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WAGE-HOUR LAW
'IN EFFECT SOON
Miss Perkins Announces U.
S. Regulations Begin
sept. 28. .;
background
Vince invalidation of the na
tional industrial recovery act, the
tabor Department has been seek
ing legislation to impose wage and
hgjir standards on that part of in
dustry dealing with the Govern
ih'e'nt.
for months, the proposed lata
was snagged in the conservative
minded House Judiciary Commit
tee, but as the last session neared
its close the bill came out and was
approved with modifleffi^s in the
House.
r>n the final nioht-it was called
vp lor concurrence in the Senate
and was slipped through without
a record vote. A few minutes later,
reconsideration was asked, but 0
point oj order from the majority
leadership blocked the move and
tfoe Walsh-Hcaley bill was. on its
way to presidential approval, and
tfte status of law.
By ite A.-sociated Press.
Secretary Perkins announced last!
night that the Walsh-Healey act im
posing wage and hour restrictions on
firms contracting with the Govern
ment would go into effect Septem
ber 28.
At the same time the National As
sociation of Manufacturers said in a
bulletin to its members that the act
"could be applied only within very;
narrow limits” and cited the clause
excepting goods which "may be bought
in the open market” as a channel
tor numerous exemptions.
The new law provides that manu
facturers or dealers in bidding on Gov
irnment contracts must agree to estab
lish an 8-hour day and 40-hour work
week, ban convict ana cnuu itiuui. auu
provide sanitary and safe working ■
conditions.
The act also requires the contractor
to pay minimum wages prevailing in
the locality. Secretary Perkins said
the rate of the minimum wages would
be'determined only after public hear
ings.
‘ As a matter of practice." she
added, "the first industries which will
bg studied with a view to fixing the
rrjinimum wages will be those in which
ttoe minimum wages are known by
practical experience to be below a
dwent standard of living."
* Administrative Unit.
“Announcing that a special adminis
trative unit would be set up in the
Labor Department to administer the
lqw and that a panel of industrial and
labor consultants would be named to
eld in making decisions, Miss Perkins
said:
"Shortly before September 28 the
Department of Labor will promulgate
regulations in the draft of which the
principal contracting agencies of the
Government will participate. These
regulations will provide uniform pro- ■
cedure so that there will be no delay
in the normal procurement activities !
of other departments, but will enable
bpth the contracting officer and pro
spective contractors. to know in ad
vance their respective obligations un
der the act. -
"The prevailing’"wage provisions will
xiut pruuuce ueiay, smue no wage stip
ulation is required until the applicable
minimum wages have been ascertained
by the Secretary of Labor for a given
industry or group of industries. Until
this factor has been determined and
furnished to the various departments
It will not be necessary for the con
tracting officer to consider this phase
of the act.
“It is not expected that the eight
hour day and 40-hour week provisions !
will create any undue burden. There j
are very few industries today which j
generally exceed these limits. Under j
the authority of the Secretary of La- j
bor to allow reasonable limitations, ,
variations, tolerances and exemptions,
the regulations may provide for over
time, subject to the payment of the
overtime rates prescribed by the act. j
As these will be the same for every j
employer bidding on a specific con
tract or class of contracts, all bidders |
will be put on equal footing in this
respect.
. Special Consideration,
t “In fixing the amount of the over
time rate, the department will give
consideration to conditions in contin- j
uous process industries or industries of ;
aji extra hazardous nature, seasonal
peak production periods, flat weekly or ;
tiionthly wage scales. The same con- j
s{deration will be given to emergency
conditions.
' "Many inquiries have been received
With respect to floor warehouse and
yard stocks. The regulations will
probably provide for the purchase of
floor stocks without going behind the
actual and bona fide seller, when such
stocks are in the dealer's possession
when he submits his bid. The Gov
ernment will not permit goods manu
factured specifically for a Government
contract, however, to become ware
house or floor stocks in order to evade
the purposes of this act. The clause
relating to goods purchasable In open
market indicates that Congress in
tended to keep in effect present stat
utes permitting contracting officers to
make purchases in the open market
witnout advertising, under certain !
conditions, an<j also intended that the i
existing limitation.^ upon such pur
chases should not be affected by this
act.”
Various Opinions.
The manufacturers’ association
based its opinion that the act could
be applied only "within very narrow ,
limits” on various opinions handed I
down in interpretation of a 1912 law !
which it said sought to impose an 8-1
hour day on Government contractors. '
Among them was an opinion by Felix I
Frankfurter of the Harvard Law j
School.
The association cited 65 articles I
which it said had been excepted in i
application of the 1912 law. Among!
them were airplanes, bricks, canvas,
clothing, engines, machinery gen
erally, linseed oil, printing arid struc
tural steel.
The association assumed, it said,
that the precedents it cited "will be
accorded the respect to which they!
are entitled” In administration of the j
act.
Austrians Off to Berlin.
VIENNA, July 18. OP).—An Aus
trian military and economic commis
sion traveled to Berlin today, a
source close to the government said,
to work out practical details of the
new Austro-German agreement. No
official announcement of the trip was
made. —
: -m_
Subsidy Fu$4 Effective.
Germany’s new export subsidy fund
is showing results in increased ex
ports.
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
BREEZE.
AN ERRANT breeze sighed
through Georgetown* ancient
trees last evening, mischiev
ously slammed a door behind
a couple of girls living in a flat out
there and caused no end of a furore
before its naughty work was undone.
The girls, pretty stunning when you
see them on the street or at a party,
happened to be clad only in slips, that
being the correct garb when you are
young, female and engaged in moving
a trunk into a storage room. The door
that slammed left them locked out of
the apartment and with ho auxiliary
key this side of Heaven so far as they
knew.
What did they do? Well, they went
through all the mental anguish you
would expect in such a case until they
thought of taking a hammer lying
around there (the place is being re
modeled and the carpenters leave their
tools) and knocking a panel out of the
door.
The panel was mighty tough and the
girls quite unskilled in such work, but
they finally made it. You might think
that was the end of the story, but it
was not. The third girl living in the
flat came home about 1 a m., saw the 1
broken panel and the hammer and '
came instantly to the harrowing con- i
elusion that her co-dwellers had been I
murdered by a hammer slayer. They
had left a note saying otherwise hang- ;
ing on the door knob, upon which her
eye fell just before she fell into a faint I
from terror.
All told, it struck the three of them
as a pretty ill wind.
* * * *
FIZZ WATER.
You may be swimming these days
in the equivalent of soda pop. You j
may have heard it called soda ash.
It seems that a swimming pool
large enough to contain 600.000 gal
lons of water will use about 100
pounds of soda ash per day in the
purifier. No, not to soften the
water, as you might think.
The chlorine, so familiar to you,
when it meets organic matter, cre
ates hydrochloric acid. It is the
acid that hurts the eyes, not the
chlorine. The soda neutralizes the
acid, and there you are, bright-eyed 1
and happy.
* * * *
CHECK-UP.
AT* meeting of the Administrative
Council of the Board of Trade the
other evening George Plitt. former
president of the board, happened to
remark that his son and his two sons- j
in-law each is named G&ree—four 1
Georges in the family.
Somebody else commented that j
George might be a popular name, but |
not as popular as John. There were 30
guests at the meeting, and the sug
gestion was made that the first names
of those present be listed. The ‘ poll'’;
was taken, and the "Georges” won.
There were five of them—George
Graham, George Keneipp, George Of
futt, George Plitt and George Shinn.
The "Johns” came in second, with j
John Saul, John J. Esch, John Remon 1
and John Victory. There were only ’
two "Bills"—W. W. Everett and W. W. :
Wheeler. But there were three
"Bobs”—Bob Fleming, Bob Cottrell
and Bob Swope.
Those in the "lone wolf” class were
Harry Blake, Edgar Morris, Arthur
Heaton, Odell Smith, Fred Smith, '
Marcy Sperry, Granville Gude, Hay- j
ward Marshall. Ben McKelway, Claude i
Owen and Curtis Hodges. j
Oh, yes, there were two “Law- j
rences"—Larry Williams and Col. Law
rence C. Crawford. What's in a name,
anyhow1
* * * *
EXPLAINED.
pOLITICS is not the only manifesta
tion of Midsummer madness af
flicting the National Capital. Take
now these "fox-tails” that are flying
from countless automobile radiator
caps.
To begin with, they are not really j
fox-tails, confirming a suspicion that !
there could not be that many followers !
of the hounds nor the number of
brush-bereft foxes the display would j
seem to indicate. They are really fur i
scraps from the manufacture of fur !
coats fashioned into the form of tails. |
so the fur industry may be credited
with having hit upon this method of j
profitably disposing of what had been
waste.
When the motor accessory stores
first put these tails in stock, they had
the idea that they might be useful as
render guides in parking, but ap
parently no one wanted to buy two.
The highest price they have reached in
sne accessory chain is 9 cents, and a
special sale this week dropped the
price to 2 cents.
So it looks as though Capital motor
iom will be plentiously befurred this
hottest of all Bummers since the last
hottest Summer.
* * * *
INCIDENT.
Patrons leaving one of the down
town movie shows at the close of
a midafternoon performance this
week witnessed a little comedy
sketch wherein . there probably
lurked the elements of tragedy.
The ubiquitous sidewalk snapshot
operator took the picture of a
young and presentable couple and
handed them the usual order blank.
After reading the card as they
walked along, the same thought
seemed to occur to each one, and
they abruptly halted for a hurried
conference. , \
It didn’t last long, and the young
man hurried back to the snapshot
artist and thrust a bill into his
hand, while those in the immediate
vicinity overheard instruction* lo
"be sure and send the film with'-ti*
print."
Eyewitnesses supplied their own
explanation—the more romantic i
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GUARD REQUESTED
IN ILLINOIS STRIE
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Sheriff Asks Governor for
Ready Troops in Case
of Outbreak,
By the Associated Tresa.
STERLING, 111., July 18 —A request
that Illinois National Guardsmen be
kept lr. readiness to subdue possible
violence in a strike at the North
western Barb Wire Co. plant war. sent
to Gov. Henry Homer tonight by
Sheriff A. E. Hamilton of Whiteside
County.
The sheriff said he communicated
with the Governor by telegram alter
11 men had been sent to jail on
charges of rioting and warrants had
been issued for Jhe arrest of 8 others.
He said the Governor had not yet
replied.
30 Deputies Sworn.
Thirty deputies had been sworn in
and were guarding the plant, where
clashes between workers and picketing
strikers on Thursday and last night
led to the arrests.
Company officials, who said they
were determined to resist the strikers'
demand for a closed shop, blamed the
rioting on strikers who, they said,
pursued workers and beat them.
The barb wire plant was involved
in the Nation-wide campaign to
unionize the steel industry, although
Amalgamated Steel. Plate and Tin
Workers’ Union did not enter the
picture until some time after the strike
was called July 7 In demand for a
closed shop and collective bargaining
rights.
Van Bittner. Western regional direc
tor of the union movement, said the
Northwestern company workers had
joined the amalgamated, and leaders
of the latter had expected to end the
strike peacefully soon.
To Retain Open Shop.
The company, in a paid advertise
uiwwv, 1U3 n luittpuvuo wi
meet representatives of employes for
collective bargaining, but declared lti
intention to retain open shop.
City and county officials declared
existence of an emergency, and adopted
resolutions authorizing police to add
100 men to the force. Sheriff Hamil
ton said, however, his appropriation
for that purpose was almost gone.
Today 625 of the company's 1.400
workers were on the job, guarded by
the deputies and special police of the
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad.
TWO DIE IN CRASH
OF PLANE IN WEST
Dorothea Canfield. Pilot, Famed
for Hunts by Air for
Coyotes.
B« the- Associated Press.
NOONAN. N. Dak.. July IS —Mrs.
Dorothea Busse Canfield, member of
Western North Dakota's famous air
plane coyote hunting pair, and a pas
senger were killed today when the
woman's plane fell before crowds
gathered for an old settlers’ picnic
here.
Albert Lee. 35. of Noonan was the
passenger who met death. Mrs. Can
field was taken to a Noonan hospital,
where she died a few minutes after
the plane, its motor stalled at 200 feet
in a takp-off had nnsa-riived intn a
field. Her husband witnessed the
crash.
Mrs. Canfield, 27. and her husband
arrived here today on an annual barn
storming exhibition.
Mrs. Canfield, dark-haired, brown
eyed mother of two small children,
earned fame with her husband as the
team which in Winter hunted coyotes
by airplane on Western North Da
kota prairies and during the Summer
traveled over the State with two
planes.
While his wife guided the ship,
Canfield operated a swiveled shotgun
which blazed away at fleeing coyotes
with each swoop of the plane. The
pair's hunting exploits covered the
western half of the State, where the
Canfields were widely known.
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$200,000,000 SEEN
TO STOP ROOSEVELT
Clement* Say* “Moneyed Inter
ests" Are Ready to Spend
That Amount.
Br the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. Ohio. July 1*.—Rob
ert E. Clements, co-founder of the
Townsend old-age pensions plan, who
recently resigned from the organisa
tion. said tonight that "moneyed inter
ests” were ready to spend "as high as
$200,000,000 to stop Roosevelt.**
The former Long Beach, Calif., real
estate operator, here as "unofficial ob
server” of the second national Town
sena convention, saia me interests
hoped to achieve their end by launch
ing a third party which would deflect
enough liberal Democratic votes to
elect the Republican nominee.
"I was approached by a representa
tive of a New York trust company
lust after the Townsend convention In
Chicago last year,” Clements said. "I
was given to understand that finan
cial Interests were willing to spend as
high as $200,000,000 to stop Roosevelt
ind that a considerable portion would
Se used to finance the third party.”
Declining to name the representa
tive, Clements said: ”1 was told that
the plan would have to be carried for
ward with the utmost secrecy, that
the club members were to be made to
reel that it was their own spontaneous
movement.
"It was my understanding that no
ifficials of the Republican party were
Dehind the scheme, but moneyed in
terests who feared the re-election of
Roosevelt. Naturally the offer was
refused on the spot," he asserted.
assuming the young folks had been
forbidden each other’s company;
others their own cynical thoughts.
* * * *
ENGLISH.
T'HE lure of the Orient, according to
a Washington man who has just
■eturnea irom a Business trip mere,
consists primarily of the Chinese deal
ing with the English language.
He finds American English uninter*
■sting now and doesn't bother to read
ligns.
“We gather baggage and send it in
ill directions” U one Shanghai adver*
ising slogan, he says.
A notice in a tailor shop reads.
Xadies hare fits upstairs.”
A furrier’s sign reads, "Ladies' coats
nade from their owa skins.”
CAROLINA ELECTS
HATER OF JULEPS
But Clyde Hoey, Next Gov
ernor, Otherwise Is Perfect
“Stage” Southerner.
Srcclal Dispatch to The Si ar
CHARLOTTE, N. C.. July 18. <N.
A. N. A.)—North Carolina, through a
Democratic primary tantamount to
election, has just chosen for her next
Governor a suave, frock-coated."long
haired and rose-lapeled politician of
58 who's an astonishing epitome of
everything a Southern statesman
ought to be. save in his profound dis
taste for mint juleps and Carolina
com.
Clyde Roark Hoey of Shelby, Cleve
land County, in the heart of the cot
ton belt, la the candidate nominated
to excoriate the Republicans in a few
gesture* of Democratic wrath this
Fall and to preside after the first of
the year in Raleigh's mansion, the ex
ecutive privilege of Democrats since
the reconstruction.
SlUiC, CApcIlCIU.ru, lie pUNCWCfl a
flowing gift of speech which Is the very
flower of what we mean by Southern
oratory. He will probably be the mast
picturesque and the most colorfully
costumed figure the State ever has
had for a governor. He should be. for
he started practicing for the governor
ship at least 50 years ago.
Was Boy Orator.
Old-timers recall how the pinev,
eroded slopes near Shelby used to echo
with the oratory of the lanky and en
ergetic young Clyde Hoey. There was
no audience then save the cotton
stalks and the jaybirds. In the even
ings, in his nightshirt, he would ha
rangue his younger brothers and sis
ters from the rostrum of a bedpost.
l iir i l vs*- j o nuc ituw imu um. ui iitv
first families, and a university educa
tion was out of the question for the
boys. Young Clyde picked up his learn
ing by listening to North Carolina
political speeches, by reading all he
could, and by working in a country
print shop. In formal education, he
probably never went past the sixth
1 grade. Which largely explains w hy to
day the problem nearest his heart is
I how to expand the State public school
system and rescue the teachers from
| the poverty of salaries next to the
lowest in the Union,
i In the old days, when the boy ora
, tor of the State was! Shelby's Tom
Dixon—he later wrote "The Klans
man"—the gift of gab was the highcsl
talent a politically-minded young
man could develop, and Clyde Hoej
developed it as assiduously a?
Demosthenes did with his pebbles
He spoke everywhere. In neighbor
I ing Lincoln County he made his
speeches? against an audience armed
with guns to shoot him down.
Elected at 21.
He ran for the Legislature and was
elected at 21. deserting lor only a
year the little country newspaper ol
which he had become editor at th«
aaa evf U o Kara mn fi« an nmhi
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i tious young man had to become in
those days, a lawyer. He adopted
the long hair and the long coat be
cause that was the eo6tume of his
profession then, and he has clung tc
I it despite changes in style, because,
first of all. he really seems to like it,
| and because the garb is to him a
! symbol of an achievement.
As the editor of a country paper
J he learned the names and lineage ol
every country family as he trundled
| by buggy over the clay roads sleeking
' subscriptions. The files of his paper,
| 25 years ago, reveal that he was onr
; of the first editors hereabouts to know
the value of pictures. In a day wher
, cuts were expensive he jampacked
I his paper with local heady and
shoulders, and he never stinted an
I adjective when a lady’s bridge partj
! might thereby be socially enhanced
But he did not run for politics'
effices. That was curious, and that
: is why the county and the State knew
manv uaar: Q a r\ thflt PloH* T4 V U'9 C
j waiting, always in training, for hl.<
i chance to be Governor. He toured
i the 100 counties of North Carolina
; for 30 vearfl, campaigning for other
men. accepted an oppointment to
1 Congress, filled out the term and de
clined to run again. He even declined
a seat in the United States Senate a
few years ago when his brother-in
law, former Gov. O. Max Gardner,
offered it to him.
Ever-Present Rose in Lapel.
To get the full savor of the man. you
must have been on Shelby's Court
House Square a hundred Saturday
I afternoons. This is a typical coun
try cotton town; population, 15.000.
A tall, stooped, granite-haired man
in dark, long-tailed coat, striped trou
sers. high shoes, blazing red four-in
hand with stickpin, coat lapel notch
ed, with a fresh rose, descends the
rusty iron stairs of a small two-story
| red brick office building. On the street
and sidewalks the county has come
to town; buxon-cheeked country girls,
ambling farmers in store clothes, am
ple farm wives in bonnets, strong
bucks of the cotton patches with
roving eye, business men, substantial
: landlords.
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1I1CJ Sli EUUW WK
he knows them and their grandpar
ents.
They regard the costume as calmly
as the Inevitable sunset.
“Hi, Mr. Clyde!”
His response is never le*s than a
cavalier flourish and he gets the
names right. He proceeds half a
block to the corner drug store and
offers to buy the drinks. He spins
stories. The crowd loves it, asks his
advice, borrows his money, admires
him. This is his home town, but
there is hardly a crossroads village
in the State wherein he might not
stage almost the same performance.
Drinks and Votes Dry.
Still, the camaraderie of the rela
tion seems never to be marked by
downright familiarity, for Hoey has
been a special person too long, his
manners are almost too good, he has
been so long set aside for the gover
norship—and he is a personal and po
litical dry.
North Carolina’s dryness is a joke,
even here. The State votes for pro
hibition and would do it today if given
a chance, but neither the young men
nor the old ones stint themselves on
alcohol. Hoey 1s paradoxical—he votes
dry and drinks that way. But when
A1 Smith ran. Hoey campaigned the
entire State for him, because he re
gards the Democratic party as a holy
cause.
His recent campaign, in which he
was opposed by 33-year-old Dr. Ralph
McDonald, a college professor, was
arduous.
McDonald was wet, anti-sales tax,
good-looking, forceful. For months
the two battled it out in speeches and
in print,, and McDonald, in the end,
received enough votes to have elected
,-a governor, in moat Instances. But
Hoey topped him by S3,000 votes by
sticking to the old traditions, the woo
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Artist to Post Q-Men at Cumming’s Door
Henry Varnum Poor Will Equip Agents With Field Radio Out
fits and Microscopes.
—nil —I I ■ T-«1—MM I HI
Depicting some phases of the work of the famous G-men, a mural by Henry Varnum Poor,
when developed from the “rough sketch,” illustrated here, is to decorate one of the alcoves at
the entrance to Attorney General Cummings' reception room.
LOSSES REVEALED
BV CROP SURVEY
Hopes Retained in Some
Drought Belt States.
Others Gloomy.
By ‘he Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July 18—The dose of
another week of widespread drought
brought the following late reports to
day on crop conditions:
South Dakota—Spotted rains in ih§
last few day* were of no material ben
efit. Heat was very detrimental to
crops oi an Kinds ana pastures, in
limited sections of Southeastern South
Dakota the corn looks fair to good,
but needs good rainfall Immediately.
The State crop report this week said
small grains were virtually lost in all
except Southeastern South Dakota
Nebraska—Hopes for corn and other
crops still held, if rain comes soon.
Deterioration continued during week
of extra high temperatures, however
Iowa—Weather bureau today said
the heat wave probably was not yet
broken, despite scattered showers over
the •'tall com State,” giving relief last
night and this morning. Corn de
terioration this week, estimated by
Charles D. Reed, Federal meteorol
ogist, at rate of bushel an acre a dav.
Reed said cloudy weather today re
duced materially yield losses, which h®
totaled at 30.000,000 bushels for last
three days.
Illinois Com Loss Heavy.
Illinois—Heavy crop damage re
ported in East Central section, W. P.
A survey finds. Some estimates in th®
aita me turn uup unci luraunri
was 25 per cent, with 50 per cent ex
pectable if no rain arrived over the
weekend. J H. Lloyd, assistant direr -
tor of agriculture, said corn had been
hurt more by heat than by drought,
but offered no estimate pendmg reports
rrom field men sent into every countv
to survey conditions. The report was
scheduled to be compiled Monday.
Texas—The week saw improvement
over conditions seven days ago because
of rains which omitted hardly any
section. Ranges in the State were de
scribed as about equal to the 10-vear
average, cotton condition average to
good. The Panhandle wheat section,
however, is estimated to produce only
between 7.000.000 and 10.000 000 bush
els, about a third of normal.
New Mexico—Cotton making aver
age progress.
Oklahoma—Federal Crop Statis
tician K D. Blood said: • The situation
is much worse than a week ago or
teire of intense heat and lack of
moisture. It is impossible to estimate
the damage."
Wiscoasin—A good rain was be
lieved to have saved the corn crop in
Rock County, but general outlook con
:inues bad. according to experts.
Rains have been far too light in most
sections to bring appreciable improve
ment. Insect infestation spreading,
St.ate Entomologist E. L. Chambers,
reports.
Ohio—A break in the heat wave In
Dhio failed to spare Buckeye Stale
farmers* rrnn 1 noses ovnerteH rrarh
it least $10,000,000. Thirty-four
Southwestern counties have had no
material rainfall in over six weeks.
A generally good wheat crop is in
prospect at profitable prices, but
Ohio's corn crop may be no more than
75 per cent of the normal yield, pos
sibly 50 per cent, or even a complete
failure.
Indiana—Scattered rains in the last
few days have failed to shake the
drought's hold on Indiana, although
cooler temperatures prevailed today.
Agricultural observers at Purdue Uni
versity believe the'State's wheat crop
to be nearly normal but have pre
dicted a $12,000,000 loss in the corn
crop, although they say the crop is
not a failure. Oats are expected to
show less than half the normal yield.
Pastures are burned almost beyond
redemption for live stock grazing.
Missouri Retains Hopes.
Missouri—E. A. Logan. Federal agri
cultural observer, said 40 per cent of
t'ne Missouri corn crop could make
i comeback if rain fell immediately,
although each rainless day further
reduced prospects. He said he was
surprised at how well corn had held
up under drought conditions, var
ticularly in southwestern counties.
Recent rains have aided corn in
aoiuneasiern Missouri.
North Dakota—Federal Meteorol
ogist O. W. Roberts said deterioration
Df all crops continued rapidly since
a week ago. Corn, which was In
fairly good shape then, is much poorer
now. he said.
Minnesota — Slight Improvement
over the outlook a week ago noted
with harvesting of small grains re
ported as generally "better than an
ticipated.” Paul Kirk, crop statisti
cian. said corn prospects were aug
mented by rains in Southern Minne
sota. But in communities where no
rain received corn is nearing the
critical stage.
ONE HELD, 3 SOUGHT
IN NIGHT FLOGGINGS
tasked Riders in Mining District
Hunted—Arson Charges
Filed.
B ' the Associated Press.
WHITWELL. Tenn.. July 18 —
sheriff T. E. Coppinger said tonight
le had arrested one man and held
warrants for at least three others
or floggings and property deatruc
ion 1/ masked night riders in th*
oal mine district here.
Coppinger added he understood some
5 participated in flcggings reported
o him today as having occurred
rhursdav night.
The sheriff said the man arrested
ras booked as A1 Rollings and had
teen released under $15,000 bond on
harges of arson and conspiracy to
nflict corporal punishment.
Sheriff Coppinger said Tom Guffev,
3. an employe of the Black Diamond
dining Co. here, complained he was
chipped by a masked band and that
vvav nauam-o >CSlCi Ua>.
3uffey, the sheriff said, told him ha
►•as accused of "going to Chattanooga
o deal with the company.”
Some union miners of the Black
)lamond Coal Mining Co. had been
m strike since April 29 despite the
act the United Mine Workers of
America has signed a contract with
he company. The Whitwell local
ias Ignored orders of the International
►resident, John L. Lewis, to return
o work.
Sheriff Coppinger said the masked
nen also visited the Wagon Mine
if Lawrence McCullough cm Cum
ierland Mountain. 8 miles from here,
ilew up his hoisting engine, soaked
he mining shack with gasoline and
et it afire, and then whipped an
imploye.
Additional arrests are expected the
heriff said.
a
SYMBOLIC G-men. equipped with
field-radio outfit, microscopes
and other paraphernalia, are to
be posted at the entrance to
] Attorney General Cummings’ recep
! tion room in the Department of Jus
| tice.
These G-men will not be J. Edgar
Hoover's.
They will be Henry Varnum Poor's.
Poor is the noted New York artist,
who has been commissioned by the
Section of Painting and Sculpture
j of the Treasury to decorate with
] murals the alcoves outside the At
j torney General's office.
Keeping company with the F B. I
agents will be a group of silk-hatted
industrialists, depicting "big business"
in its worst implications: enlighten
J ed farmers of the Tennessee Valley,
depicting T. V. A.; a lawyer—pre
! sumably Cummings, although there
; is no facial resemblance—arguing the
- gold-clause cases before the Supreme
j Court, and a man handling a crate
I of frightened ducks, representing,
j Poor explained, "the poultry racket."
Eagle Will Preside,
i Over all will preside the majestic
figure of the American eagle against
a background of marble columns, a
shield, a flaming torch and an un
balanced pair of scales.
•
i With evident pride. Poor has dis
played the sample murals to Ed
ward B. Rowan, superintendent of
the Section of Painting and Sculp
ture and several Department of Jus
! tice officials. They appear to be
awed.
, The artist explained the drawings 1
are just "rough sketches," created
to see how the finished product will
look in the panels prepared for them.
The mural to be placed over the
door opposite the Attorney General's
office shows G-men engaged in a
variety of activities, the nature of
which was not entirely clear to in
artistic newspaper men. Four or five !
agents in what apepars to be a gla&s
| incased room are listening with head
, phones to a radio broadcast.
Autos and Planes in Scene.
Beyond the room can be seen an au- '
tomobile heading toward a bleak
stretch of land resembling shell-torn
No-Man's-Land.
Above the automobile a plane is j
j soaring at a precarious angle, as
I though taking off in a sharp bank.
Two men in the foreground are en
gaged in some grim business—the ex
act nature of which was a matter of
l speculation to reporters. One of these
i men appears to be holding a rifle while i
the other carries a limp body from a
shed. It was not settled to the satis- i
action of the newsmen whether these j
men were G-men or gangsters.
The T. V. A panel shows a valley
resident, armed with an axe. and his
wife, standing on the front porch be
aeath a brilliantly shining electricj
ight. At the bottom on miscellahe
nis documents, can be seen "Norris,” j
ind "Muscle Shoals,” with a dynamo
ying alongside.
Addresses Spectators.
The gold clause panel shows the
awyer with his back turned to several
olack-robed justices and holding a
aaper in one hand, while he gesticu
ates with the other. He seems to be !
addressing the spectators instead of
he justices. Beneath is a bag of gold j
ind other symbolic articles.
The high-hatted capitalists form a
lackgrcund for the man with the crate
>f clucks in the panel designed. Poor
said, to drpict anti-tiu't work of the
Department of Jus'icc H" denied
lie pcultrv-racket motif was inspired
>y the Schechter case, which wrecked
he N. R. A
The Poor murals are the latest of a
lumber of modernistic masterpieces
icing ins.ailed in the corridors on the
ifth floor of the Justice Building, on
he Constitution avenue side.
i
Borah, Chasing Idaho Votes,
! Keeps Campaign Plans Secret
Bj lie Associated Press.'
BOISE. Idaho. July 18.—William E
Borah. United States Senate dean, is
combing the Idaho sagebrush these
days in a single-handed drive for votes
1 he needs to send him to the National
Capital lor a sixth term.
He is shaking—by the hundreds—the
gnarled hands of men and women
i who have turned the desert wastes into
1 verdant oases; he is mingling with
! the farmers; posing for picture* with
I their sons and daughters, and chat
: ting wrlth the people on what they
i think are the issues.
But he is delaying announcement of
his actual campaign plans.
| Told by a friend recently that he
may injure his own cause by failing
openly to declare his willingness to
take an active part in the campaign,
he said;
"If it injures me. It cannot be
helped I want to know precisely
where I am going when I start in the
campaign."
1 "Borah will make no further an
nouncement as to his part in the
campaign until after Gov. Landon's
July 23 acceptance of the Republican
presidential nomination." said Prank
Burroughs, a friend of the Senator.
Sources close to the veteran Re
publican recalled he made a vigorous
pre-convention campaign on several
Issues.
“He feels," they said today, “that he
would be wholly ineffective in the
coming campaign unless he is in a po
sition to urge those issues in his sup
port of Gov. Landon."
Within a week he drove 200 miles
to Belleville, a little mining commu
nity in the scenic Sawtooth Moun
tains to chat with the community’s
•ank and file at the home of his friend,
former State Senator I. E. Rockwell.
Prom there he journeyed a hundred
miles ever difficult roads to mingle
with a group of picknicking cattle
breeders and their wives. Then miles
through the desert heat to dine with
members of a men’s club at Castleford.
He posed with a farm girl and her
pony, spoke briefly and opened the
meeting for questions from the floor, i
LEMKE CANDIDACY
RESPONSE CLAIMED
Pilot of Union Party Says Farley
and Hamilton Are “Whis
tling: in Dark.*’
B? tfcc- Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 18 — John Nystul.
pilot pt the Union party's venture into j
national politics, declared today there
was an “amazing response" to the
presidential candidacy of Represent- i
ative William Lemke of North Dakota,
and that campaigners were at work
In every State.
“Both Parley and Hamilton are
whistling in the dark.” Nystul said, re
ferring to the campaign managers of
the Democratic and Republican drives.
T e>mlra wVsrv woe in Phlooerr\ frvr Q
campaign conference, nodded his I
agreement.
"We're at work in every State.” said
Nystul. who has left his insurance bus
iness in Fargo. N. Dak., temporarily to ;
direct the Union party's efforts. “In j
m06t States we have to get on by peti
tion, and we have petitions in circula
tion.
"In some others we may use the
names of parties already established.
Those things are being decided. fIn a
few our name has been pre-empted,
but we'll get on regardless.”
Lemke said his party, founded with
the blessing of Father Charles E.
Coughlin, leader of the Social Justice
group, would support all Congressmen
who voted for the Frazier-Lemke mort
gage refinancing bill in the House.
derful costume and by tuning his or
atory to concert pitch.
The major charge against him was
that he was a puppet of the “ma
chine,” that he represented the "in
terests.” and that he was rich. He de
nied there was any such thing as a
“machine,” showed where he had op
posed the Duke Power Co. more times
man uui, aim, as iui ins weau.ii, uiat
charge isn’t true. As one of the most
formidable attorneys In the State, he
has made considerable money, but
it is & fact that he has spent most of
it fiancing Democratic campaigns over
the last quarter of a century, and has
given the rest away.
Recently, when he was out of town,
this sign appeared on his office door:
“This is not the relief office. If
you need help, go around the corner
to the W. P. A."
That was the idea of a junior law
partner. On Mr. Hoey’s return, he
snatched the sign down, and continued
to compete with Federal relief.
On the Sunday morning that the
returns came in, showing he had won
the nomination, he taught his Sunday
school class aa usual., It is the largest
ip the State lAd he iplssed it but once
during the campaign, He's a staunch
Methodist. -1
(Coprrisht. 1038. by tbs North Americas
Holly wood Fans
Cheer Stars at
__
Comedians and Leading
Men Play Hilariously
at Charity Event.
Bj the Associated Preaa.
LOS ANGELES, July 18—Seven
teen thousand fans howled themselves
hoarse and the game of base ball took
an awful beating today when Holly- j
wood movie stars staged their annual ,
diamond charity game.
Lined up as the comedians and the
leading men, the game started off
with a riot when the fun-makers
stormed into the park on wheel chairs,
crutches, wheelbarrows and a police
patrol wagon.
The heroes, all dark and handsome,
put Walter Abel on the mound to
start. By the end of the second in
ning, one hour later, the comedians
had used un four Ditchers and were 1
still going strong.
Jack Benny, with a cigar in his i
mouth, managed to reach first base ;
on a walk. There Georgie Jessel and ‘
Benny Fields served him with beer ,
and sandwiches—and Benny was al
most lapped on a race around the '
bases when Vic Orsatti slammed a
home run inside the park.
Accompanied by a caddy, Buster
Ke&ten walked to the plate, selected
a club the size of a young oak tree
and thrilled the customers by dump
ing down a perfect bunt.
The entire comedian team suddenly
sprawled out on the ground after ,
its outfielder. Lucien Littlefield,
caught a long fly with ease. A mo
ment later the comedy team of .
Mitchell and Durant, after turning i
respective body flips over a grounder, j
lit into each other in one of their
famous “fights.” ]
Director Mervin Leroy, Andy De- j
vine and Harry Ruby were the first
pitchers for the comedians. I
Unverified reports had the come
dians ahead in the trivial matter of
scoring runs.
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CONCERTS ANNOUNCED
Frank T. Gartside, acting superin
tendent of National Capital park*,
yesterday announced that the follow
ing band concerts will be given at
the District of Columbia World War
Memorial In West Potomac Park this
week:
Monday. United States Army Band;
Tuesday. United States Navy Band:
Wednesday, Washington Gas Ufcht i
Employes’ Band, and Thursday, i
United 8tote* Marine Band. The
eoncerto will be given from 7:30^ to :
• pa. i
—
“Miss America'
Of 1935 Marries
Her First Bean
BrnriettaLearprOncp
in Dispute Over
Auftp Statue.
!
HENRIETTA LEAVER.
B'' the Associated Press.
MCKEESPORT. Pa . July 18 — Hen
rietta Leaver, “Miss America” of 1935,
vho objected strenuously when a
iculptor produced a nude statue of her
ast Winter, has married her girlhood
jlaymate and gone to Oklahoma to
ive
Mrs. Cecelia Leaver, mother of the
slim beauty, disclosed the romance |
oday, saying her daughter was mar- j
•ied May 28 to her "first and only j
3eau,” Johnny Mustacchio, at Wells
jurg. W. Va.
"She was sick of notoriety. Johnny j
»as going to Oklahoma to find a job. I
She couldn't bear to see him go alone,” 1
ixplained the mother.
Miss Leaver professed great indig- :
lation during the Winter, when i
Prank Vittor. New York sculptor, ex- j (
libited a nude, life-size statue of the
Ulantic City beauty pageant winner.
She protested that she had posed \
rearing a bathing suit, and for a time ■
he statue was withheld from public
dew. i
Previously she had turned down j i
itage offers because she didn't want 1 ,
,o bare her legs, but she later did ap- j
jear on Pittsburgh stages.
Mustacchio, 24. and Miss Leaver j
tad been chums since childhood.
COLOMBIA QUAKE TOLL (
lb tbllMAItU A I IUU ,
)y the Associated Press.
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador. July 18.—
Reports received here tonight said
nore than 100 persons were estimated
jnofflclally to have perished in yester
iay's earthquake at Tuquerres, Co
ombia.
Survivors fleeing from the quake
irea were said to have found their
nay impeded in many places by enor
noiuf cracks. *
A dispatch from Quito. Ecuador,
itated strong shocks were felt at Tul
•an and San Gabriel, and that many
esldents fled into the countryside.
The astronomical observatory at
Bogota was reported to be investi
tating the cause ot the quakes. i