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THE BURNSVILLE EAGLE
BURNSVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1931.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Farm Board Quits Buying Cotton as Well as Wheat-
Government Securities Marketed—
Doings in Geneva.
-New
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
PRICE fixing by
• r stabilization has
finally been aban-
doned by the federal
i'• farm board, as a great
• many citizens believe
^ Y It should have been
^ long ago. Carl Wil-
.. . m hams, vice chairman
of the board, an-
. nounced that no fur-
ther purchases of
wheat or cotton would
Carl Williams, be considered under
any circumstances.
‘‘Stabilization," said Mr, Williams,
‘‘is valuable In the face of temporary
or seasonal surpluses. But the board
has discovered, and it hopes that the
American people have discovered, that
continued purchases in the face of
continued production Is not a remedy
for the agricultural situation,”
Tlie board’s cessation of wheat buy
ing had previously been announced,
but the statement of its determination
to withdraw from the cotton marker
was new, and was not pleasant news
for the southern planters.
B. A. Cudahy, Jr., president of the
Cudahy Packing company, gave notice
that his company would Invest 10 per
cent of its southern sales up to De
cember 1 in cotton bought qn the open
market, the total to be thus invested
being estimated at about $1,000,000.
The cotton will be held by the Cudahy
company for one year if necessary, or
until such time as cotton returns to 10
cents a pound. The. first purchases
were made at about 7 cents a pound.
W HATEVER the poor farm board
does seem to anger a lot of
Americans. The trade of wheat for
coffee, with Brazil, appeared to be
a wise move, but first the shipping in
terests wailed because the grain was
to go in Brazilian ships; then the
coffee dealers in the United States
raised a loud howl that their trade
would be Injured; and now the Millers’
National federation is up Inarms. The
reason for the protest of the millers
is that Brazil, as one result of the
wheat-coffee barter, has declared an
embargo on all imports of flour for
eighteen months. Most of the flbur
for South American export Is milled
in Buffalo. N. T., and several southern
cities, and the millers there will be
hard hit by the embargo. And that
isn’t all. Argentina heretofore has
been the granary for Brazil, and the
deal with the farm board virtually
kills the sale of nearly 10.000,000
bushels of Argentine grain to Brazil
annually. The Argentine government
has registered a formal protest in
Washington, but of course the deal
will go through anyhow.
If the farm board roaches terms
with China for the sale of a lot of
wheat on long term credit. It is pos
sible some of the old shipping board
vessels will be resuscitated to carry
the grain and will then be sold in the
orient. It Is also suggested that this
wheat be shipped in cotton bags, which
would help, by T.fiOO.OOO bags. In re
ducing the cotton surplus. It Is fig
ured this whole plan would give em
ployment to much American labor.
No solution of the cotton problem
has yet been reached. The Louisiana
legislature, at the behest of Governor
Long, passed a bill prohibiting the
planting of cotton in 11132, with the
provision that the governor might sus
pend it if states raising 7.5 per
cent of the crop failed to adopt
similar legislation. This put the mat
ter up to Texas, producer of one-third
of the nation’s cotton crop, and the
sentiment in that state appeared to be
against Governor Long’s scheme. For
one thing, the cotton raisers of the
South have neither the equipment nor
the experience to raise any other
crops.
swarming with
statesmen and polit
ical scientists during
the week. Economic
experts from twent.v-
six nations assembled
there as a co-ordinat
ing committee of the
commission for Eu
ropean union, and the
council of the League
of NalloD. met on „ ^ Lrivlnov.
Tuesday; while the
members of the League assembly were
gathering for the sessions of that body
beginning September 7. Most of the
top rfotchers were in the Swiss city,
and not the least nor the Idlest was
Maxim Litvinov, that wily and skillful
statesman who is the Soviet commis
sar for foreign affairs.
The first thing this Russian did was
lo submit to the co-ordinating commit
tee a proposal for a general non-ag
gression pact. Andre Francois-Poncet,
French delegate, tried to have the plan
referred to the economic committee of
the league where it could be allowed
to die, for France likes better the idea
of separate non-aggression treatle.s.
Litvinov, vigorously seconded by Doc
tor Curtins and Dino Grandl, Italian
foreign minister, Insisted upon imme
diate action. Tlie comiiilttee finally
agreed to pass the plan over to a sub
committee which was to edit it and re-
po"t back to the co-ordinating commit-
Senator Henri Beranger'of France,
former ambassador to Washington,
told the co-ordinating committee that
the isolation policy of the United
States was obsolete. ‘‘American en
tanglement in world affairs Is now
complete,’’ he said. "The penetration
of American capital since the World
war has made a ‘European bloc’ Im
possible. and provincialism appears to
be a thing of the past for continents
as well as for nations.
‘‘Recent events demonstrated that
the whole world Is involved as soon
as one nalioc Is in peril. No state can
be permitted to collapse without men
acing all other states.”
On the agenda of the league council
was the proposed Austro-German cus
toms union, but this seemed to be dis
posed of finally when the secretary of
the league received from the World
court at The Hague a verdict declar
ing the agreement was Illegal, being
in violation of the protocol of 1922 lii
which Austria specifically undertook
to maintain her economic and political
independence In return for financial
assistance from the big powers.
CECRETARY of the Treasury Mellon
placed on the market new govern
ment securities totaling $1,11)0,000,000
to start the fall financing campaign of
the treasury. Treasury bonds for $800,-
000.000 headed the list. They run for
20 to 24 years and bear 3 per cent ll^-
terest. the lowest since the war. The
rest of the total sum was made up of
$300,000,000 of one-year treasury cer
tificates of Indebtedness bearing Inter
est at the rate of 1^^ per cent.
It was revealed in Washington that
the governmenl would need probably
all of this huge sum to retire maturing
obligations and to finance treasury op
erations during the next quarter, which
makes'it ai,;puri=:rt that ihe dificii at
the end of,tfie year will far exceed
that for the last twelve months. In
some quarters it is predicted that the
deficit, taking Into consideration the
fact that there will be no war debt
payments this year, will run above a
billion and a quarter. The public debt
during the course of the year, if no
move is made to increase receipts, may
be Increased as much as a billion dol
lars.
BEAT BRITAIN’S
financial credit
; restored when
I American and French
^ « bankers, led by J, P.
; Morgan, agreed to lend
^ the governmenl $400.-
i 000.000 for one year.
In America the loan
—one-half of the to
tal—was absorbed by
the banks; but one-
M. Norman. half of the French
share was offered to
the public. The French were elated
over the arrangement, looking on it as
a fine political coup which would
bring Britain into close collaboration
with them both economically and p;^
lltically.
England’s financial troubles, how
ever. are likely to result in the down
fall of one of her financial giants—
Montagu Norman, governor of the
Bank of England. It Is believed he
will be retired at the end of his pres
ent term. .Mr. Norman was reported
to be on the verge of a nervous and
physical breakdown at the time of the
crisis, and he hurried over to Canada
for a vacation, leaving his associates
to get out of the mess ns best they
could. It was said, too, that before
leaving he tried to induce Mr. Morgan
to place the entire loan in America,
shutting out France, and that this was
reported to the French.
P RESIDENT MACHADO formally
announced that the Cuban revolt
had been entirely suppressed, and then
went fishing. The final blow to the
rebel cause came with the surrender
of Col. Roberto Mendez Penate. last of
its big militant leaders, and the de
parture for New York of Dr, Miguel
Mariano Gomez, former mayor of Ha
vana. Nacionallsta circles were
shocked when word of Senor Gomez’
departure became known. He had
been believed to be the only man with
sufficient support to keep up the revo
lutionary spirit.
F rank T. HINES, administrator of
veterans’ affairs, addressing the an
nual convention of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars In Kansas City, asked
on behalf of the government that all
veterans’ organizations refrain from
asking congress for further legislation
In their behalf until they have studied
and determined the ultimate cost of
relief acts on the law books. He
noted that the government’s annual
outlay for benefits to former service
men amount to about $1)00.(100,000 and
stressed what he termed the ‘‘iDevit-
able trend” of all forms of veterans’
aid toward increase above the initial
expectations.
In the meantime, he said, the prin
cipal need of veterans Is more Jobs,
lie explained the bureau was working
with the Labor department toward this
end.
J OSEPH PAUL-BONCOUR, chairman
of the foreign affairs committee of
the French chamber of deputies, gave
out in Paris a statement in which he
renewed the proposal that the nations
of the world place their armed forces
under control of the League of Na
tions, and predicted that France would
lead the way in the disarmament con
ference in 1932. This statement was
declared by the French foreign oflice
lo represent the permanent view of
the government. In Washington ofli-
cial quarters it was received coldly, be
ing regarded as a move on the part
of France to determine the attitude of
the new national British ministry on
the old subject of pooling of arma
ments.
S EVERAL incidents
within the last
few days have served
to bolster up the
Roosevelt boom for
the Democratic Pres
idential nomination.
After angering Tam
many — apparently—
by supiiorting the
plans of the Repub
lican legislators of
New York In the in- T. C. T. Crain
vestigation of the ad
ministration of New York city, the
governor siffoothed all this out by ap
proving the demand of Tiimrnany that
the inquiry be enlarged to take in the
whole state. Then came the report of
Samuel Seabury. commissioner, in the
case of District Attorney Thomas C. T.
Crain. Mr. Seabury mildly censured
Crain but recommended that he should
not be removed from office. The worst
he had to say against Crain, after
months of delving into his record was
that the Tammany prosecutor had
'‘busied himself ineffectively" and that
particularly as regards the racketeer
ing situation, had failed to act ‘‘in
fitting and competent manner."
Mr. Crain being a good Tammany
man, the supposed breach between
Governor Roosevelt and Tammany was
still further lessened, and the prospect
that he would have the support of the
entire Democracy of New York in next
year's convention was still further In
creased.
O NE of those brutal crimes that
shock the natlot) occasionally
came to light when Harry Powers of
Clarksburg, W. Va., confessed that he
,hg(l murdered .Mrs, Asta j Richer of
P.irk Ridge, a suburb of Chicago, and
her three children, and also Mrs. Dor
othy LemUe of Massachusetts. The
bodies of his five victims were found
buried under his garage. 1‘owers had
wooed Mrs, Eicher through a matri
monial Journal and enticed her and
the children*to Clarksburg, where he
slew them with a hammer and by
strangulation. Since he had been cor
responding with many other woman
the authorities have been searching
his place for other bodies.
G OV. C. BEN ROSE of Montana,
convinced that many forest fires
were being set by unemployed men
so they could get work fighting them,
placed several counties under mar
tial law and sent detachments of the
National Guard to halt the incen
diarism.
S IR HALL CAINE, one of England’s
most eminent novelists, died at his
home on the Isle of Mao of heart dis-‘
ease, at the age of seventy-eight. His
novels made him the storm center of
many controversies and they also made
him one of the wealthiest novelists in
the world.
M rs. piioebr
OMIJE of Mem
phis, Tenn., veteran
woman aviator, was
the victor in the wom
an's division of the
^ ® national air derby
which started at San-
ta Monica. Calif., and
finished at the na-
► lal air races in
Cleveland, When the
handicap computa
tions of the race offi
cials were ended it was found that
Phoebe also had won the open sweep-
stakes, besting all the men contestants.
Winners in the men’s division were
D. C. Warren, first; Lee Brusse, sec
ond; Eldon Cessa, third, and Marcellos
King, fourth.
After a good night’s sleep, the ener
getic Mrs. Oinlie jumped into her
plane again and won two closed course
Phoebe
C REW’S of six ships of the Chilean
navy mutinied at Coqulmho and
held their officers prisoners, demand
ing that the government cancel reduc
tions fn pay that had been announced.
A group of noncommissioned officers
were directing the activities of the
fieet at latest reports and they sent
the ultimatum of the men to Santiago.
The cabinet met in the capital and
decided that the mptiny should be pur
down with vigor, believing the entire
nation would support such a course.
The vessels concerned, representing a
large pan of the nation’s navy, were
the battleship Almirante La Torre, the
cruiser O’lliggins and the destroyers
Oreleia, Serrano, Aldea and Hyatt.
finally settled their long quarrel
over the ''atholic Action clubs, Those
organizations are allowed to resume
their activities but are restricted to
purely religious endeavors. They are
barred from sports and athletics and
are not to Intrude Into the syndical
or trades unjoulfielda
((El. 1031 Newsnaoer Union.)
FARM BOARD Gfl/E^ UP
STABILIZATKIN IDEA
It Will Not Buy Any More
Wheat or Cotton.
Washington.—Vice Cliuirmail Carl
Williams of the federal farm board an
nounced that no further purchases nf
cotton or wheat would -be considered
under any circumstances.
"Stabilization.” said Mr. Williams,
“is valuable in the face of tempornry
or seasonal surpluses. But the board
has discovered, and It hopes that the
American people have discovered, that
continued purchases in the face of
continued production is not a remedy
for the agricultural situation."
One observer remarked that the
farm board actually discovered this
fact some time ago, but, having the
bear by the tail at that .time, was not
in a position to make admissions.
As a means of reducing wheat acre
age, Williams suggested farmers liv
ing below the belt of 25-lnch rainfaO
let half of their land lie idle this
fall.
He said “summer tillage” was prac
ticed to a considerable extent now
below the 25-inch belt, adding that
“summer tillage” was cultivating the
soil and keeping it free of weeds with
out planting It to any crop.
Williams said portions of Kansas
and the Dakotas, the Texas Panhan
dle. New Mexico. Colorado. Wyoming
and Montana were below the rainfall
belt he mentioned.
A new wave of protests over the
action of the federal farm board In
trading 25.000.000 bushels of wheat to
Brazil for 1,0.')0.000 hags of coffee
Caere from the milling business to the
White House immediately ofter it was
learned that Brazil hnd declared au
embargo on imports of flour from the
United States. One of the protests
made public stated that the Brazilian
decree cuts off a marker for United
States fiour which has been worth
about $4,000,000 annually In recent
years. Millers In Buffalo and several
southern cities are espechdiy hard hit.
Overproduced cotton farmers of
the South have found n new buyer,
with the announcement of E. A. Cud
ahy, Jr., president of the Cudahy Pack
ing company, that 10 per cent of the
company's southern sales up to De
cember 1 would be iiivcsted In the
outright purchase oS’;'?''tton on the
open market., .(L'Se- i
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Mr. Cudahy assertt:.^;iAfit the total
sales of his conipnnj-4'pl’odiicts in the
South would probably mean that about
$1,OOO.IX)0 worth of cotton could be
purchased. It will be held by the
company for one year, or until the
price of cotton returns to ten cents a
pound, in an effort to help stabilize
southern comm)dity prices, he said.
Accord Is Reached by
Pope Pius and Mussolini
Rome, Italy.—A final accord was
reached by Pope Pius XT and Premier
Mussolini in their bitter three-months
controversy over Catholic Action
clubs, clarifying the conditions of the
Lateran treaty and the concordat.
The pope’s youth organizatons are
allowed to resume their activities, but
are restricted to purely religious en
deavors. It was specifically stated
there should he no sports or athletics
and no intrusion into the syndical or
trades union fields.
Ford Workers Called
Back lo Their Jobs
Detroit. Mich.—A welcome an
nouncement was made at the Dear
born office of the Ford Motor com
pany. when from 1.5,000 to 20.000
workmen were notified b,v postcard to
report for duty on September 8. the
(late set for the reopening of the Riv
er Rouge plant.
It is the present idea of the com
pany to recall at least 50,000 men by
the middle of September and still
further increase the pay roil after
that date until employment reaches
normal.
Postal Chief Sees an
Upturn in Business
San Francisco.—Increased postal
celpts are cited by Postmaster General
Walter P. Brown as an indication that
business conditions are on the up
grade. "Post office receipts for the
last two weeks in July showed a 3 per
cent increase over the corresponding
period in June." Mr, Brown said here.
Coleman Is Named New
U. S. Minister to Denmark
Washington.—Acting Secretary Cas
tle of the State department announced
the appointment of Frederick W. B.
Coleman of Detroit, now minister to
Latvia. Esthonia and Lithuania, to be
minister to Denmark. Robert Peer
Skinner, for more than five years
American minister to Greece, was
named minister to the i three Baltic
countries.
Ex-Congrestman Houston Dead
Woodbury, Tenn.—William Cannon
Houston, seventy-nine, who retired as
representative of the Fifth Tennessee
district in congress In 1920. after 14
years of service, dieo' nt his country
estate in Cannon county.
Jobless Face Forced Work
Wellington. N. Z.—Single unem
ployed men in New Zealand would be
drafted to work on highway and land
improvement work under plans being
considered by the authorities.
NATIDN SGDURED FDR
VICTIMS DF PDWERS
Confessed Slayer of 5 May
Have Killed More.
Clarksburg, W. V’a.—The nation
was scoured for trace of women with
whom Harry F. Powers corresponded,
to learn if more yielded to his lures
of wealth and social position and died
as did Mrs. Asta Eicher of Chicago,
Mrs. D. P. Lempke of Worcester,
Mass., and Mrs. Eicher’s three chii-
drei).
Officers here checked and recheckeJ
papers found In the possession of the
pudgy, forty-two-year-old student of
“scientific crime,” and admirer of
Rudolph Valentino. In Detroit, head
quarters of a correspondence agency
Powers used, records of the agency
were sought for further clews.
Meanwhile digging progressed about
the Powers death garage near here
for truce of any further victims;
court officials discussed the possibili
ty of a special term of court to try
Powers for the five killings he has
admitted, and Interest heightened in
the suggestion that Powers might
have been responsible for the mys
terious slaying In Washington of
Mary Baker, Navy department clerk.
Search of an old well near Powers’
garage revealed no further bodies,
but police were not satisfied. Still
doubting Powers’ statement that the
five he strangled and heat to death
"are all there are,” they made plans
for using a steam shovel to tear up
the acreage about the place and pre
pared to search the bed of a nearby
creek.
Conferences between Criminal Court
Judge John B. Southern and Will E.
Morris, Flarrison county prosecutor,
continued. Demands for prompt dis
position of tl)e Powers case poured
In upon the prosecutor after the dis
covery of Mrs. Lempke’s body. There
was no indication, however, of what
action might be taken.
Powers’ attorney meanwhile refused
to commit himself as to the possibil
ity ot a plea of Insanity being
tered when the trial is called,
tempting to combat any sucli r
the state called Dr. Edwin E. Mayer,
Pittsburgh psychiatrist, who said he
found Powers “legally sane."
City Detective Carl Southern an
nounced receipt of word from Wash
ington police that Powers' iJescrip-
tion tallied with that of a suspect in
the killing of Miss Baker two years
ago.
A "death code” by which Powers re
corded the progress of his corre
spondence with women throughout the
country was discovered by detectives.
Letters and postcards he received
in response to his lure of wealth and
affection were found to be marked,
apparently for filing. A fragment of
an envelope gave an apparent key to
one of the markings. The mark was
‘‘P-15.” It bore the notation "grave
yard." Such a marking was found on
letters from the two women he con
fessed he killed.
Price Pessimism Noted
in Farm Survey Report
AVashington,—Price pessimism is
strongly refiected in the Agricultue
deimrtment’s monthly review of the
farm situation.
The review said that with regard
to the principal cash crops, wheat,
cotton, tobacco and potatoes, the chief
concern seemed to be over the prob
able size of the surplus for sale.
None of these crops is of record
proportion, the department said, with
potatoes a little below tbe average
yield, "but the present state of the
market gives farmers very little as
surance.”
The report said prices of cattle and
hogs, although low, were still high
enough to allow some margin for
feeding.
Ammel Will Attempt
to Fly Around World
Los Angeles. Culif.—Roy W. Am
mel of Chicago, pilot and aeronautic
engineer, says he will attempt a two-
stop flight around the world next
April.
Contracts, Ammel announces, will
be let for the construction of an air
plane of his own design, possessing
two Isotta-Fraschini motors motors,
each developing 800 horse power.
He says the flight will start from
either Los Angeles or New York.
Hopi IiAdian Wins in
22-Mile Mountain Race
Idyllwild, Calif.—In three hours and
36 minutes. Tom Humpiireys, twenty-
six-year-old Hopi Indian, won the 22-
mile mountain climbing race from
Idyllwild post office to San Jacinto
peak and return, Twenty-three hikers,
including four women, started. R. .M,
Angler finished three minutes behind
Humphreys, and Robert Gray, seven
teen-year-old Pasadena junior college
student, was third.
Von Gronau Reaches Chicago
Chicago.—Capt. Wolfgang von Gro-
nau completed his flight from Ger
many to Chicago, landing with his
crew of three in the Dornier flying
boat at the Eighth street ramp in
Grant park.
Taylor Commands Fleet
Shanghai.—Rear Admiral Montgom
ery Meigs Taylor assumed command
of the American Asiatic fleet. 11'?
succeeds Rear Admiral Charles B. Me
Vay, Jr.
SENATOR JOHNSON
Senator Hiram \V. Johnson of Cal
ifornia, in addressing the state con
vention of the American Legion at
Long Beach, attacked the Hoover ad
ministration, declaring that it was
“futile and inept” in its lack of pol
icy for relief of the unemployment
situation.
REVISION OF TAXES
IS HELD UNCERTAIN
Hoover Program Not Yet Ready
for Congress.
Washington.—The fact that the ad
ministration is unprepared at the close
o’ summer to say whether it is^look-
ing loward tax revision in congress
next winter was attributed to several
factors, including the financial insta
bility of Great Britain and Germany.
In view of the .unsettled econotuii
conditions not only In this country
but throughout most of the world, the
administration will not knr^w until
almost the last moment before con
gress convenes whether to recommend
any lax increase.
Although bond issues are being
floated to take up the .$903,000,000 defi
cit at the close of the last fiscal .year
and to cover the loans on World war
veterans’ bonus certificates, it is made
clear that the administration is no(
(Ihsposed to live indefinitely on the
"tat” It accumulated In prosporous{
times.
If the economic outlook should Im
prove. the administration probably
would not hesitate to run up tem
porary deficits in the hope of renewed
surpluses later. But if economic im
provement should appear remote, it is
understood that the atJministration
would insist on a more nearly balanced
budget.
Never has It been so frankly recog
nized in Washington that tlie Euro
pean situation dominates the econ
omy of the United States, and, to a
marked degree, influences the domes
tic taxing policy of this nation. This
is partly on the ground that .American
business recovery will be retarded so
long ns there is doubt about the fi
nancial stability of importaut Euro
pean powers.
Fire Prevention Week
Set by the President
Washington,—President Hoover pro
claimed the week of October 4
Prevention week and solicited "the as
sistance of each citizen to help lessen
the loss, needless waste, and suffering
from fires largely preventable."
The President said fires in the
United States last year caused a direct
property loss estimated at nearly $500,-
0(X>.000. an increase of $40,000,000 over
1929. and that deaths and injuries
resulting from fires exceeded 35,000 in
1930,
"The purpose of national fire pre
vention week Is to focus attention on
the hazards of fire and to promote
preventive measures."
Murray Says Sinclair
Blocks $1 Oil Price
Oklahoma City.—Gov. W. H Murray
charged that Harry F. Sinclair, iietro-
leum magnate, was blocking a return
to dollar oil and a‘ the same time the
state threatened an investigation of
recent retail gasoline price increases.
Paul Walker, chairman of the state
corporation commission, asserted high
er gasoline prices, announced by most
companies since crude prices started
their recent climb, are not Justified.
Blaze Laid to Children
Nearly Wipes Out Village
Cornwall, Ontario.-Two persons
were Injured, one probably fatally,
in a fire which destroyed most of
Osnabruck Center. The authorities
expressed the belief that children
playing with matches started the
blaze, which left 30 persons homeless
and razed .33 buildings in the village,
20 miles west of here.
Gotham Doesn’t Want Idle Men
New York.—Out-of-towiiers. unem
ployed or penniless, are not welcome
in New York city this winter. The
city serves notice that it cannot and
will not receive the. usual winter pa
rade of tbe hungry.
Kills Girl and Self
Grand Bay, Ala.—Edward Stafford,
twenty-six. a policeman, shot and
killed Betty Owens, twenty-one, daugh
ter of Tiny Owens. Southern league
pitcher, and then killed himself.
RELIEF PLANS GIVEN
D. K. BY GOVERNORS
Owen D. Young Will Man
age Funds Mobilization.
Washington.—The administration’s
plan for unemployment relief received
approval from eight state governors
as the national organization selected
leaders in American industry to mob
ilize resources in locni comnmnitics
to meet the situation this coming win
ter.
Commendations of the plan being
carried out by Walter S. Gifford, na
tional relief director, were received
at the White House from five gover
nors, while three prevbmsl.v had sig
nified their hearty approval.
The chief executives indorsing the
plan were Cross of Connecticut,
Brucker of .Michigan, Emmerson of
Illinois, Parnell of .Arkansas. Conley
of West Virginia, Rolph of California.
Winant of New Hampshire and Gar
diner of Maine. They expressed con
fidence the states and cities would
care for the local situations and
pledged their co-operation. Governor
Emmerson said he was confident his
people “realize their responsibility and
the duty they owe to their unem
ployed and unfortunate fellow citi-
Gifford announced that Owen T).
Young of New York had consented to
head a mmraiitee composed of well
known citizens to aid in mobilizing the
resources to meet tlie emergency.
The same kind of men are being
sought to make up committees whicii
will be charged with administering
the relief fmffis and devising means
of distributing and Increasing em
ployment.
Meanwhile President Hoover was
studying the nation’s fiscal outlook
with a view to continuing federal con
struction said to be furnishing employ
ment for 386,000 men.
Young’s Job will be to stimuate in
terest in local fund-raising campaigns
that are conducted during the period
from October 19 to Novc-inber 25. The
national relief organiznth n is attempt •
ing to have all relief drives conducted
at that time.
Before that period, however. It is
planned to seek contributions from
wealthy citizens and big corporations
in ordei- to give the campaign a good
start.
While, pr'^'^ris-
President’s, organization is to provide
relief. It is continuing Us activities
toward preventing distress by increas
ing employment and keeping those
who support families on salary rolls.
To this end il is Inaugurating a
nationwide radio campaign to encour
age young people to stay In school un
til employment conditions improve.
William Gi-een. president of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, made tlie
first of a series of speeches to urge
youths to remain In school for their
own good, and thereby not compete
for Jobs with heads of families.
More than 61,000 disabled veterans
of the World war were reported by E.
C. Babcock, national commander of
the Disabled American Veterans, as
out of Jobs.
Establishment of a regular two-way
homing pigeon message service be
tween St. Thomas and St. John, Vir
gin islands, was announced by the
War department.
(Charging the reorganized federal
service is "unsatisfactory and bitterly
disappointing,” Francis I. Jones re
signed as director general of that
branch of the Labor department.
Genera! Lassiter was ordered, re
lieved of his cominan'’ of the Ha'wai-
lan department in preparation for re
tirement October 1. General Lassiter
has a long and distinguished career.
Frank Bane, commissioner of pub
lic welfare of Virginia, was appointed
by President Hoover as national wel
fare director In connection with the
employment relief organization head
ed by AValter S. Gifford. -
Zeppelin Makes Its
Second Brazil Trip
Pernambuco. Brazil. — The giant
dirigible Graf Zeppelin, landed here
within 20 minutes of the time esti
mated by Dr. Hugo Eckener when he
started from Germany on the nonstop
flight of about 5,000 miles.
This distance was covered in ex
actly 72 hours, at an average speed of
72 miles an hour. Doctor Eckener said.
The governor and his staff boarded
the dirigible shortly after, it arrived
and welcomed Commander Eckener,
the crew, and the 13 passengers, who
were then taken in automobiles to
hotels.
The Graf left two days later for
Friedriclishafen. Germany, on /the re
turn trip. This flight was the second
the ship had made to Brazil.
Mail Order Merger Off
Chicago.—Unable to come to terms
upon which interests representing
Sears, Roebuck and company and .Mont
gomery Ward and company, the world’s
two leading mail order houses, could
agree, overtures looking toward a con
solidation of the two were terminated,
It was officially announced.
Vallee Kidnap Plot Reported
New York-—A plot to kidnap Rudy
Vallee and his bride was reported to
police.
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