his home State | today. It was little more than a mist for his forty-eighth speech at Niagara Falls, but it fell steadily in Rochester, | where he brought the total for the trip to 50. His campaign special, after parking for the night in the Buffalo railroad yards, took him early this morning to Niagara Falls, where he dedicated a new W. P. A, stadium, packed to the edges with shouting people. “Happier Niagara Falls.” Right at the start of his informal remarks, he asserted that “many things have happened in the last four years, and I believe from what I just saw on the streets, it's a happier Niagara Falls.” He spoke of the value of such works projects as the stadium in providing recreation, adding that as shorter hours for work become more widely accepted, it becomes more necessary to give the people something to do when they are not working. That is one reason, he said, why the Govern- ment is helping to build parks, high- Do your home grounds Need' Landscaping? Wouldn't you like to have a better looking home grounds—one that will be a source of pride and enjo: ment? Simply call in our Landsca; experts who w HYATTSVILLE NURSEY 28 Oakwood Rd. Hyatts., Md. 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Cottrell, wearing the Washington Navy Yard daily come to close grips with waters so that divers and the submarine crews of Uncle Various types of experimental gadgets are tried out, under actual Washington’s naval school, especially for use in getting out of stranded a German maval d'fri,ir_;e Iotrh ufet irz i i d on the ocean floor; Lewis Zampiglione, ex ibiting the lates b g Lt ’ creation which recently saved mem- met an accident in the China Sea. —Underwood & Underwood Photo. ways, farm-to-market roads and “places like this.” He spoke also of relationships with Canada, saying he was “happy that the undefended border is becoming internationally famous.” Other countries talk about it, he said, and cite it as an example of something they wish they had. He grinned at a lad perched on a shed along the way to the stadium with two homemade signs. They read: “We ‘Want Roosevelt” and “Heck With Lan- don” and were signed “Maxy.” A 25-mile auto trip took the proces- sion of official cars to Buffalo. It was featured by a stop at a C. C. C. camp on Grand Island in the Niagara River and by attempts of some Buffalo cars numbered 36 to 38 to edge into the line at 40 miles an hour ahead of those up front carrying some of the White House staff and members of the official party from the train. In his Rochester speech Mr. Roose- | velt said that during his gubernatorial | administration opposition had been leveled at social and economic legisla- | tion from “the same sources in this| State which have opposed and are op- posing the same type of forward-look- ing legislation and administrations in the National Capitol.” New York, he said, was the first State to attempt in a major manner to care for the needy unemployed. From 1929 to the Spring of 1933, he | said, the State undertook to aid the farmers, to provide a relief system for | the aged, to develop water power and reduce electric rates and to strengthen | laws protecting labor. At the time he was nominated for the governorship, in 1929, he said, the | Nation already was sick, although it | had “not yet begun to feel the pain.” “It was a lopsided economy we were | living in,” he said. He added that the Nation's wealth | was being concentrated quickly and' | ernments—Albany and Washington— steadily into the hands of a few indi- viduals, interested only in their own welfare, who were “not only running the major part of our commerce and | industry, but were actually running the processes of National Government itself.” “The process of gobbling up more | and more independent businesses by merger, by purchase or by reorganiza- tion was going on apace,” the President said. The campaign special was met by a big depot crowd and a band late in the day at Utica. Original plans for a| speech in the city were abandoned for a rear-platform appearance, the first of the day. Representative Fred J. Sis- son of the Utica district, presented the | President. “There is one thing different than ‘n 1932, he said, “and that.is there | are smiles on the faces of the people.” “There is no question that things are better,” he repeated. “We have been thinking not only in terms of a greater prosperity for the moment, but have been trying to think again for the greater security of the men, women and children who are going to live after us. I am convinced by personal observation the people more and more, especially in the last three and a half years, are taking more interest in gov- ernment.” “We still have a long way to go,” he | added. “We can't still keep the old | model-T Government of 10 years ago.” | He said he was “quite confident” | about what the people of New York “are going to say about their two Gov- on November 3.” Noticing & sign, “1,000 Per Cent for Roosevelt,” he observed, “That’s all right.” The text of the President's speech in Rochester follows: “It was a very nice thought on the | part of you good people of Rochester | undertake in a major way the care of | D. C, OCTOBER 18 to give me this testimonial in this place. It is not only the spot where I was nominated for the governorship of this great State in 1928, but it is also the spot where I attended my first political convention in 1910. “I remember that meeting of 26 years ago chiefly because of the fact that the city was so crowded that 12 of us from the Hudson River counties had to sleep in one room, and 10 of us fought all night against the other two who wanted the single window kept closed. Those in favor of fresh alr won the day. Perhaps there is a parable in this, because I have been fighting ever since in behalf of fresh air and fresh opportunity for the people of this country. “Since the Rochester convention of 1928 much has happened. That year we were in the midst of the great jazz era—socially, politically, economically and financially. We were even then a sick Nation, though we had not yet begun to feel the pain—the headaches and the heartaches. Lopsided Economy. “It was a lopsided economy we were living in. The wealth of the Nation was being concentrated quickly and steadily into the hands of & few in- dividuals who were not only running the major part of our commerce and industry but were actually running the processes of the National Gove ernment itself. It is an unfortunate fact that they were interested in their own welfare instead of in the welfare of the great majority of the people who were engaged in business, in- dustry and agriculture. “The process of gobbling up more and more independent businesses by merger, by purchase or by reorganiza- tion was going on apace. H “It was not long after I became Governor that the skies fell, and it is perhaps worth noting that when that happened your State government un= dertook many policies which were ul- timately the basis of the national leg- islation of the past three and a half years. “From 1929 to the Spring of 1933, your State government had to fight the depression alone. Yet it is a fact that this State was the first to | its needy unemployed. It was, I think, the first State to tie in the success of its farming population with the prosperity of its industrial popu= lation—for it was in those years that we undertook to remove submarginal land from cultivation, to extend our forestry and our parks, our farm-to- market roads and our co-operation with the farm organizations and the farmers themselves. “In those years also we started the splendid system of relief for the aged; we worked for 'the development | of water power and for the reduction | of rates for electricity, and we greatly | strengthened the laws for the pro- | tection of labor. “It is also true that in the same| period the opposition to social and economic legislation of this kind came from the same sources in this State| which have opposed, and are oppos- | ing, the same type of forward-looking legislation and administration in the | National Capital. “I am happy indeed that during these past three and a half years the | State of New York has continued and strengthened liberal government under the wise and conscientious | leadership of our great Governor, Her- | bert H. Lehman. His has been a task | of great magnitude, but he has mu‘, each problem with successful action. | He and I are happy today that the | worst of the crisis is over. He and I are fighting today against the return| of former conditions and former | schools of thought. “I am happy to be back in my own home State, for Iam proud of it. Deep down in my heart I am confident that government which thinks in terms of | humanity will continue in Albany and | ‘Washington in the days to come. ODORLESS CLEANERS THERE'S A HOWARD BRANCH NEAR YOU 1631 17th Street N.W. 116 Park Road A ville, Md. 1122 Verm. LW, 138" 150n Sirest NE T 1647 South _Capltel St. 1912 14th Street N.W. 13 14th Strest N.W. 1936—PART ONE. Congressional Wedding Representative Aaron Lane Ford of Mississippi and his bride, the former Gertrude McDonald Castellow, daughter of Representative Bryant T. Castellow of Cuthbert, Ga., shown after their marriage at Cuthbert. Ford’s home is at Ackerman, Miss. Their marriage climazed a romance which began in this city. After a honeymoon trip to California the couple will return to Mississippi for a short time and then take a cruise to Panama. GUFFEY INCREASES G. 0. P. MAINE FIGURE Estimate of Contributions Is Boosted $46,275—Charges Tdentities Concealed. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 17.—Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Democratic Sena- torial Campaign Committee, said to- day he had been informed the Re- publican State Committee in Maine prior to the recent State election re- ceived $46,275 in contributions in ex- cess of the sum previously reported. “Many of these added contributions came from people living outside of Maine, including members of the American Liberty League,” Guffey said, “and an apparent effort was made to conceal their identity. “We have been advised further that much of this moneys was expended through & ‘special fund’ apart from the regular committee’s expenditures, the purpose of which has not been disclosed.” He said the contributions were listed by the Main State Committee under symbols instead of under the names of the contributors. Some of the con- tributors whose gifts were so listed, Guffey said, were: William du Pont, jr., $5,000; A. At- water Kent, $4,000; Albert P. Brad- ley of New York, $5,000; Greta Barx- dale Brown of New York, $5000; George F. Baker of New York, $5,000, and Donaldson Broewn of New York, $5,000. On September 9 Guffey made pub- —A. P. Photo. lic a list of contributions to the Maine election showing members of the Du | Pont, Morgan and Rockefeller fam- ilies had given a total of $51,000. This | week he issued a statement listing the | total contributions of the Du Ponts | and their business associates to the | Republican campaign in the nation as | $383,000. ROOSEVELT LINKED, TO RADICAL GROUP Reed Tells of Alliance With La Follette Unit Made Two Years Ago. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 17.—James A, Reed, former United States Senator from Missouri, attacked an “alliance between President Roosevelt and radi- cal and revolutionary elements” in a radio address here tonight. “More than two years ago,” Reed sald, “Roosevelt formed an alliance with the radical element of the Re- publican party, known as Progressives, or the La Follette group. He did so by the indorsement of their candidates and ticket. The entire La Follette group now indorses him.” Reed charged that President Roose- velt and Postmaster General Farley put an independent candidate in the field in the New York City election “for the purpose of defeating the Dem- ocratic candidate, with the object in view of electing the Socialist La Guardia, which was accomplished.” He said that in Minnesota the President had indorsed the Farmere Labor party. “The Communist platform declares the Communist party uncondition: supports the building of the Farmer Labor party,” Reed asserted. He said the President had “solicited and obtained the support of John I Lewis, whose proclivities are so radical that he has split away from the Amer- ican Federation of Labor.” Rexford Tugwell, resettlement ad- ministrator, was described by Reed as a “Communist or a Bolshevist, if in- deed there be any distinction.” FIRST-AID CLASS SET } To meet the demand for first-aid training, the District chapter of the American Red Cross will begin a sece ond standard course at 8 pm. Thurs= day at the chapter house, 1730 E street, The class will meet each Thurs- day thereafter for 10 weeks. L. Grar McCubbin, qualified lay instructor, will teach the group. 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