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The Washington times., 1931-08-01
Railroad Boards

Railroad Boards
Viewpoint
If conditions necessitate, it
favors an increase in freight
rates; but it objects to the
suggestion that wages should
also be reduced.
1t insists that the railroad
workers, even now, are not paid
proportionately with other
workers in other industries re-
quiring no more skill: The i'm
plication is that any attempt
to cut wages will be fought
and a railroad strike at this
juncture is the last thing We
want.
When McAdoo took over the
management of the roads dur
ing the war he found the wages
ridiculously low and raised
them all along the line. That
invited general abuse; but had
he been nominated for Presi-
dent in 1924, the railroads
9 would not have wanted to meet
him upon that issue. He vas
loaded. '
The Washington times., 1931-08-01
Attempt to Cut Wages
Will Be Fought

Meanwhile the United States
Steel Corporation has reduced
dividends. 1t has not reduced
the salaries of the officers.
Even though it had reduced
these salaries, it could not cut
the wages of the workers with
out inviting criticism. Too
many millions of dollars in
bonuses to the officials have
been granted in the not remote
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
STEEL PRICES
 TAKE TUMBLE,
 TRADING TODAY
U. s. Drops Many Dollars as Does Bethlehem
 General Market Losses

NEW YORK, July 29.-U. s. Steel common dropped $512 ito $87 25 at the opening of the Stock Market this forenoon, reflecting the re- duction in the annual dividend rate of $4 from $7 announced after the close of the Stock Market yes terday afternoon.
 The market was driven to the lowest levels since the middle of June by the adverse dividend and earnings announcements by the largest steel makers.
 Nickel Plate dropped more than 9 points
 Auburn also took a big drop.
 American Telephone, American Can, Allied Chemical, Eastman, New York Central, Westinghouse, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and General Electric declined from to 6 points. International Tele- phone lost points.
 U. s. Steel lost $2 more before the Exchange closed and Bethle-- hem Steel tumbled more than $5.
 General market losses were from l to 10 points.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
SHOT DOWN ON STREET;MAKES
 DYING APPEAL
Man Charged with Atten- tions to Anoth CTS
 Wife Is Killed

SEATTLE, July 29.--Louis Todd, aged 55 years, Kirkland seed store operator. was fatally shot by H. H. Loy, Kirkland jeweler, yesterday, after Loy accused Todd of being too friendly with Mrs. Loy.
 Todd died three hours after he was shot.
 As passerbys on the street where the shooting occurred went to his assistance, Todd said:
 You fellows help the poor devil who shot me. He didn't know what he was doing. My conscience is clear. The woman is all right"
 Loy said he was sorry the gun damned as he shot too low and if he had shot higher he would have killed him. This was said before Loy was told Todd was dead.
 Todd leaves a widow and three children.
 Loy has wife and two chill dren
 Loy is held in The county jail here.
 A deputy sheriff said Loy took him to see todd several days ago and told Todd ne wo.id kill him unless he stayed away from Mrs. Loy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
.CE N. ATTERBURY' LOSES LIQUORS
 AT KETCHIKAN| |
Famous Rail Executive Loses Tn Bout with
 Bone Dry Law

That Gen. w. w. Atterbury, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad System and former Re- publican National Committeeman for Pennsylvania, ran afoul of the Alaska Bone Dry Law in Ketchi- kan and came off second best, losing the store of alcoholic li- quors from his private yacht. on which he is cruising Alaska wa ters, was revealed here today in private correspondence received from Ketchikan.
 United States Customs officers there seized the store, including a small amount of rye whispey and champagne, and destroyed it
 Under Federal statutes vessels operating even in American waters are permitted certain amount of liquor for ships use. Gen. At terbury also had a permit from Amos Woodcock, Federal Prohibi- tion Director and in charge of na- tional forces of the Prohibition Unit of the Department of Jus tice, to carry it aboard his yacht
 But this permit, apparently, was without value in Alaska. It runs contrary to the Alaska Bone Dry Law which prohibits possession in any form. There was noth- ing but for our agents to do but make the seizure under the cir cumstances,' said M. s. Whittier, Assistant Collector of Customs to- day in confirming the unofficial reports of the affair. He said he did not know the exact amount of liquor seized as no detailed re- port had yet been received.
 An unofficial private report re- ceived here Sunday from reliable sources said there were 13 quarts of champagne, some rye, bourbon and other whiskies and sherry wine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
ON NEW HOVE ON
 INDEPENDENCE
Drop Slogan for Quick Change Accept Modi-
 fication Hints
By E. w. HOSKINS

MANILA, 5uly 29- Apparently convinced that the future status of the Philippines is to be definitely decided by the next congress, the Filipino political leaders and the nationalistic press have adopted a radical different course in their campaign for independence
 Their new program calls for in- dependence plus. It was launched some weeks ago when visits of Con- gressional parties to the islands created the impression that the time was rapidly approaching when the United States would grant the islands not necessarily immediate independence, but independence at some specified date.
 The old cry for immediate. com plete and absolute independence" has been dropped with an indi- rect admission that it was merely an opening price.
 Make Threefold Bid
 Now the Filipinos are quoting the price they really hope to get. They admit that they never wanted i'm mediate, complete and absolute in- dependence in the literal sense of the slogan, but rather something close to ideal independence"
 This ideal independence in- wolves three things: d) Complete deliverance from American political control CD Retention of the duty free American market for Philip pine products. (3) Retention of American military protection.
 If the new program is carried through to successful conclusion, it will accomplish all of the first point and fair portion of the second.
 The third would be met by join ing the League of Nations. While not regarding it as being as good as American protection, the Fili- pinos feel that in these days of Kellogg -Briand pacts membership in the League would sufficiently protect their territorial integrity
 Immediate, complete and abso- lute' are omitted from the inde- pendence slogan, and "early inde- pendence" and "a period of transi- ton" are substituted.
 Want Free Trade
 But the high point of the scheme is the move to obtain a tariff con- cession which will enable Philippine goods to continue to enter the American market for some years to come Thirty years is the period most generally spoken of. This
 tC'ontimiel on Page Three)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
2 PROSPECTORS WILL GET FOOD
 BY AIR ROUTE
Pilot Howard to Drop Sup plies for Dawson
 and Companion

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 29.- Supplies for Wendell Dawson and companion, prospecting at the headwaters of the Chickanin and Leduc Rivers, will be dropped from an airplane.
 Pilot Ray Howard will make his first trip with supplies today.
 The region has heretofore been considered inaccessible because of the inability to pack supplies into it.
 Pilot Howard is to drop two bags, 150 pounds, each seperated in inner bags, containing food and five inches of ground cork to keep them afloat should they drop into water.
 The flight will take one hour.
 Pilot Howard will drop two bags each month until September when the men will return here. They left by boat a month ago.
 The region is believed to be high ly mineralized
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
Lindbergh's Modern Plume
 Makes Orient Flight Safe
 Compared to 1927 Triumph


 NEW YORK, Suiy 2o.-There is less peril in Colonel Lindbergh's s Orient adventure than confronted him when, in 1927, he conquered the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis.
 With motor nearly three times as powerful and plane embody- ing developments of four years of aviation progress, today's flight appears far less hazardous than his first ocean crossing.
 Lindbergh's new low wing mono plane has speed of 220 miles an hour, but since he has equipped it with pontoons it can make only ITS miles an hour on the ocean trip.
 Landing fields are few across the North Pacific route. The pontoons will enable the plane to land and take-off on water, and will con- tain additional gasoline tanks.
 The plane has wing span of AZ feet, 10 inches with a length of 27 feet, 6 inches. Its fuselage and the cantilever wing are of wood construction.
 A year ago, with the colonel at the controls, it spanned the conti- nent in IA hours anu 45 minutes, a record later broken by Capt. Frank M. Hawks Its retractable landing gear, only recently re- placed by pontoons, made speed e. about 220 miles per hour pos sible. It was an idea credited largely to Lindbergh.
 At the time of the transconti- mental flight the plane had 425 horsepower Wask engine, which has been replaced by 500 horse
 The low wing monoplane is fully streamlined in design and the en- zine is housed in a cowling that minimizes air resistance.
 He bought the ship in January, 1880, after testing 1t in California The cost was $17,825.
 The license number obtained for it was NR-211. That of the Spirit of St. Louis was xNR-211.
 More Costly Ship
 The price was in excess of that of the transatlantic plane which now reposes in the Smithsonian institution at Washington.
 The Spirit of St. Louis ex- elusive of motor and instruments, cost $6,000, while the 225 horse power Wright Whirlwind J-5 radial air-cooled nine-cylinder motor and the instruments brought the total cost to about $13,000
 The Spirit of St. Louis was a stock model Ryan monoplane with a wing spread of AS feet and fuselage 27 feet three inches long The cockpit was glass enclosed and Lindbergh saw through peri scope.
 But he used equipment which was the very latest in 1927. There were the earth inductor compass. tachometer, bank and turn indi- cator, air speed indicator. magnetic compass, speed and drift indicator, altimeter and oil gauges.
 Carrying no navigator and with out a sextant, Lindbergh in his Atlantic flight arrived over Ireland within three miles of the point at which he aimed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
USUAL ACREAGE vOIDS BENEFITS
 OF BOARD BUYS
Stabilization of Wheat Hits Snag Government
 Is Jeopardized
Associated Press Photo
By FRANK I. WELLER

Associated Press Farm Editor)
 WASHINGTON, D. C., July 29.- The farm boards refusal to lock up stabilization wheat is capable of the interpretation that the farmers failure to reduce acreage has jeopardized the government position.
 It is recalled by veteran ana lysts that in absorbing 100000 900 bushels of wheat the board operated on the theory that acre. age adjustment would so cut pro- duction that storage stocks could be moved back into trade chan nels without undue loss to the stabilization corporation.
 Farmers were told that in ab- sorbing the surplus and keeping domestic markets out of the mo- rass into which foreign markets had fallen, the board was making it possible for them to adjust production to consumption in a 4d14 " PdllllCoo HJlONtoo.
 New Surplus Stimulated
 Until May of this year, when stabilization had run to the end set for it, domestic prices were as much above the world price as they ordinarily are below it.
 In the meantime there was no perceptible reduction in planting outside the spring wheat belt and the new surplus of wheat acted to erase the advantageous position expected as the result of stabili- zation.
 Now, with the country produc- ing virtually as much wheat as ever, the farm board finds itself holding huge stocks on which stor- age charges are accommodating and for which the anticipated outlet failed to materialize.
 Months ago it warned that sta- bilization could not be continued in the face of repeated overpro- duction. Essentially it meant that the government could not continue to buy and hold wheat that mo- body wanted.
 AS it's present policy unfolds, stabilization wheat may not ne- cessarily be sold while the new crop is coming to market, nor is the door arbitrarily closed to a profitable sale any time one can be made without injuring prices.
 Corporation Limits Sales
 To those who have asked that the board set a definite period over which government wheat will not be sold in competition with farm wheat, the answer was made that until July 1, 1932, the grain stabilization corporation would
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, July 29.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14A, American Can 94, Anaconda Copper 24A, Beth lehem Steel 357s, Fox Films 15as General Motors 36M, International Harvester 405s, Kennecott ITS, Checker Cab g, T, 71z, Curtiss- Wright 3, Packard Motors ', Stan dard Brands 17M, Standard Oil of California 36, Standard Oil of New Jersey 37, Trans-America 7A United Aircraft 261s, U. s. Steel 84M. t
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
HAZARDOUS COUNTRY
 AHEAD OF LINDBERGHS

WINNIPEG, July 29.-A thousand miles of the most hazardous coun- try they could fly over without an accompanying protective plane" is the way Canadian airmen de- scribed Lindberghs route across Canada.
 Airmen familiar with Hudson Bay, Churchill, Baker Lake and the Aklavik route say 1t is not as safe as via Sioux, Lookout, The Pas and down the Mackenzie to Aklavik. It is the same distance and natural seaplane route, they say, as the route is dotted with lakes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
NO REPORT OF
 GRAF ZEPPELIN

DRICHSHAFEN, Germany July 29.-Officials of the Zeppelin Works here are not alarmed be- cause no word has been received from the Graf Zeppelin since the rendezvous Monday night with the Russian icebreaker Malign in Franz Josef Land.
 The Graf is possible in the Zone of Silence" of the Arctic and has probably flown over Wiese and Kamenev Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
AMY JOHNSON
 SPEEDS ALONG

MOSCOW. Juiy 29.--Amy John son, British ayiatrix, and her com- panion, J. Humphrey, bound from London. to Toyko, took off this morning and expects to spend to- night at Sverdlovsk, a flight leg of 1000 miles. The stop here was the fourth since leaving England.
 MOSCOW, July 29.-Amy John son landed at Kazan late this afternoon and will remain over night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
Wild Life Delegation
 Is Meeting Trappers

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 2s- Senator Norbeck, Paul Reding- ton and other members of the wild life delegation, have arrived here and are holding a meeting here today with the trappers rela- tive to game laws. The party will then proceed to Fairbanks
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
JONES
 INSTALL MOTOR

SEATTLE. July 29.-Reg. L. Rob- bins and H. s. Jones are install ing a 425 horsepower motor in the plane Fort Worth and will finish the work tomorrow. They expect t chop before Sunday on a non- stop flight from Seattle to Tokyo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
Pilot Blunt WW
 Fly Scarlet Feuer
 Serum to Nushagak

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 29. Pilot Harry Blunt will carry scarlet fever serum to Dilling- ham to curb the new outbreak among residents of Nushagak who are mostly natives.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
Former British Prime
 Minister Operated Upon

LONDON, July 29.-David Lloyd George, former British Prime Min ister, was operated upon today for kidney ailmsnt.. This after noon his condition was reported satisfactory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
JUNIOR ELKS PLAY
 JUNIOR MOOSE TOMORROW

Tomorrow evening at 6:3O O. clock, the Junior Elk and the Ju- nior Moose baseball teams will play at Recreation Park The teams are evenly matched, and a good contest is expected.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
Fishermen on Cook
 Inlet Ask Extension

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 29. Cook Inlet fishermen are apply ing to the Bureau of Fisheries to extend the season week because of storms which curtailed the catch,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
STOP IS MADE


 NORTH BEACH, N. Y, July 20. Defects in the radio caused the Lindberghs to stop here yesterday enroute from Washington to North Haven, Maine, from where they will start on the flight to Tokyo. Japan
 The Lindberghs landed in a heavy rain.
 Last night, Col. Lindbergh said he might fly today or Thursday it all depending on whether he got his radio working.
 Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., has been taken to the Morrow home at North Haven, Maine, by nurse and will bid goodbye to his parents there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
F OUR PLIERS HOPPING OVER
 THE ATLANTIC
Boardman, Polando, Pang- horn, Herndon We'll on
 Way Across Ocean

BULLETIN-NEW YORK, July 29.-The office of Hern- don and Pangbcrn received message from M0yle Grove, Wales, saying they crossed the Atlantic safely and to in- form their families. The code address indicated authentic ity.
 NEW YORK, July 29.-There
 has been no report from either
 pair of fliers at 2:30 o'clock
 this afternoon, 8 hours after
 their departure.
 NEW YORK, July 29. = Russell Boardman and John Polando, who hopped off yesterday morning for Istanbul. Turkey. and Clyde Pang- horn and Hugh Herndon. who hopped off shortly afterward on an attempt to lower the world flight record of Post and Gatty, are believed to be safe in clear and calm weather over the At lantic Ocean.
 It is believed their planes were sighted within 40 minutes of each other over southeast Newfoundland lfte yesterday,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29
RADIO DEFECTS
 CAUSES PLIERS
 TO COME DOWN
Colonel and Wife Land in Ne W York Sc ection
 During Rain Storm
EXPERT MAKES TEST:
 FLIGHT IS RESUMED
Farewells Will Be Made at North Haven, Maine,
 then Off to Japan

B U l. l. E T I N-NORTH HAVEN, Maine, July 29.- The Lindberghs arrived here late this a fternoon from North Beach, N. Y. and were welcomed by the M orrow family and Lindbergh, Jr.
 NEW YORK, July 29.-The Lind berghs took off at 12:05 o'clock this afternoon for North Haven. Maine.
 RADIO TEST
 NEW YORK, July %. = Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife are to make final test flight with radio expert before leaving North Beach for North Haven. Maine, to say farewells to the family, They then plan to hop from North Haven to Ottawa.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-29

tc'ontinuel on Page Three)
The Washington times., 1931-04-08
OIL GROUP ASKS
TRADE PROBE

The Pennsylvania Grade Crude
Oil Association has asked the
Federal Trade Commission issue
complaints against certain major
oil companies, alleging these COM
panies are depriving independent
oil producers, refiners and mer-
keterS of retail outlets through
exclusive selling agreements with
independent retail gasoline sta
tions, it has been announced by
Rodney j. Alexander, secretary.
1t is alleged in the association
application that offers of larger
discounts, use of misrepresenta-
ton, duress and coercion are
among the means used to induce
dealers to agree not to handle
products competitive with those
of the companies making the con-
tracts.
The proposed respondents are
charged in the application with
violating section 3 of the Cloyton
Act and Section 5 of the Federal
Trade Commission Act, and the
Sherman Act.
The Washington times., 1931-04-08
B | c MUN|C|PA Al
BOND ISSUES

Due to the flotation Of New
York city's 100000, 900 loan and
$66, 100000 Port of New York
Authority Holland Tunnel and
Inland Terminal bonds, an un-
usually large total of State and
municipal financing is reported
for the month of March.
AS estimated by the Daily
Bond Buyer, of New York, flota-
tions during the past month ag-
gregated $275, ,087,936 This large
figure is in sharp contrast with
the two preceding months, when
new issues amounted to $119, $685.
900 (in February and $40, 9,977,-
900 Gin january.
Only twice before in the history
of domestic municipal finance has
the March, 1881, total been ex-
ceeded. In December, 1929, and
in June, 1924, new loans aggre-
gated slightly in excess Of $685.
100000.
The Washington times., 1931-04-08
BANKING
B|LES|GNED

ALBANY. April S.-Governor
Roosevelt has signed the House
bill, introduced by Assemblyman
Sargent, amending the banking
law in relation to savings banks,
whereby savings bank officials
are not held liable for investing
in bonds named in last legal list,
unless the bank shall have been
notified by the superintendent of
banks that in his judgment such
bonds do not conform or have
ceased to conform to the pro-
vision Of the law.
Investments in bonds and
mortgages shall not exceed 10
per cent of the total assets of
the savings bank. compared with
IS per cent previously provided.
Law is further amended to in
clude a section stating that a
savings bank need not recognize
a mere notice of an adverse claim
against a deposit on its books Un-
less accompanied by court order,
or unless depositor against whom
claim is made furnishes indem.
MITIGATION to bank against loss or
damage.
The Washington times., 1931-04-08
MARCH OUTPUT.
Of STEEL Up

Operations of the steel indus
try, for the third successive
month, registered an increase
during March, according to the
monthly survey made by the
American Iron and Steel InSti-
tute.
Ingot production last month
a m ounted to 3,023, ,440 tons
against 2,527,319 tons in Febru-
ary and 2,493, ,206 tons in Janu-
ary. The total for March is the
largest since August. 1880, how
ever, when 4,299,905 tons were
produced, this years total shows
a drop of 80 per cent.
The daily average output for
March was 1926 tons, against
a daily average of 1O5,3o5 tons
in February, 91,971 tons in jan
uary and 1922 tons in Decem-
ber.
For the three months ended
March 81, production amounted
to 8,033,964 tons, against 12,174,
322 tons in the first quarter of
1890, a drop of 4,140,358 tons or
"a per cent.
The Washington times., 1931-04-08
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
SALES

Washington Railway 4s 81,
$1,O0o@891s, $1,O0o@89h8.
Capital Traction, lO@34h, 10
@34A, 10@34.
Potomac Electric Power 512s
pfd, 5@110A.
Washington Railway pfd., 100
9s1a, 5@98h. 2O@9S1a, 1O@9s12,
1O@981a, 10@9812. 50@982.
Union Trust, 10Q208.
Real Estate Mtge. and ms. pfd.,
1OO@4B.
Peoples Drug pfd, 6@1O3, 20
1882, 4O@10212.
Carpet Corporation, 25@2312,
25@23A, 25@2334, 25@2324.
After call
American Security & Trust Co..
3@345.
Federal American Co. CON-, 25
@23A.
Washington Railway As, $1,000
$685., $1,000@89H.
Norfolk & Washington Steam
boat, 10@189.
washington Railway As 81,
81, 1,OOO@S9b, $1,000@89b.
Potomac Electric Power 51as,
pfd., 1@110. 49,.
washington Gas IS '36 B, $10o
@1O434.
Washington Railway pfd., TOO
9812.
Carpet Corp, 25@23Ts.
The Washington times., 1931-04-08
AUBURN STAGES
JUMP Of I
POINTS
Bethlehem, Allied Chemical,
and Other Stocks Gain, But
Fox Film Again Hammered
By w. S. COUSINS

NEW YORK, April 8 QN.So.-
Taking advantage of the heavy
short interest in the active stocks,
the bulls pushed prices Of their
favorities a point or two higher
in the early trading today.
Auburn Auto staged spectacu-
lar 17-point jump to 275 as the
result of the rush to buy the
small number of shares offered at
the opening. Allied c h e m C !,
Bethlehem Steel and other leaders
moved up l to 2 points.
Fox Film Hammered
The market was unsettled in
the second hour by a deluge Of
selling of Fox film, which forced
that stock down to 24l2. This
makes a loss of 9 points since
yesterday morning, when the new
financing plans were first re-
ported.
Wall Street sold on the theory
that the new banker members Of
the board would stop devidend
payments as the first step in
working out the financial prob
lens Of the company. A $55,000,-
900 note issue is due next week.
The railroad stocks were also
under pressure. New York Cen
trail dropped off fractionally to
a new low for the year at 105@,
Union Pacific lost 3A points at
1854 and Atchison was down
112 at 17912. Canadian Pacific,
Erie and Baltimore and Ohio
sold fractionally lower.
Rally Is Halted
Though the rally in the indus
trials was brough to q halt by
the weakness in the rails and
specialties, the market as a
whole was fairly steady near the
noon period.
The call loan rate returned to
IL per cent.