Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1937, Page 28

B—8 THE EVENING STAR, ROPER ADDRESSES WEIGHTS SESSION Says U. S. and State Co-‘ operation Necessary to Guard Against Fraud. Co-operative action by the States and the Federal Government is neces- sary to maintain honest weight and measure standards for protection of the consuming public against fraud, Secretary of Commerce Roper told the Twenty-seventh National Confer- ence on Weights and Measures today. He praised the work of the con- ference, attended by more than 150 Btate officials and others concerned with enforcing weight and measure regulations, as helping to “co-ordi- nate the thinking and action of all concerned “for the best results of all.” Recalling that the conference is £ponsored by the Bureau of Standards, which operates under the Commerce Department, Roper told the delegates that the bureau's mission is operate with you to contribute to needed exactness in dealing with the public.” | highly competitive era,” ued with the consuming public more nating and more exacting in its demands than ever before, honesty on the part of the #eller is not only the best policy, but the only policy that will retain confi- | dence and build trade volume Competition itself, therefore, influential factor minorities erfuge and camou- advantage of their customers. It is this group that must be brought and kept within terms of the law." Roper said intelligent t-«v—urd::va-l‘ tion of rules and regulations on the | part of the States and municipalities had made it possible to maintain a 1easonable degree of uniformity in regulations without the benefit of a central a t He urged loc officials to “think in broad, national fashion” in fixing weight and measure regulations, “C operative thinking and endeavors,” he said, “create the momentum that gives impetus to the progress of our Nation.” The conference was to conclude its four-day session here with election of officers and action on resolutions and various committee reports this afternoon. SLAYING, SUICIDE REVEAL TRIANGLE Lot Angeles Police Say Man Who Killed Woman, Self Had Two “Wives.” Br (he Associated Press LOS ANGELES, June 4.—A slaying and suicide were said vesterday by Police Detective E. J. Romero to have disclosed & triangle, in which the scion of a pioneer California family gave the impression of being one woman's husband while apparently married to another. Romero said that Joseph C. Duarte, 85, upon hearing Mrs. Edith Wes brook talking by telephone to a young man, shot her and then killed himself. . Virgil Westbrook, 18, told Romero &he understood that Duarte and her mother were marri ut that fre- quently after quarreling Duarte went to live with A “sister." Seeking the sister, police found Mrs. Grace K. Duarte, who said she married Duate in 1918 and never had heard of Mrs. Westbrook Describing the shooting a brook home, the daughter mero The telephone rang, and mother answered It was a young man, a friend of mother's, asking if we where his mother was. Duarte went into a er room, got a pistol, shot mothe the right breast. She stag- ®ered and fell on the bed. Then he #hot her aga ough the head “I tried to get the pistol away from him, but he pushed me away. He put the pistol to his head and fired.” DETECTIVES HIT IN C. 1. 0. CHARGES Civil Liberties Committee Probe of Alleged Intimidation Is Requested. B> the Associnted Press COATESVILLE, Pa, June 3 A request that the United States Senate Oivil Liberties Committee investigate tharges that private detectives have been brought to Coatesville to intimi- | date employes of the Lukens Steel Co. was made Wednesday by E. J. Lever, fleld director for the Committee of | Industrial Organization. Lever sent a telegram to Senator Robert La Follette, chairman of the committee, saying: “It has come to our | Attention that, pending the Labor Board hearing now being held as a result of our charges against Lukens Bteel Co, agents of a notorious de- tective agency have been brought here to intimidate Lukens workers, We re- quest an immediate investigation.” The C. I O. charged the company | has been guilty of unfair labor prac- tices. 5 | Robert W. Wolcott, president of the | steel company, in a telegram to Sen- | afor La Follette denied his company | had brought in detectives to intimi- date steel workers He said: “We respectfully urge and Invite a complete and thorough in- vestigation of the statement made in Lever's telegram. * * *" FINE CATTLE AUCTIONED | CHICAGO, June 4 (P).—Eighty-five head of pure bred Holstein-Friesian cattle, shipped from all parts of the United States and Canada, were placed on the auction block yesterday at the annual United States national Holstein sale. Canadian cattlemen had on hand 10 head of prize stock. Included were cattle shipped by Tom Dent, Wood- stock, Ontario; Jack McCague, To- ronto; Mount Victoria Farms, Hugson Heights, Quebec, and W. J. Elgie, To- ront IN THE NEW SHAKER TOP TiN The antiseptic, soothing powder | for the feet in a handy and con- | Yyenlens container for the dreas- | ing table and traveling bas. Sold by Drugglsts everywhere. 8oothes tender. swollen feet. 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