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Evening star., 1933-08-17
INITIATION ASKED
TO HELP FARMERS
Senator Smith Wants Action
at Once to Halt Drop
in Prices.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Immediate currency imitation to
arrest falling farm commodity prices
was advocated today by Chairman
Smith Of the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee, who said he planned to lay mis-
views before President Roosevelt later
in the day.
Senator George, Democrat, OF
Georgia, third ranking member Of the
Finance Committee. who also is work
ing to boost farm prices, will accompany
the South Carolina Democrat to the
White House
Chairman Jones OF the House Agri-
culture Committee, likewise has been
consulted on means of boosting farm
prices and may go with the Senators.
Two Silent on Views.
Neither he nor George. however,
would indicate their definite proposals
fer bringing this about nor would they
express their views on the imitation
proposal
Il don't see any chance of general
recovery unless we have imitation to re-
lieve the situation" Smith told news
paper men. Commodity prices are the
basis on which all those measures are
predlcated and they must be sustained"
He proposed that the Government is
sue misunderstanding certificates to
cover part Of the $4,000 10000 provided
for public works
Imitation only Chance"
"In my opinion" he said. the only
chance is imitation. The President has
that power, which is given him under
the recovery act"
Smith said the tremendous drop" in
cotton prices the last two or three days
actually brought 1t lower than it was be-
fore the recovery measures began to
operate because of a disproportionate
increase in prices Of manufactured
articles He cited, also, falling wheat
and cattle prices and characterized the
situation "a menace to the whole pro-
gram OF the administration.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
was s4,412,ooo, the auditor

corporation was $4,412, 900, the auditor
testified.
It was brought out in the testimony
that these two dairies distribute from
the same pasteurizing plant, but have
duplication of milk routes. and that
their books show delivery cost of ap-
proximately 3.6 cents per bottle.
Evidence Of price discrimination
among customers was revealed by Simp-
son, who testified that different prices
are charged to various customers.
Among the notable cases of discrimi-
nation reported was former Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon paying 13 cents
q quart for four bottles Of milk daily, as
compared with IL cents q quart charged
to Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace for
three quarts.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
ECUADOR PRESIDENT
REFUSES TO RESIGN
Gives Answer to Congressional
Committee-Legislators Will
Continue in Session.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
QUITO Ecuador, August 17.-Con-
gress continued in session last night
after hearing a message from President
Juan D. Martinez Mera in which he
refused to resign. The Executive was
visited by a commission which asked
him to let the popular will rule "in the
name of democracy"
Congress approved the sending Of the
commission by vote Of AZ tc &c. Later
it passed a non-confldence vote in the
cabinet. Because 1t supported the
Presidents attitude a number of gov
ernment supporters did not attend the
session.
The Legislature and the presidential
palace were guarded by soldiers. A
crowd attempted to organize demonstra-
tions. but police dispersed them. Nor
NAL conditions were reported elsewhere
in the country.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
MEDIATORS SEEKING
SOLUTION OF STRIKES
IN MANY OCCUPATIONS
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denied as misleading and erroneous
any statement that I'VE are denying.
to labor a satisfactory return" The,
Connecticut Dress Manufacturers As
sociation. composed largely of operators
whose plants work for jcbbers on
contract basis, blamed the !obbers. A
representative Of the association said
that until jobbers pay contractors more,
contractors cannot pay workmen more.
Joseph M Tone labor comm ;ssioner
of Connecticut. said ne hoped for com
plete determination" of the "sweatshop
evil"
Other strikes were in progress in
several localities The National Labor
Board at Washington gave attention
yesterday to a shirt strike in Pottsville.
Pa a motion picture strike in Holly
wood and a labor dispute affecting en-
ployes on the New Orleans Bridge.
Closed Shop Demand Rejected.
Thirty-five silk dress manufacturers
and contractors in st. Louis addressed
an open letter yesterday to striking
employees, saying they would not accede
to "a demand for closed shop" The
strikers were invited to return to work
on an open shop basis.
Eighteen men we're discharged from
work on the Boulder Dam project yes
terday after an attempt by agitators to
precipitate strike.
Agitation began in the mess hall OF
the Six Co.'S, Inc, general contractors
on the project, and circulars were dis
tributed calling for an immediate walk
out, demanding a 6-hour day, no re-
duction in pay and a reduction Of so
nor rent in h0uSa rent
Leonard Blood, deputy Federal State
labor commissioner, said the agitators
used such elusive language that a
free-for-au @ght ensued. One worker
and a special agent for the Six Cos
were injured slightly.
The 18 men discharged were said by
their employers to have been implicated
in distributing propaganda.
Half Of the 5000 cigar workers in
the Tampa tobacco industry. who left
their benches a week ago, were back at
wers yesterday under an N. r. A. code
Evening star., 1933-08-17

Re.l
leaders had expressed firm disapprov-
of the loan
Reads From Chronology.
The Senator, reading from a E.
pared chronology OF events in which l.
took prominent part during the ban.
crisis, described meeting Of r. F.. c.
othcials with Mr.. Hoover, Ogden (
Mills. Secretary of the Treasury. an
Senators CouzenS and Arthur H. Van
denberg of Michigan, at which the loan
was discussed
he SAID the application was for S45,-
100000, and the R. F. C. had scaled
assets offered as valued at S37, 700 900
He declared the deposit liability of the
Union Guardian Trust Co., for which
the loan was sought, was S20, 100000.
The law says very explicitly that
every r. F. c. loan must have full and
adequate security" he said Every
Federal official having to do with thl
Detroit banking situation, from the
President down, were of the opinion
that the security offered by representa-
tives of the Union Guardian was ade
quate only for loan up to S37 500, 900
The law prohibited loaning more"
The Senator, discussing testimony CT
previous witness that Alfred P Lev
burn. then chief bank examiner for tn
seventh Federal Reserve district. had
said "CouzenS alone is opposing the
loan" branded the statement IAN abso-
lutte untruth." He said he was by no
means alone in the refusal
"Mr. Miller (Charles A. Miller. then
chairman of the r. F. c. at a session
at the White House at which I wa
present denounced the loan to Presiden.
Hoover on other grounds" he said.
Senator Reads Memo.
Miller, the Senator testified, charac-
terized the proposed loan as Immoral
in that the Guardian group was offer
ing the assets of its stronger units to
get money to bolster its weaker banks"
The Senator read a memo which he
said Secretary Mills furnished at a
White House conference, listing the
amount of loan sought for the Union
Guardian Trust Co.. the security Of
fered, and said the plan contemplated
removal of undesirable assets from the
banks, as well as getting out of the
banking business and operating solely
as trust company
Couzens said he offered no objection
to the loan of 37700. 900, and declared
that surely that amount would have
been sufficient"
"I ask you if $37,7OO, 900 was not
enough to liquidate a deposit liability
of s20.500 000?" He said. lit &c al
legged in testimony that the trust COM
pany was forced to close because it
could not get enough money to pay
of its depositors. I never objected to
the $37,700,o0o loan."
Evening star., 1933-08-17
Farley, Lying in Bed
Here, Asks Colorado
To Vote for Repeal
Glad TelevisiOn Is Absent
As Pajama.Clad Fig
ure Phones State.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Postmaster General Farley today de-
scribed "a new experience" to his press
conference-lying in bed in green pa
jamas last night at 1l30, making
l0-minute speech on prohibition repeal
to the Colorado Legislature in banquet
session.
Times are changing" Farley COM
mented. AN end like that to a per-
feet day! Wonder if I didn't break
some code?"
1t was only $50 out in Denver when
the Postmaster Generals speech arrived
by phone and was ampiihed. so the
diners probably didn't visualize Big
Jim" as he'd have appeared by tele-
vision
But they must have enjoyed the
added flip of informality his speech
took on under the circumstances.
Il have addressed many banQuets,
but this is the first one 1 have not
been given anything to eat" he told
them. adding they probably thought he
was 80 filled with political pork and
patronage plurns" it wasn't necessary
TO ask him to eat.
He told Coloradoans he confidently
expected them to put over repeal on
their September 5 election. BY the end
of August, he prophesied, "a States rep
resenting more than half the popula-
ton, would be in the repeal column
Repeal Of the eighteenth amendment
is linked inseparably with the Presi-
dents industrial recovery program.
said Farley.
The new taxes necessary to amortlze
public works and unemployment. he
said, depended upon revenues from a
regulated and controlled liquor traffic"
going into Federal and State treasures
instead of being paid out in tribute
to racketeers'
In States where repeal elections are
pending, Farley will continue to make
addresses.
He was scheduled to leave here to-
cav for New York to dedicate the new
Albany post Office.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
IN DEATH OF -FOUR
Akron Attorney Ordered Held
Without Bond in Poison
Murders.
Ey the Associated Press.

BENTON, Ark, August 17.-Mark H
Shank, 41-year-old Akron. Ohio, attor-
ney, entered formal plea of not guilty
to the poison murders of Alvin Colley,
Colleys wife and two young sons before
Justice OF the Peace j. P. Carter here
today. He will be returned to Hot
Springs for safe keeping.
He waived preliminary hearing and
was ordered held without bond for the
xrand Jury, which meets September 4.
: The information filed by Prosecuting
Attorney Millar Halbert included the
murders of all four persons. Cclley, his
wife, Ethel, and the sons. Clement, II.
and Claren, Z. Separate indictments IN
each may be returned by the grand jury,
Halbert said.
Shank was brought here under heavy
guard from Hot Springs. A guard stood
outside the building where the Justices
Office is located and prevented all spec
tators from entering.
Shank maintained his usual calm cur
ing the ride from Hot Springs and
when he was arraigned He still was
nursing cuts and bruises which he re-
ceived in his flight through the woods
and when he leaped from moving
automobile with Colley dead at the
wheel. Shank has not employed an at
tOrney.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
QUIZ IN POISONING ORDERED
Lawyer Said to Have Confessed Killings
to Forestall Blackmail Threats.

BY the Associated PreSS
HOT SPRINGS, Ark, August IL
Mark H Shank, 41-year-old Akron,
Ohio, lawyer, who purportedly confessed
he poisoned Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Colley
and their two children to forestall
threats of blackmail and prosecution
over stolen legal papers, was ordered to
Benton today for preliminary hearing.
Herbert Akers, chief Of Hot Springs
detectives, said Shank will be returned
here for safe keeping after the hearing.
Colley was an investigator for Shank,
Akers said the attorney told him. and
was wanted in Ohio for theft of some
papers from the county prosecutors
Office at Wooster which were to be used
against one of Shank's clients.
A woman friend Of Colley's, Shank
said, had demanded s4o0 under threat
of duplicating him in theft of the
papers. Akers said Shank pleaded in
nocence in the theft but told him he
safety was to poison Colley.
Child Asks About Mother.
While on a picnic Tuesday Mr. and
Mrs Colley and the tWo children died
shortly after drinking grape juice. A
third child, Clyde, 3 years old, was
taken to a hospital at Malvern and
saved.
: Shank fed into the woods. but was
captured by posse short time later,
-Akers said he confessed after ques-
tioning.
{ At the Malvern Hospital, where little
Clyde Colley was recovering, he piled
attendants with questions about his
mother He said she was very sick"
the last time he saw her.
Blond and blue-eyed, the child today
was dressed in clothing brought him
by well-wishers. The superintendent of
the hospital said a dozen requests for
his adoption had been received. The
bodies of his parents and brothers are
IN the morgue at Malvern.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
JOB AND PAY GAIN
SHOWN BY FIGURES
Secretary Perkins Announces
100000 Returned to
Work in July.
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reported by the Bureau of Statistics
between June and July, represents an
estimated increase of S7,500,000 paid in
weekly wages to factory workers in July
over the weekly earnings of June.
Roosevelt Is Gratified.
Commenting on the bureaus indices
shown him yesterday, President Roose-
welt said the report was gratifying and
indicated better times are here.
The return to employment Of some
100000 workers in factories represents
the increase of To per cent in employ
ment as reported to the secretary by
her statisticians. The combined gains
in employment during the last four
months. measured by the changes in the
bureaus indices. represents an increase
in employment of 22l per cent between
March and July. which. in actual fig
ures the Secretary said. indicates the
unemployment of 100000 wage earn
ers in the manufacturing industries OF
the country over that period.
The March indices due to the un-
usual condition caused by the bank
holiday in the early part of that month
are the lowest points recorded in the
bureaus employment and pay roll tab
ulations. The bureaus tabulation OF
l6 n-manufacturing industries over
the March-July period indicates ap-
proximately 100000 more workers in
July than in March, Secretary Perkins
declared. pointing out that these do
not include figures ON railroads or agrl-
cultural employment.
Changes Are Seasonal.
She further pointed out that the
changes reported in employment and
paw rolls IN the nom manufacturing in
dustries were, to a large extent, sea :
sonal. The retail trade group, which
normally shows some recession during
the Summer months. reported de-
crease of AZ per cent in July. which
is only slightly less than the average
decline shown in the month OF July.
This decline would indicate, she said,
that the purchasing power OF the
country has not yet been expanded to
an extent when the usual seasonal de-
cline in employment in this industry
has been greatly diminished.
It is estimated, the Secretary said
that the combined total OF these IL
non manufacturing industries would
show practically no change in num-
ber of workers between June and July
as the decrease in employment IN the
retail trade. telephone and telegraph
dyeing and cleaning and building con-
struction industries practically offset
the increases reported in the II other
non manufacturing industries.
The State totals Of employment and
pay roll earnings Of five States and the
District Of Columbia showed decreases
in employment Locally employment
declined 25 per cent. Miss Perkins
said. A total of 622 establishments in
the District reported to the Labor De-
parment that they had 29,235 employees
on pay rolls, decline of 2.5 per cent
during the 30-day period The wage
earnings were s669210, a decline OF
81 per cent under June.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
EARLY APPOINTED

Nathaniel Early, jr., of Ruckersville,
Va, was appointed by President Roose-
welt today to be collector of internal
dleton Strother.
At the same time the President ap-
pointed j. Karl Major to be United
States district judge for the southern
district of Illinois, succeeding Judge
Louis FitzHenry, promoted to the Cir
cult Court Of Appeals Of the seventh
l8~kx4o<
Evening star., 1933-08-17
What's What
Behind News
in CaPital'
Consumers Board Gives
Gen. Johnson His
Only Laughs.
BY PAUL MALLON.

THE heavy thinkers around the N.
R. A. are trying to laugh OIL the
dramatic exit of Prof. Ogburn.
i They want to create the impress
sion that it was caused by a
petty quarrel. There was much more
behind it than that.
The truth is Ogburn's parting shot
against the Consumers Advisory Board
lodged deep in vital spot.
That board has been a private joke
among the higher-ups from the start.
The only good laughs Gen. johnson
has had in the past sir weeks came
,0hen some one mentioned that organ
isdtion
If the counsels have done anything
outstanding. it has been kept secret
even from johnson.
Since the first week. news men have
been trying to get statement OF the
boards purposes and ccomplishments-
something strong showing action. Each
week they are told that perhaps next
Evening star., 1933-08-17

ern and rural areas, who handle both
classes of material
Father Francis ]. Haas OF the Labor
Advisory Board asked for fiat $l6 a
week minimum for 80 hours and for
elimination Of special dif1erential classes
by population.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
JAIL FUGlTIVES SHOT

GUANTANAMO, Cuba, August II H)
-Four prisoners and severatl guards
were wounded in q prison break here to-
day. An undetermined number Of pris-
oners escaped. The four who were
wounded were recaptured.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
W00DIN GETS 1855, 800
ESTATE FROM MOTHER
Treasury Secretary Only Heir.
Size of Fortune Revealed in
Inheritance Tax Appraisal.
BY the Associated Press.

BLOOMSBURY, Pa August IL
Transfer inheritance tax appraisements
today revealed Secretary of the Treas
ury William II. Woodin received an es-
tate OF $355,300 from his mother, Mrs.
Mary Woodin. who died several months
ago
Mrs. Woodin left no will. Her son is
the only heir. The appraisement
showed $4,000 in real estate and the
rest in personal property.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
TROPICAL STORM BREWS
Cuba Held Not in Danger as Dis
turbance Blows North.

HAVANA, August II LP).-The Ma
tional Observatory reported a small
tropical disturbance today south of
the Isle of Pines and moving north
northwest at the rate of 20 to IS miles
an hour.
Cuba is not In danger, the observa-
tory said In Havana there were rains
and gusty winds throughout the night
Evening star., 1933-08-17

in most instances This class will have
to bear some of the brunt going up.
The only national danger lurking in
the situation is the possibility that in
creased prices will scare off buyers. That
can be cured by imitation.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
Bankers Whisper Of Test.

Bankers Whisper OF Test.
The larger bankers are talking in
whispers about organizing a court test
of the bank guarantee provision. They
consulted one lawyer who thought times
are not propitious for constitutional
arguments. He declined the case.
Others will take it. They will argue
that it deprives the best banks of their
business standing and places their
weaker competitors on an equal footing.
That would be an unanswerable argu-
ment if made by a private business.
However. the Government has unusual
authority over national banks. 1t
grants them charters.
Unless the boys get cold feet, the suit
will be started by Reserve city banks.
Wallace Says He Talks Too Much.
Agriculture Secretary Wallace was
asked why cotton prices were falling.
The question was put in a press con-
ference recently.
Wallace drew a chart from his desk.
It showed the prices Of wheat, corn and
cotton lately have followed the f1uctua-
Evening star., 1933-08-17
DECLARES HOOVER
ASKED POLITICAL
LOAN STATEMEE,

Continued From First Page
Evening star., 1933-08-17
SALE OF D. C. DAIRY
COMPANIES PROBED
BY SENATE GROUP

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Evening star., 1933-08-17

Meanwhile, representatives Of hard
building material concerns refused to
come under a code of competition pro-
posed by retail lumbermen and a series
of conferences was held in an effort
to adjust the differences. The retailers
asked a 40-hour maximum week and
graduated minimum wages.
Conferences were attended by repre-
sentatives of the National Retail Lum-
Der Dealers Association and OF the
National Federation OF Building Sup
plies Association which hes presented
separate code for dealers in brick and
other masonry supplies.
Retail lumber spokesmen indicated
they did not object to the other group
having a separate code for firms han
ding hard materials exclusively, but
insisted on including in their code
those dealers, particularly in the West
Evening star., 1933-12-08
CURB IS IRREGULAR
IN QUIET TRADING
Utilities and AIcohoIs Go
Lower, Along With Some
Metals.
BY JOHN L. COOLEY,

Associated Press Financial Writer.
NEW YORK, December 8.-Activity
on the Curb Exchange was almost at
standstill today and the majority of
price changes were narrow. Gains and
losses were about evenly divided.
Utilities and alcohols were uniformly
lower, such stocks as Canadian Indus
trial Alcohol, American Gas, Electric
Bond g. Share and Niagara Hudson
losing small fractions.
Larger losses occurred in some of tire
industrial and mining issues, including
Lake Shore Mines, Montgomery Ward
"a" Aluminium Co., Pan-American
Anyways and Sherwin- Williams. Great
Atlantic & Pacific advanced around 2
points and Novadel A-G was I'D more
than 4. Oils were steady at slightly
advanced prices.
Evening star., 1933-12-08
INVESTMENT TRUSTS
NEW YORK. December 8 (R.-Ov

the-counter market:
Quotations as of 10 n'clnckl
Evening star., 1933-12-08
New York Cotton
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, December 8.-The
Government cotton crop report TODAY
was closely in line with expectations.
ana without stimulating effect on the
market. Prices, which had advanced
4 to points preceding its publication
eased later under scattering liquidation
ana little local or Southern selling
promoted by the Indifferent showing Of
tne early afternoon wheat and stock
Hlarkfts: March contracts sold off
from !0.17 to 1905 and were ruling
around 1908 in the last hour. when the
net lower. FN---ss
Evening star., 1933-12-08

,ra D!siasnd lates IN dollars ba.sd on i.st
eippiosni psi tPartly extra .Pius AZ In s,ocE
stocyy tyyhos 1,ush N cash or stock Payable in
a. iao0ek adjustment dividend Plus &c
IN ~ STOCK g Plus 81 10 stock 4 Plus IL
Ia sttock stock iPIus 2S In stock. Plus los
In stock pP.id n ds ,sst 81 In stock !. Plus sG
Evening star., 1933-12-08
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.

~ tAe hsoSSA1tC6 E@coos
CHICAGO, December 8.-Stop-loss
selling in a market with speculative
buying down to almost nil, led to a
maximum fall Of more than cents
for wheat today.
Doubts regarding the monetary sit
uation were looked upon by numer-
Gus traders as the main factor in re-
fusal of the wheat market to respond
to constructive news. Declines tp
prices today were in the face Of un-
Official estimates tnat 5000 ,000 acres
Of domestic wheat land would afford
no Winter pasturage, and that the
Southwest demand for feed grain
would consequently be $4,000 900 bush
els greater than usual.
Wheat closed unstable, 15sa2as un-
der yesterdays finish; corn haB of,
oats asa1s of and provisions 2 cents
to II cents up.
Evening star., 1933-12-08
STEEL SCRAP ADVANCED,

NEW YORK, December 8 (P.-Heavy
melting steel scrap has been advanced
20 cents ton at Philadelphia, and at
otner principal centers the trend is said
10 pe nrmer. When bids on railroad
scrap are opened the price situation will
be more clearly defined.
Evening star., 1933-12-08
Cash Grain Market.

Wheat, no sales; corn, No. 2 mixed
49l2; No. 2 yellow, 491aa4934; No. 2
white, 4oa491a; new corn, No. mixed
4734a48h; No. yellow, 48a481l; No. 2
white, 48a49; oats, No 2 white, 36a36A
No. white. 35l2a36: no rye; barley,
42a66 timothy seed, 5.50a6.00 cwt.;
clover seed, 1100a1385 cwt.
Evening star., 1933-12-08
STOCKS.
PUBLIC UTILITY.
METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK. December 8 GP.-Copper
quiet; electrolytic, spot and future. s, Tin
steader: spot and nearby. $500, future,
$3.50 Iron quiet UNCHANGED. Lead steady:
spot, New York. Ais; East ST. Louis. 4.O5.
Zinc dull: East st. Louis. spot and future.
45O Antimony, spot G.S5.
Evening star., 1933-12-08
Cottonseed Oil.

Bleachable- cottonseed oil futures
closed steady; spot unquoted; December.
429b; January, 4.35b; February. 4.38b:
March, 46lb; April, 465b; May. 4. .78b:
June, 4.80b. Sales, Is contracts.
Bid.