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Page Two News Review Events tl Recovery Act Blue Eagle B Code Making Continues kon Kidnaping ai By EDWARD nr rn eagles of NRA by tlie hundred thousand arc flying all over tb?? United States; innumerable men and women, jobless for long, are going back to work : short** er hours and higher pay are being In^ stalled in factories. ' J shops and offices. tffLS- American commerce and industry is fast j being regimented ^ ? rresident ltoosevelt *"* J and his whole adk ministration are push L f?rwnr(^ *r ll,c re* .. _ , , covery campaign deH. 8. Johnson ,, termlnedly. Following out the President's program, (ten. Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery administrator, has "drafted" citizens in all the states to lead the great drive. Nine members were np pointed on each of 48 state "recovery boards." and seven members were named for service on 26 district "recovery hoards" for the recently made codes. The telegraphic notice sent each of the former by General John son was; "President ltoosevelt lias drafted you as one of the nine members of the stale recovery board for the state of . . .IB e.\|>l.l I III1I III IHIIII'llll .'U. u of July 20. lie has requested you to Tolunteor your services without con) pensntion In this groat drive for national rehabilitation. As n member of this board your duties will he to get every patriotic American citizen, employer. and consumer to co-operate In this program. I'lease wire acceptance immediately and you will receive further instructions." The advisory hoard for public works is doing its part In the re employment campaign by dealing out further large sums from the public works fund. Its head. Secretary of Interior Ickea, announced allotments totaling $ns,2$2,000 for one state and five federal proj ects. Added to allotments already made, brought the total thus far earmarked out of the three billion three hundred million dollar fund to $1,058,166,201. The stale project to be financed by "the government was beneficiary of the largest allotment. Sixty-three million dollars. Secretary Ickea announced, is allotted for construction nf the Grand Coulee dam In the Columbia river basin. The upper Mississippi 9-foot channel project, already approved by President Roosevelt, was allotted $11,500,000. This Is a federal project to be under* taken under the government's rivers and harbors program. Another $22,700,000 of the public works fund was earmarked for the Caspar-Alcova reclamation project in Wyoming, for many years the pet scheme of Senator John It. Kendrick of Wyoming. The federal forest service was allotted $15,282,745; the coast and geodetic 3urvey $2,000,000, and the geologic survey $2,500,000. O REPRESENTATIVES of the oil. coal, steel and many other industries were busily trying to ugree on their codes in Washington. In each tlioro ui>rn fooHnno n-if), /.nnllintlnn Ideas, and It was not easy to reconcile them. This was especially true of the oil men. Among them were many ad vocates of federal regulation of petroleum prices, but they were told by Administrator Johnson that he would not recommend to the President any price fixing until the effect of production control has been determined. Formation of the coal code was complicated by the riotous strike in the mining zone of southwestern Pennsylvania. IN BOTH the coal and steel code discussions there was controversy over the open shop versus unions. The steel men took the open shop clause out of their proposed code to facilitate settlement but they declared plainly that 'J they would stand for the present systems of employees' councils ? ? WSm In the Industry to J carry on collective bargaining. Mr. Johnson said he would not approve flHH any code that does _ _ . cot provide for ad- R" P" L?mont vlaory councils. On the old issue of how collective bargainings should be carried out, the administrator reiterated that N. I. R. A. provides for col The Cherokee S< of Current le World Over ecomes tlie National Bird?>?President Plans War id Racketeering. W. PICKARD | lcctive bargaining through employees chosen by the workers, j Robert P. Lament, former secretary i of commerce and now president of the American Iron and Steel Institute. 1 which represents OS per cent of the country's producers of pig Iron and steel Ingots, was the chief spokesman for the iron and steel industry at the hearings. Willintu Green, president of the A. F. L.. challenged various sections of the offered code, especially the minimum wage and maximum hours | provisions. Secretary of Labor Perkins, who had been making a tour of the Pennsylvania steel mills, wanted the wage rates altered, especially criticizing the 2.r? and 27 cents minimum hourly rate set up for the southern and Birmingham districts. Shortly afterwards Mr. Lament announced the Industry had agreed to raise the minimum pay In those two districts to 30 cents an hour. Both Green and Miss Perkins urged that the 40 hour week would not bring about sufficient re-employment In the Industry. Defending (he proposed code, Mr. Lamont said: "It Is estimated that on the basis of a CO per cent rate of operations and a 40 hour week, substantially all the 49.738 employees who were not receiving work July 1, 1933. would he given employment On less than a 40 hour week the Industry positively could not operate the mills nnd meet any demands on them In excess of present production. "The code establishes a minimum rate of 40 cents an hour for common labor In the Pittsburgh. Youngstown. north Ohio. Canton. Mnssillon, Cleveland. Detroit-Toledo. Chicago nnd Colorado districts. This rate is only 9 ! per cent less than the highest base rate paid during the last 11 years, j where living costs were above the present level." PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, contln * ulng his vacation at his home Id Hyde Park. N. Y.. called Into conference there Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley and discussed with him a plan to put all if ll eral C?vcrnmenl In*? . a campaign to wipe f9i out the two great kv.. i| I jfl evils of kidnaping and ft . # 1 M racketeering. Profea k A sor Moley was then k Vz&yW relieved temporarily I ^-bi ->* jH from his departmental Raymond '>?tle<. and placed at Mo lev a 0 11 sPec'al survey to determine where and how the federal power can host ho llCPtl no n u-nonnn o?..!???.? *Kn criminal. He is well fitted for this work, for he Is an expert criminologist, was an adviser to the New York crime commissioner and is the author of numerous surveys of crime, notably In Ohio and Missouri. As for racketeering, both the President and Moley see In the new recovery act the authority, which the federal government has heretofore lacked, to intervene In criminal cases Involving business conduct Until now, unless a criminal net infringed upon some specific federal statute, such as one of the postal laws or the Internal revenue act or a law based on interstate commerce, the federal govern ment had mo means of jurisdiction. In the oast the anti trust laws hnvp prevented the smaller Industries and business units from banding together. Such a condition provided a fertile field for the racketeers, for Illegal combinations, and for violence. The national recovery act. however, provides directly for the abrogation of the anti trust laws In cases where they Interfere with the working of the recovery program. Industry and business are forced Into trade agreements. The federal government sanctions and imposes those agreements and any act in violation of such agreements or tending to destroy the effect of the recovery act is made a crime. Against kidnaping, the President is counting on a super police force mod eled In a general way on England's Scotland Yard, the postal regulations, the Income tax law. and the recently enacted kidnaping statute. Recent instances of kidnaping are familiar to all newspaper readers. The "snatchers" have received large sums for the release of their victims In several cases. The relatives of John J. O'Connell. Jr., of Albany, N. Y? paid $40,000 for his freedom, and the ransom of Charles F. Urschel. millionaire oil operator of Oklahoma City, la said to have been $200,000. :out, Murphy, N. CM Frid CHESTER S. IX)RD. who a, managing editor of the New York Sun for nearly n quarter of a century was admired and loved by two generations of newspaper men. died at the age of eighty-three years, in his home In Garden City. N. Y. The "Boss.* as one of his reporters once wrote, "was never known in all the years of his managing editorship to utter an unkind word to any man on the paper, no matter how humble his station." RESULTS shown by the civilian conservation corps are deemed so satisfactory by the administration that plans are being made to continue the experiment for another six months. Orders are to he sent out for the re- j enlistment of nil those who desire to ' go on with the work. Enlistment is on a si\ months basis. The first "hitch" spires In November. There are at present 310,075 men in the corps, including 25,000 former service men. The forestry army is located in 1,43S camps in all parts of the country. The cost to the government is approximately $20,000,000 a month. POLITICS and sugar are making the * Cuban situation very difficult for the administration in Washington, and for Ambassador Sumner Welles. Though it anflounced thnr the po I W litirnl situation on the \ | island was clearing j i * up. and though I'resident Machado issued jPl : an amnesty proclamaI * tIon. the troubles there nre contlnulng. The A - St S Cuban people are In i distress, the school teachers In Havana _ ... ,, have been demonstratSumner Welles . . ., ing because they nre I not paid, and the veterans of the | war of Independence undertook to I hold a parade to call attention to their | Inability to collect their pensions. The old soldiers were attacked by police and severely beaten, right under the eyes of Mr. Welles, and It was reported the ambassador would demand that Mnchndo revamp his cabinet and dismiss Gen. Alberto Ilerrera. the cause of much of the recent disturbance. The Cuban ambassador In Washington Is persistently demanding a larger Import quota for Cuban sugar. This and this nlone would make the Island fairly prosperous and would lead to the subsidence of the political disorders. At present the sugar conference has tentatively set Cuba's sugar exports to the United States at 1,700.000 short tons of raw and only UO,(KV.? tons c? refined. Ordinarily United States importation of Cuban refined sugar Is about half a million tons. SENATOR IIUEY P. LONG'S arbitrary rule In l/oulsiana was seriously threatened when District .ludge I A P O-nnnnAll Investigation into the election of Inst fall in which Longs gang is alleged to have resorted to frnud in order to win. The Judge ordered fifteen election commissioners, arrested on charges of certifying to false returns, brought before him; nnd he granted permission to District Attorney Stanley to examine ballot boxes in open court. Governor O. K. Allen, a I^ong hench man. in trying to halt the investlga tlon. had declared New Orleans under martial law. but revoked the order after eight soldiers had been detailed to guard the grand Jury. The latter body appeared to be dominated by the Long crowd. The United States senate committee announced it planned to resume its Investigation of Louisiana elections within two months. The Times-IMcaytine called upon President Roosevelt to take note of "political racketeering" In Louisiana nnd not to overlook it in his "war on gangsters." THE apprehension of war between the United States and Japan, entertained by not a few Americans, is apparently felt In Japan also, despite official denials. The army nnd navy heads of the Island empire have just submitted to the finance ministry estimates for the 1934-35 defense expenditures larger than any in previous history and 45 per cent greater than the appropriation for the current year. These estimates included 190.000.000 yen ($50,400,000 at current exchange rates) for new naval construction and 75.000.000 yen ($21,000,000) for modernization of capital ships. The navy ministry asked for the fiscal year beginning next April 1 the sum of 680.000.000 yen ($100,400,000). which Is 30 per cent more than the estimates of 1921-22. the largest previous estimates for the sea forces. The combined Japanese fleet began preparations for maneuvers several hundred miles southeast of Tokio, In which the major problem will be a battle with a hypothetical enemy. FOR the first time since 1912 England's tennis team has possession of the historic Davis cup. The islanders won the trophy by defeating the French players at Auteull In the challenge round. France had held the cup for six years. C. 1**S. WesWfS Newspaper Union. ay, August 11, 1933 MRS. ELIZABETH BASS Mrs. Elizabeth Pass of Chicago has ! i reaped tlio reward of years of good i work for the Democratic party. She I has been appointed supervisor of nar* | cotics for "the Ninth Federal district ! i with headquarters in Ciiicago. < FEDERAL JOBS OF 1 HUNDREDS SAVED ' ! Dismissals Are Postponed by ' the President. Washington.?Hundreds of federal employees were assured they would l?e kept on the pay roll from fifty days , lo five months longer, instead of be- j ing dropped on August 10. A Presidential order holding up por- ( tions of the Itoosevelt reorganization i plan was issued through the State de- > partment. Hundreds of other employees In bu- . reaus and agencies not covered by the . modifying orders were not certain of i their futures. In this group are the j , shipping hoard, federal coordinating service and those affected by consoll i iijiuuu ui im; uuit-Miis iu iiiimi^riiinMi | | and naturalization of the Department ! ! of Labor. , Most officials In these agencies con- , sidered it probable these jobs likewise j j would be extended. j Dismissal of employees through consolidation of parks, buildings, reserva- ! tions, monuments and ceineterlec under supervision of the national parks , I service was postponed until Septera! ber HO. The majority of several thousand [ workers involved in this step, many per diem employees, are expected to j stay at work after September 30. I i Californian Wins the Horseshoe Championship Chicago.?Theodore Allen of Alhura1 bra. Calif., who had never before j pitched in a national title match, won the International horseshoe pitching championship at A Century of Progress. Allen won 20 games and lost three In the three-day tournament, tying for lirst place with C. C. Davis, Kansas i | City. Mo., who has been champion five times. In a pitch-off Allen defeated Davis in two games, the first, 50 to 38, and the second, 50 to 24. Gives Up After Killinsr of His Stepdaughter Long Beach, Calif.?Fred Smith, seventy-one, real estate operator, surrendered to police after his stepdaughter. Lucille Smith, thirty-five, had been shot to death and his wife, Mrs. Louise Lang Smith, fifty-three, probably fa- I tally wounded. Smith said he became I angry when they protested a property award he had made to his son, and the shooting followed. Town Government in Bay State Sent to Jail Wendell, Mass.?The board of selectmen of Wendell, three in number, en- | tered the Franklin county house of correction to serve three months after Judge Arthur F. Butterworth had Ira- j j poseci sentence. The three were convicted of having j I left the names of three residents of I thp town off the list of voters ills- ! i gaily, thereby depriving them of their j voting rights. His First Novel Wins $7,500 Harper Prize New York.?Paul Uorgan of Roswell, N. M., librarian of the New Mexico Military institute, is announced as the winner of the $7,500 Harper prize novel competition for 1033. The honor was awarded to his first novel to reach publication, "The Fault of Angels,'* which will be issued August 24. It Is a satire on the arts in a provincial American city. Lester Leland, Rubber Manufacturer, Is Dead Manchester, Mass.?Lester Leland, nationally known rubber manufactnr er and flnnmicr, died at his summer estate In West Manchester at the age of sixty-nine. DRUGGAN CAUSES 8 PRISON SCANDAL 8 Granted Peculiar Privilege! 9 in Leavenworth. B Leavenworth, Kan.?Terry DruggaQ M r?f Chicago's gangland Is causing trou. IB t>le at Leavenworth federal peniten- B tlary, where he is serving a two year I sentence for evading Income tax on M 313.0S0. His latest Haunting of priv Si in customs has brought "summary Bgg suspension" to n prison chaplain and ? two other penitentiary officials. ?? But while It lasted, Terry was able Sfi to visit regularly his Chi?.igo sw^et- 3h leart. Bernice Van do Houten. ne jS ran his beer business by long distance IP telephone from tlic girl s temporary residence In the city of Leavenworth. IP, lie had his meals ouiside the prison. & lie did sleep within the prison con. lines, finding a soft bed in a guards H juarters sufllciently comfortable. j?g Word of the beer baron's life of *ase Kg ivas carried to Sanfonl Bates, director jg| if the bureau of prisons, in Washing. ton. and he launched a quiet investi- i|| gntion. An assistant director or pris- j|| :>ns, J. V. Bennett, was sent to Leav- I? smvorth, and after n preliminary la- W restlgation, verified the reports. The three officials confessed their jg| part In permitting Druggan to roam W almost freely about the city of I.eavenwortii. resulting In the suspensions m being ordered and a more thorough !% inquiry being put under way. The three suspend. - are H Chaplain James A. Onling. Guard B Lester M. W abler and Foreman Auto ||S Mechanic Vernon B. Swearingen. || Director Bates said the trio had ad- ?| nltted making Druggan's tj such a H pleasant one. The warden contends, ||J according to the report received by ^ the director, that the liberties accord- ||j ed the gangster were "without his sanction and contrary to his direc Lion." 1 Druppnn was granted the rank of outside trusty and allowed to drive a prison truck. Once granted this privilege. Pruggan arranged with the guard to whom he was assigned, Tester M. Wahler, to "call at several places In tlie city of Leavenworth and also to visit a woman friend," the jfllelal announcement revealed. By telephone calls from the young woman's residence, Druggan kept in touch with his brothers, George and Willie, at the Druggan farm in I.ake Zurich, 111., and with the Druggan brewery Interests. Terry was able to discard his prison garb and blossom fortli in white silk shirt, flannels, and a soft fedora hat when he went to call upon his sweetheart. In addition to making frequent telephone calls to his mother nnd brothers, back in Chicago, he had them come to him in the gill's residence on occasions. WASHINGTON BRIEFS Henry Wetter of Memphis. Tenn^ was appointed adviser to the recovery administration for the cast iron soil pipe industry. Prof. Stuart A. Bice of the Diversity of Chicago was appointed assistant director of the census by Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper. Robert Woods Bliss retired as nraI 1 A- nftnP !1 dinlo imSBUUUr IU Alf(Clluim .. matie career of ,10 years. Ho was oppointed consul to Venice on August 1, 1008. Immediate printing of $10,000,000 In new money In the form of silver certificates on the basis of the 20.n00.00fr ounces of this metal received from Great Britain on her June 15 war debt Installment was ordered by the Treasury department James A. Moflfett, former vice prestdent of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, who resigned reportedly at the request of Walter C. Teagle, president of the companv, was appolnf - 1 rtf cd to the industrial advisory uua>u -the national recovery administration. Son of Senator Johnson Kills Self by Shooting Flillsborough, Calif.?Archibald M. Johnson, younger son of Senator Hiram Johnson, committed suicide by shooting at his home here. Johnson was divorced from his wife* at Reno, June 13, and she later mar* ried Commander Howard A. Flanlpan, U. S. N. In the World war Johnson, a major, was wounded Chateau Thierry. Chester S. Lord Dies; Former Sun Editor Garden City, N. Y.?Chester a Lord, former managing editor of the New York Sun and chancellor of the board of regents of the University of the State of New York, died St hta boa* here. J
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