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JULY 3, 1033.
BEER REVENUE IN SOUTH IS
DISAPPOINTING; MUCH BREW
SMUGGLED TO DRY STATES
Florida and Tennesse Tax Receipts Are Far
Under Estimates; Business Booms
in Maryland.
~hi in thr wcnnd of four *torir, bated on a nation-wide survey, describing
the pfTect of tbe return of local beer in various sections of the nation.
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BY JOHN M. GLEISSNER
NBA Service Writer
THE south, long a stronghold of prohibition, has been less interested
in the legalization of beer than any other section of the country.
Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas remain
legally dry, although beer is smuggled into those states from their beer
selling neighbors.
South Carolina reports the new beer has lost in popularity since its
first appearance, and that mountain moonshine has abated little.
Florida and Tennessee beer tax revenues have been disappointingly
small. The rum-smuggling business along the Atlantic coast still flour-
ishes.
Maryland, and particularly Balti
more, likes its beer. Baltimore re
ports noticeable increases in em
ployment, and sizable tax revenues.
The city has i>,ued 3,000 licenses at
SSO each, and taxes to the middle
of June amounted to $118,313.
A third of the city’s numerous
speakeasies have been driven out of
business; another third have taken
the locks off their doors selling legal
beer to all comers and hard liquor
to known customers.
Drunkenness Arrests Drop
Arrests for drunkenness have de
creased appreciably.
Revenues collected by Maryland
counties are exceeding expectations.
Baltimore and the District of Co
lumbia have produced $430,000 in
federal taxes.
West Virginia up to the middle
of June had collected about $250,-
000 in license fees and taxes. The
situation there is complicated, for
on June 20 Federal Judge George
W. McClintic voided the state’s law
legalizing beer and instructed a
grand jury that indictments might
be returned against those who sell
beer.
Legal complications also have de
veloped In Kentucky, where an ap
peals court ruled that beer was a
soft drink, and could not be taxed
under state law.
Question on Taxes
Now there is question on whether
the taxes collected—some $200,000
for the state and $50,000 for Louis
ville—will have to be returned. The
state tax is 10 cents a barrel.
Kentucky’s increase in employ
ment is estimated at 1,000 in brew
ing and allied trades. Pay rolls of
two breweries in Louisville increased
from $3,342 to $7,020 weekly with
beer’s return.
Beer has brought anew racket
to South Carolina—smuggling it
into dry Georgia. South Carolina
taxes beer two cents a pint, or 15
cents a gallon, and collects on what
its own citizens consume, as well
as on beer which finds its way
across the border.
Border counties are used as stor
age spots for the smuggling racket.
Rum Running Continues
The first thirty days of legalized
beer brought $75,000 into Florida’s
state treasury, a sum far below es
timates. state licenses cost from
$lO for small dealers up to $750 for
breweries. Counties along the bor
der, which sell beer for dry Ala
bama and Georgia, have profited
most.
Rum-running continues along the
Atlantic coast, with liquor cars op
erating on schedule as far north as
Missouri.
Louisiana expects to collect about
$500,000 annually from its beer tax
of $1.50 a barrel. Municipalities
are expected to get about SIOO,OOO
from levies which may not exceed
50 cents a barrel.
Several thousand men have been
iput to work in Louisiana's saw
(mills, largely as the result of dp
• mand for beer kegs. Breweries in
New Orleans also have hired addi
tional men.
I,oral Option Allowed
In Baton Rouge no net gain is
figured, since the number of those
serving legal beer about equals the
number driven out of the business
of selling home brew.
One Louisiana township has
availed itself of the local option
privilege of the state law, and sev
eral communities have declined to
enact ordinances for the regulation
of beer selling.
The state of Tennessee received
in taxes $20,C00 during the first
month of legal beer sale. It had
been estimated that the amount
would be $70,000.
State officials expect a total of
$1,000,000 in taxes during the first
year, and say low revenues at the
outset were because only one brew
ery was operating.
3,000 Get Jobs
Employment was not stimulated
as much as had been expected. Esti
mates are that not more than 3.000
throughout the state got jobs, many
of them cutting staves for barrels
and working in lumber mills.
The sale of beer is controlled in
Tennessee through local beer com
missions. In cities of more than
100.000, of which there are four in
the state, the retailer pays three sets
of taxes, one to the state, one to the
couny, and one to the city.
In Nashville and Memphis boot
leggers have been hard hit. The
price of hard liquor has dropped and
many speakeasies have had to take
out licenses to sell legal beer to sur
vive.
Oklahoma will vote in a state
beer referendum July 11 and already
applications for 20.000 retail beer
permits, representing an initial tax
revenue of over $2,000,000, are in
prospect,
NEXT: The return of beer in
the central states, birthplace of
the prohibition movement.
CAIMPING TRIP PLANNED
Two-Day Visit to Bedford Is Ar
ranged by Y. M. C. A.
A group of boys from the Central
Y. M. C. A. are planning a two-dav
camping trip to Bedford and sur
rounding points, July 20 and 21.
The twelve cabins at the "Y”
Camp Bedford will accommodate
eleven boys and a leader each. Boys
interested are asked to see Ira N.
Logan or R. C. Alford at the Central
*%”, 310 North Illinois street.
YEGGS BATTER
SAFE; GETS4OO
Thieves Use Ladders in Two
North Side Robberies
Over Week-End.
Yeggs battered a safe in the of
fice of the United Motor Company,
963 North Meridian street, Sunday,
and stole S4OO. The burglars entered
by climbing a ladder and descend
ing through an elevator shaft to the
office, where they broke glass in a
door.
L. J. Winegar. 3045 Central ave
nue, reported that burglars entered
his home Sunday and stole articles
valued at S4O. The thieves used a
ladder to reach a bedroom window.
A Chinese jewel box and other
articles, valued at more than $25.
were stolen from the home of El
mer J. Sponsel, 1852 Shelby street,
while the family was away.
Burglars stole cigarets valued at
sls from a Kroger grocery at 1539
South East street Sunday, John
Diersdorfer, manager, reported to
the police.
Dr. James F. Davis, 2510 North
Brookside parkway, reported to po
lice that a diamond ring and a
watch valued at SSO were stolen
from his home Sunday.
When she was away from her
home a few minutes Sunday, thieves
entered and stole S2O from a jewel
box on a dresser, Mrs. Irma Stevens,
1165 North Tibbs avenue, reported
to the police.
MATTERN'S FLIGHT
PICTURED IN REEL
First Scenes of World Hop
Are Film Highlight.
First pictures to reach the United
States of James Mattern’s arrival
in Moscow on his world flight and
appealing close-ups of the flier’s
mother waiting at Freeport, 111., for
late news of the progress of the
search for her son, unreported in
the Arctic wastes of Siberia; im
pressive scenes at Albany, N. Y.,
when thousands line the streets to
see A1 Smith walk to the capitol
with Governor Herbert Lehman and
Mayor John Boyd Thachrr to pre
side over the state prohibition re
peal convention, and an astonishing
demonstration of an airplane “loco
motive” that tows three gliders
through the air, are to be seen in
the current issues of The Times-
Universal Newsreel.
Grah m McNamee, noted radio
announcer and the screen’s Talking
Reporter, graphically describes
these and other important news
events in the reel
Other outstanding news events re
ported by McNamee include* strik
ing scenes at Carson, Wash., where
forestry recruits begin the work of
clearing the forests before plant
ing seed for anew crop of trees.
City theaters showing The Times-
Universal Newsreel include the
Alamo. Garfield, Howard, Rivoli,
Roosevelt, Tacoma, Zaring and In
diana theater if or colored), 410
Indiana avenue.
REGIONAL DISTRICTS FOR
PUBLIC WORKS PLANNED
State Boundaries May Be Discarded
by President, Says Ickes.
Bii Srrippt-Hoicard Xeicspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON. July 3.—State
boundaries may be discarded and
regional divisions established, each
under an administrator appointed
by President Roosevelt, in the or
ganization for carrying out the re
covery public works program.
It is stated by Interior Secretary
Harold L. Ickes, chairman of the
public works board, that alternative
plans will be submitted to the Presi
dent when he returns from his vaca
tion.
One of these will be the original
proposal to designate an outstand
ing citizen in each state to act as
administrator for that state.
It is believed, however, that the
board will favor a division of the
country into twelve districts with the
same geographical boundaries as the
twelve federal reserve bank districts.
WOUNDED BY ACCIDENT
South Side Man Shot in Foot When
Gun Goes Oil.
Malcolm Wade, 21. of 1031 Maple
street, was treated at city hospital
Saturday night for a bullet wound
in a foot, which he told police was
incurred when a revolver was acci
dentally discharged while it was be
ing shown to him by his brother.
Connie Wade, 1130 Maple street.
SEIZE BANDIT SUSPECT
Drug Store Owner. Clerks Pounce
on 19-Year-Old Negro.
Edward Becks. 19, Negro, of 918
West Tenth street, made a grave
error Saturday when he went into
the drug store operated by Frank
Lobraico at 1201 North West street,
police said today.
Lobraico and several clerks seized
Becks and held him until police ar
rived. Lobraico and the clerks said
Becks is one of two Negro bandits
who recently held up the store.
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William Storen, state treasurer, filled out this blank,
and it is typical of those to be filed by persons whose
only income is salary. The blanks are obtainable
at automobile license branches throughout the city
and state.
GRILL FIVE IN
KNIFING FIGHT
City Man Is in Critical
Condition After Melee
on East Side.
Martin Heneghan, 27, of 407 North
Rural street, is in city hospital in
a critical condition from a stab
wound near the heart, and four
other persons are under arrrest as
the result of a fight early Sunday
morning.
Others held are William Cox, 50,
of 4124 East Twenty-first street; his
son, William Cox Jr., 19; Daniel
O'Connor, 21, of 25 North Tacoma
avenue, and Wallace Igelman, 23,
of 40 North Temple avenue.
Police said the elder Cox made a
statement admitting he stabbed
Heneghan. Cox, police report, said
he and his son questioned two men
they saw near a neighbor’s garage
and who got into a car in front of
the Cox home.
Cox said he was knocked down
several times and his glasses broken.
He said he drew a knife and struck
Heneghan with it when the latter
came at him with a block of wood
as a weapon.
Heneghan, located at city hospital,
told police he was attacked by two
strange men who accused him of
crowding their car when he passed
them on Massachusetts avenue.
SELLER OF DRAUGHT
BEER UNDER ARREST
East Chicago City Councilman Is
Jailed After Raid.
By United Press
EAST CHICAGO. Ind., July 3.
John Tenkley, East Chicago city
councilman, who has been selling
draught beer under a Lake superior
court order since May 16, was un
der arrest today.
He is charged with selling draught
beer in violation of a supreme court
order which specifically ordered the
practice stopped.
Prosecutor Robert G. Estill and
deputy sheriffs raided Tenkley's
place of business. They also charged
him with maintaining a nuisance.
In Indiana beer control law pro
hibits the sale of 3.2 beer except in
bottles.
Youth Arrested by Police
Charged with vagrancy and
carrying concealed weapons, Earl
Wright, 19, of 52 North Keystone
avenue, was arrested Sunday at Lib
erty and Miami streets. Police said
he threw a gun away when they
approached him. Jack Brooks of
the same address, who was with
Wright, was arrested on a charge
of drunkenness.
Eight Are Murdered in
Kentucky Trustee Voting
Three Others Are Wounded
After Gun Battles at
Polling Places.
B'/ United Press
PRESTONBURG, Ky„ July 3.—A
school trustees election, in which
polling places of two counties be
came murder shambles, cost eight
lives in Kentucky, it was learned
today as reports were received from
outlying sections.
Three other persons were wound
ed.
Women and children fed from
voting booths in Floyd county and
adjoining Morgan county when vio
lent quarreling over candidates and
the time at which polls were to close
lea to wholesale shooting.
The Morgan county dead were:
John Lovely, Booth Cox and Luther
Cox, slain at the Goat Ridge school
house voting booth.
Those in a Floyd county
.•polling place were: Wilburn Cos mi
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIIVIES
After filling, the statement must be sworn to
before a notary public and mailed with payment to
the income tax division at the statehouse on or
before July 15. The report must cover receipts for
the months of May and June.
Two-Man Tornado Wrecks
House; Cops Quell Storm
Cool Off!
By Science Service
For a quick cool-off on a hot
day, dip your arms to the el
bows in cold water, the running
water from a faucet, for ex
ample. All the blood in your body
runs through your forearms in a
few minutes. So, if the water is
cold, you can cool down the body
quickly by this simple procedure.
HOLIDAY EVENTS ARE
PLANNED AT PARK
Auto Polo Teams Will Clash at
Riverside.
Special arrangements have been
made for Fourth of July celebra
tions at Riverside amusement park
Tuesday.
The American and Canadian auto
polo which met in a series of
contests at Riverside last season,
will meet in the new polo field in
the center of the park in the aft
ernoon. The game will be played in
two fifteen-minute periods.
An evening display of fireworks is
scheduled.
Additional tables and benches
have been added to the picnic
grounds, and arrangements have
been made to check picnic baskets
and parcels free. Parking space is
available for thousands of cars.
POLICE HEAD MAROONED
Stalled in Storm, Passing Motorists
Rescue Morrissey.
Police Chief Mike Morrissey en
tertains doubts today as to the abil
ity of police to answer emergency
calls quickly in stormy weather as
a result of being stalled at Ala
bama street near Virginia avenue
Saturday when pavement bulged
under the stress of heat and rain.
After being marooned for half
an hour, the chief was rescued by
passing motorists.
38; Wayne Click, 40; his uncle,
Minims Conn, 45; Millard Conn, 21.
his son, and Green Conn, 62, his
father.
The Floyd county shooting oc
curred at Prather Creek. The men
were partisans of Sol Sammons and
Arnold Robinette, trustee candi
dates who were running a close race.
One faction contended the polls
were closed, while a second held
voting could continue for -several
minutes.
In Morgan county. Lovely is sa*;
to have brought a woman to vote
and was told the polls were closed.
Guns were drawn when he insisted
on his point.
Shouts of fleeing spectators
merged with the crack of pistols as
first one. then another of the an
gered men crumpled.
Three of those wounded at
Prather Creek remained alive to
day. Lawrence Conn, 23, a son of
Green, was in a critical condition.
Ike Conn and Hayden Howell were
less seriously wound®*
Apparently, ’Twas a Grand
Party While it Lasted,
Police Reveal.
What price unwanted Sunday aft
ernoon calls?
Albert Smith. 27. of 2718 East New
York street, faced the dawn in city
prison today and found that it costs
one charge each of malicious tres
pass, transporting liquor, resisting
an officer, drunkenness, drunken
driving and assault and battery.
Aside from that, Albert had noth
ing to worry about except his friend,
Carl Fisher, 42, of 1832 Woodlawn
avenue, who also was arrested for
drunkenness.
Both men also had a vague mem
ory of calling on someone late Sun
day afternoon, of an exciting chase
around Monument Circle by a squad
of police and of a fight with “the
boys in blue.”
Just a Playful Party
When police amved at the home
of Mrs. William Barshier, 2014 East
New York street, they found the
home looking as though it had been
struck by a bolt of lightning and
Mrs. Barshier and Miss Bertha
Welch of the same addresss seated
in the midst of the disorder weeping
bitterly.
The telephone was ripped from
the wall, chairs and tables were
overturned.
Police were told that Smith and
Fisher, not known to Mrs. Barshier
or Miss Welch, had just departed.
The weeping women informed the
officers that the two men had called
and that when they refused to join
in the conviviality, their callers be
gan tearing things down.
Ring Around the Rosy
In close pursuit, the police fol
lowed the pair's automobile to
Monument Circle. Round and round
went the Smith-Fisher team. And
round and round went the officers.
On one turn of the impromptu
race. Smith is alleged to have
heaved the evidence—one jug of
liquor—over the side. But the po
lice won the race, and the junket
was brought to a halt, not without
a flurry of fisticuffs, however. The
cops won that, too.
Hold Last Rites for Pastor
By United Press
FT. WAYNE. Ind.. July 3.—Fu
neral services were conducted at the
Plymouth Congregational church
here Sunday for the Rev. Arthur J.
Folsom, who died last week after a
heart attack. Nearly 2,000 persons
attended the rites.
Gone, but Not Forgotten
Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to:
Homer Berry. 2243 Madison avenue. Ford
roadster, from rear of 2243 Madison are
nue.
Charles Sandaee. 2232 Centra! avenue.
Chevrolet coach. 50-172, from Illinois and
McLean place.
Albert Allee. Belle Union. Ind., Ford
dump truck, T-110-773. from Belle Union.
Charies G. Mevers. 332 Northern ave
n.ue coach. 16-332. from in front
of 332 Northern avenue.
Edvard Jolly. 1214 Southeastern ave
jaie. Chrysler coupe. 8-334. from rear of
1214 Soutneastern avenue.
Ralph Howard. 2617 North New Jersey
street. Chevrolet coupe. 93-219. from
Fountain Souare.
John J. Butler 703 Congress avenue.
Ford, coach, from Broad Ripple park.
Lilnan H. Nvdgeger. 2825 North Dela
w.are street; 113-630. from garage in rear
of 2820 North Delaware street.
BACK HOME AGAIN
Stolen automobiles recovered bv police
belong to:
F. Kruse. 2353 Guilford avenue. Nash
sedan, found at Twentv-fourth street and
Sanester avenue, stripped of batterv and
headlight bulbs.
C. E. Wheeler. 2308 West Morris street.
Oidsmobile sedan, found in front of 2708
West Walnut street.
Roy Cork. 5932 Dewev aveenue. Chrvsler
sedan, found at East and Market streets.
R E. Lvster. 1717 Kentuckv avenue.
Pontiac coupe, found at River avenue and
Rav street.
Fav Turner. 1454 King avenue. Hupmo
bile sedan, found on Harding street south
of Raymond street, wrecked against a
utility pole.
E. L. Young. 4927 West Vermont street.
Chevrolet touring car. found in garage
in rear of vacant house at 804 West
Washington'Stwet.-stnppsd oi tires, bat
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GREEN KEEPS
UP BATTLE ON
40-HOUR CODE
Protest Against Proposed
Textile Plants’ Work Week
to Go to Roosevelt.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, July 3.—William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, intends to
protest to President Roosevelt
against acceptance of a forty-hour
work week and a sl2 and sl3 mini
mum wage scale in the cotton textile
code.
If Administrator Hugh Johnson
consults his labor and employers'
advisory boards before making rec
ommendations to the President,
Green will protest there also. He is
a member of the labor advisory
board.
If not, Green will go to the Presi
dent with a request that working
hours be limited to thirty a week,
and that minimum wages be fixed
somewhere between sl4 and sl6.
Other members of the labor ad
visory board also are on record in
favor of shorter working hours and
higher minimum pay.
Look to Precedent
In spite of Johnson's denial that
the cotton textile code is to es
tablish wage and hour precedents for
other industries, it was evident to
day that some trade groups now at
work on codes are determined to
consider it such.
Os the codes already near comple
tion, a majority propose a forty
hour work week. As soon as the
second draft of the cotton textile
code was submitted, the offices of
the recovery administration were
deluged with requests front trade
associations for copies of it.
Some branch of the wearing ap
parel industries probably will be the
next to be heard on code provisions.
Many Codes Prepared
No new completed code has been
submitted to the recovery adminis
tration for approvel except that of
the castiron soil pipe industry, and
that is to be laid aside because it
covers such a relatively small num
ber of persons.
Upward of a hundred codes now
are in process of formation. A con
siderable number tentatively are be
fore the recovery administration for
suggestions before being crystallized
into defiinte form. But until one
of the major industries submits a
code agreed to by a majority of
firms involved, no new notice of
hearing will be announced.
Asa result of this temporary
pause in the hearing schedule, the
calendar probably will be crowded
to overflowing in a few weeks.
If Johnson's expressed hope of
having most of industrial America
under codes within three months is
to be carried out, numerous hear
ings will have to be held simulta
neously through the summer
months. Seven deputy administra
tors already have been appointed to 1
take charge of this work.
Meanwhile President Roosevelt is
discussing progress made so far with
the recovery program, at a confer
ence today on board the cruiser In
dianapolis with cabinet members
and other administration officials.
Among those industries which are
proposing a forty-hour week are the
National Knitted Outwear Associa
tion, National Association of Hosiery
Manufacturers, Clothing Manufac
turers’ Association of the United
States, Throwsters Research Insti
tute for the Needle Trades, and Toy
Manufacturers of the United States.
GRAB SLAYING SUSPECT
Hoosier Youth Held at English,
Awaiting Jury Action.
ENGLISH, Ind., July 3.—Donald
Willis, 22, West Fork, was held in
the Crawford county jail here to
day pending a grand jury investi
gation of the slaying of William
Archibald, 50, of Sulphur, during a
holdup attempt.
Sheriff Alia Armstrong said
Archibald identified Wiilis as his
assailant. Archibald died in a
Louisville hospital.
Farmer Puts End to Life
By United Press
LOGANSPORT. Ind., July 3.
Edward Smith, 60, farmer, killed
himself Sunday by shooting himself
in the head with a rifle. Illness was
blamed for the act.
L. S. A YRE S & CO.
will be closed
all day... July 4
Independence Day
Store Hours Beginning July sth
Daily—9 A. M. to SP. M. Saturday—9 A. M. to 1 P. M.
HITCHCOCKS HAVE SON
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Mrs. Tommy Hitchcock
Tommy Hitchcock Jr., famous
polo player, and Mrs. Hitchcock,
the former Margaret Mellon of
Pittsburgh, welcomed anew
daughter in New York. T!|e
baby is their second child, the
first being Louise Hitchcock, now
3. Mrs. Hitchcock is the daughter
of the W. L. Mellons and grand
niece of Andrew W. Mellon. The
widow of Alexander Laughlin Jr.,
she became the bride of Mr.
Hitchcock in 1928.
FARMERS TRUST
OFFICERS SUED
$70,000 Damages Asked
From Ex-Directors
of Company.
Suit for $70,000 against former
directors and officers of the Farm
ers Trust Company was filed today
in superior court three by attorneys
for Mrs. Mary Bain, 1425 Marlowe
avenue.
Allegation is made in the suit
that the officials “entered into a
conspiracy to cheat and defraud”
through their handling of invest
ment certificates.
The suit alleges that Mrs. Bain
purchased S7OO of the investment
certificates, which were represented
as being secured by real estate
mortgages equal to the full value
of the certificates.
Substitution of other mortgages
of les svalue in the trust created
for the certificates is charged in the
complaint, resulting in a $70,000 loss
to certificate holders.
Approximately 300 persons pur
chased the certificates which to
taled SIOO,OOO. Through the alleged
substitution, assets of face value of
only $78,000 were left in the trust.
It is alleged that the actual value
of the substituted assets is only
$30,000, resulting in the $70,000 loss.
The suit was filed in behalf of all
of the 300 certificate purchasers.
Defendants are Charles E. Cof
fin, Edward H. Forry, Alfred D.
Hitz, Edward A. Kahn, Leroy J.
Keach, Chai’les R. Kellogg, Frank
M. Millikan, James W. Noel, Carl
A. Ploch, Mark V. Rinehart. Riley
E. Smith, Charles N. Williams,
Thomas N. Yynne, the Farmers
Trust Company and Boyd M. Rals
ton, receiver.
Logansport Pastor Dies Suddenly
By United Press
LOGANSPORT, Ind., July 3.
The Rev. Edward M. Kuoncn, 57, of
the Methodist church, died suddenly
Sunday.
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EDUCATED THAN
FORESTLEADER
Robert Fechner Director of
275,000 Young Men
in Camps.
Following Is another article in the
series on ieading personalities in the
Roosevelt administration.
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
I nited Tress Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. July 3—Robert
| Fechner holds thp distinction of
| being the only one of President
I Roosevelt’s dozen 'dictators’’ who
; does not hold a college degree.
He did not attend high school.
He didn’t finish grade school.
’’Why, most of my clerks are bet
ter educated than I am.” he ex
claimed at the interior depart
ment. where he is in charge of the
275,000 men in the President’s re
forestation camps.
Instead of going to school, Fech
ner became a machinist’s apprentice
at 15 and wandered over most of the
country during the ensuing years
looking for work. He’ll never forget
that time in Texas when he was
broke, hungry and discouraged.
Someone invited him to a party,
where he won a prize of $5.
"It .just about saved my life,” said
Fechner.
Leads Labor Union
Twenty-one years ago he joined
the International Machinists' Union,
later became vice-president and
established his* headquarters in
Boston. He was granted a furlough
when Mr. Roosevelt appointed him
reforestation administrator.
Hardly had Fechner taken over
his new desk before a New York
salesman arrived, peddling toilet
kits. They contained an excellent
assortment of shaving cream, razor
blades, needles, thread, tooth paste
and unbreakable looking glasses.
They cost $1.40 each.
Fechner ordered 200.000 of them.
Kit Scandal Looms
The army quartermaster corps
charged that similar kits could be
purchased for 87 cents each. The
j army charged further that Fechner
had wasted SIOO,OOO. Opponents of
the administration immediately
pounced upon the incident. They
hinted at scandal. The name of
Louis McHenry Howe, secretary of
the President, was drawn into the
controversy.
There was a senatorial investiga
tion. Fechner said he bought the
$1.40 kits because he thought they
were good value. Howe said that
he did not influence Fechner in the
purchase.
The committee exonerated Fech
ner of all charges, but suggested
that, in the future, more care be
exercised in buying supplies for the
youths in the forestry camps.
Visits His 'Boys’ Weekly
The thousands of young men,
whom the President transferred'
from city pavements to forest glens,
apparently are Fechner’s greatest
interest in life.
He likes to drive unannounced to
the nearby-camps on Sunday after
noons, walk in and have rfinnjv
with his "boys.” He listens to their
troubles, gives them advice, pats
them on the back, examines their
blistered hands and often leaves
hours later without his charges even
learning his name.
Fechner is married, but his wife
spends most of her time in Bos
ton. The reforestation director
lives here in a second class hotel.
He says the fancy hostelries bother
him.
Next: Harry TANARUS,. Hopkins, smiling dis
penser of relief funds.
WAR TOKEN FOR NAZIS
Sword and Thunderbolt to Be Re
stored to Coat of Arms.
By United Press
BERLIN, July 3.—Tile sword and
thunderbolt, eliminated from the
Prussian coat-of-arms, will be re
stored shortly, Captain Hermann
Wilhelm Goering, Nazi leader, de
clared in a speech at Kolberg, in
Pommerania, Prussia, Sunday night.
Goering spoke at memorial
ceremonies recalling the city’s stand
against Napoleon more than a
century ago.
“Germany wants peace,” he added.
“We do not want to attack—but we
will not suffer being attacked.”