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Evening star., 1933-08-17
Predicts Maine Defeat.

PORTLAND, Me. August II P1-
Mrs. Henry w. Peabody, chairman Of the
Women's National Committee for Law
Enforcement, predicted here last night
that repeal will be "soundly and thor
ouRhly defeated" in Maine September
II if prohibitionists get out and vote.
She arrived here after 10 days Of in
tensive campaigning throughout the
State.
Saying she regarded Maine as the
pivotal State" Mrs. Peabody added,
IF Maine goes dry on record at the
polls 1t will mean an incalculable i'm
petus to those States yet to cast their
votes"
Evening star., 1933-08-17
QeplOres Liquor.

CHICAGO, August II lP.-Patrick
N. Callahan of Louisville, secretary Of
the Associations of Catholics Favoring
Prohibition. said here yesterday the
work Of the last century will have to
be done over again and more effec-
tive program formed to combat the
evils of liquor. He spoke at the con-
vention banquet Of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
Propose Repeal Vote.

FRANKFORT. KY. August II lP:-
A bill providing for election OF IS dele
gates from the State at-large on No
venber 7 to pass upon repeal of the
prohibition amendment at q State con:
ventin December IL was introduced
at the special session of the Kentucky
General Assembly yesterday. The meas
ure Is sponsored by the Democratic ad-
ministration of Gov. Ruby Laffoon.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
LINER REX CLAIMS
CROSSING RECORD
Italian Ship Makes Trip in
4 Days 13 Hours and
So Minutes.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, August 1.-THE
Italian liner Rex arrived yeetsrday from
Gibraltar claiming a new record for a
transatlantic crossing by ships.
The Rex made the trip from Gibral-
tar to Ambrose Lightship, at the en-
trance to New York harbor, In four
days Is hours and So minutes, at an
average speed of 1892 knots. The dis
tance given was 3,l8l miles.
Bremen Held Record.
The fastest previous crossing was
made by the North German Lloyd
liner Bremen, sailing the westward
course from Chsrbourg breakwater to
Ambrose Lightship, in September, 1892,
in four days is hours 56 minutes Her
highest average speed, however, was
made on the eastward trip from Am
brose to Cherbourg over the long Sum-
mer course Of 8, ,l99 miles June 80 last
On that voyage her average speed was
1881 knots
The Italian line said the perform
Evening star., 1933-09-25
CAPITAL DEMANDS
FORD COMPLAINTS
Dearborn N. R. A. CompIi-
ance Board Ordered Not to
Act on Protests.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, September 25.-The local
National Recovery Administration Board
in suburban Dearborn was advised OH
cially today that any complaints against
the Ford Motor Go. must be forwarded
to Washington and that the local Com
pliance Board will be without authority
to consider them.
A. ]. Barnaud. district manager Of
the United States Department of Com
merce, told william L. Mills, who re-
vealed the existence of the complaints,
that local compliance boards have au-
thority only to consider cases arising
under the Presidents Unemployment
agreement and that where an industry
operating under an accepted code is
concerned, the matter must 60 to Wash
ington.
While the Ford company has not
signed the automotive code and has not
obtained a Blue Eagle, the automobile
industry Is under an accepted code. For
this reason, Barnaud said, the authority
of the local committee Is limited to
forwarding to Washington any COM
plants 1t may receive.
The Dearborn National Recovery Al
ministration Committee. of which Mills
is secretary and publicity chairman.
was to meet this afternoon to take up
the naming of a compliance board.
Mills had expected that the local COM
pliance board would take up complaints
received concerning the Ford company.
Mills said a number Of new COM
plants had come to his attention today.
Some of the complaints registered by
Ford workmen charge that when the
Ford Co. decided to hire 5000 World
War veterans it did not offer to
reinstate former employees who are
veterans. The selection was left to
the American Legion. Others protest.
ed against a policy, which the COM
pany claims is now abandoned, of pay
ing workers who are deeply In debt
only 81 a day in cash. the remainder
being represented by provisions from
the Ford commissary and payments on
outstanding bills. Still others have
protested against speeding up Of the
production line.
There have been no charges that the
company is violating the work-wage
provisions of the code.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
MARINE SHOOTS SELF
AT PEIPING LEGATION
Sergt. T. C. Wilson, Decorated by
Nicaragua, Takes Own Life
in China.

Serst. Thomas Crawford Wilson. serv-
ing with the United States Marine
Corps in Peiping, China, shot and killed
himself yesterday in the American
legation guard compound. according to
an Associated Press dispatch.
His widow. Mrs. Gladys W. Wilson,
514 E street northeast. is a clerk in
the office of the director of naval COM
munications at the Navy Department
The suicide caused q sensation In
the American colony. occurring only a
stones throw from the legation. where
United States Minister johnson resides, :"
the dispatch said.
Sergt. Wilson was born June 20, 1898,
in Birmingham. Ala, and enlisted In
the Marine Corps in November, 1921.
and has been a member continuously
since During his career he served at
Quantico and Norfolk. Va, and in
Haiti, Nicaragua and China. He went
to Peiping last May, and several months
ago, Marine Corps headquarters said,
he received from the President Of Mica
ragua the decoration Medal Of Merit
for his excellent work in connection
with the United States electoral mis-
sion. which supervised balloting there.
Ofacials said he was next IN line for
promotion to first sergeant and had an
excellent service record.
Mrs. Wilson said today that burial
will be in Birmingham.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
NEWSPAPER CODE
PARLEY DELAYED
Publishers Meeting With La
Dor to Revise Pact Ex-
pected After October |.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The conference between publishers
and labor to work out a recovery code
for newspapers is not expected by N.
r. A. officials to take place before the
first week in October.
This week DR.. Lindsay Rogers, dep
uty administrator handling the code.
may talk informally with Elisha Han.
son. counsel for the American News
paper Publishers Association. but
labor or-employer meeting probably can
not be held. Rogers is trying to work
out code for the 21 other branches
of the commercial printing industry,
and VIII spend most of this week on
that.
He set the first week in next month
as the probable time for the newspaper
conferences because he has to be back
in New York then to resume lecturing
at Columbia University, where he Is
professor Of public law. His leave from
fishers and organized labor have told
him New York would be a satisfactory
meeting place.
Meanwhile he will try to get Hanson
to take out of the code the section
allowing employers to deal with en-
ployes without outside interference as
an Interpretation" of the national re-
covery act. President Roosevelt has
prohibited any further Interpretations
of the collective bargaining feature of
the act
Rogers also will see what sort of
concession Hanson is willing to make
on the code section permitting news
papers to employ children under 16 for
delivery jobs.
There has been no indication that
the publishers, willingly. will yield on
either point.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
POSTAL.TREASURy
SHIFT HITS 1000
Custody of Buildings to Be
Transferred-FeW Dis.
missaIs Forecast.

approximately 1000 custodial en-
ployes in $500 post ofiices will be trans
ferred from Treasury to Pest once
rolls about october 1, under the presi-
Dental Reorganization plan, 1t was said
today at the Post once Department.
While the shift, under the law. auto
matically drops the workers who have
civil service status, 1t was thought 1T
the department that all would be reap
pointed, unless It developed that eco
nomical operation might permit some
thinning out Of the force. 1t was
added, however, that no particular
thought had been given this point.
In the Washington post office, which.
contrary to general practice. had been
under Jurisdiction Of the Post Once
Department until recent months, SO
custodial workers are affected.
The transfer of custody Of post
offices from the Treasury to the Post
Once Department had been advocated
by succeeding postmaster generals for
the last so years. At present, only
rented quarters come under post ONCE
supervision.
In connection with the personnel
change at the City Post Office, it was
said q survey had been completed OF
the 143 married workers whose hus-
bands or wives are in the Government
service, and that most of these-men-
have indicated desire to keep their
positions. This Is expected to result in
dismissal Of the wives In other branches
of the Government. the Post ONCE
Department having decided upon a re-
trenchment program hitting those
workers with marital status and those
with 80 years service.
The city post ONCE force is not over
stated, 1t was said.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
AMERICANS TAKE PRECAUTIoN.
Sugar Mill Officials Go to Club Near
L. s DESTROYER

CHAPARRA, Cuba, September 25 up.
American officials of the Chaparra
Sugar Mill sought safety today in the
yacht club, near the American destroyer
Hamilton and a British freighter an
chored in Puerto Padre Bay, as a gen.
eral strike spread through most of
Oriente Province.
A small party of United States
Marines landed Sunday at Puerto Padre
to obtain supplies, and thereafter re-
turned to the destroyer
Workers and soldiers stood guard at
the Chaparra and Delicias mills and
other properties, and there was no vio-
lence, but strikers cut wires of the
Chaparra Light & Power Co., plunging
more than 10 towns into darkness.
The communities were without water
and rail service, and food supplies
dwindled alarmingly.
The Americans at the yacht club
Included Ralph B. Wood of New Or
leans, former Tulane University foot
ball player, who is manager of the
Chaparra Mill; his assistant Hunter
M Hicks of Ohio; Chief Engineer
William Glathe of New York; Admin
istrative Secretary A. R. Wood of May
wood, Mo, and his Cuban wife and
two children With them was the chief
of the commercial department, George
Gray, Chilean.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
CUBAN COALITION
. SEEN AS POSSIBLE
Continuance of ParIeys Con.
/ firm Batista as Kingpin
of Situation.
BY COL. FREDERICK PALMER.

BY Ra dlo to The star.
HAVANA September 25 (N.AN.A)
The continuance of the confidential
meetings between Col Batista and the
gest new possibilities of coalition and
confirm the colonel as the kingpin in
the situation. both political and
military.
The opposition leaders now realize his
cooperation is essential if there is to
be a nucleus of a drilled force to pre-
serve order. If part of Col. Batista S
force became disaffected and the rest
remained loyal in a crisis 1t would
promote anarchy.
The colonel continues to insist he has
no ambition to be dictator, but stands
Loyalty by Senor Grau San Martin as
President. Both the colonel and the
President are irked by the dictatorial
attitude of the students.
Plan for Coalition Outlined.
The Presidents latest plan for a
coalition is as follows:
The heads of the important news
papers are to consult with the leaders
of the opposition and make up list of
80 men from whom the Provisional
President will choose some members of
his cabinet while he still remains head
of the government.
The linotyperS refused to 60 to work
to get out Sundays papers. They say
this is an armistice between them and
the employers. The newspaper pro-
prietorS prefer not to publish until there
is turn in conditions for the better,
80 heavy are their present losses.
All the leading papers are against
the Grau San Martin government, and
FL Mundo vigorously so. Soldiers en-
tered the Ell Mundo Office and de-
malded to know who wrote the tren-
chant editorial against the government
and also that the statement about the
soldiers conduct at the Hotel National
be corrected. Yet the government says
there is no censorship.
May Commander Supplies.
shortage of food, supplied on the docks
and in the warehouses will be COM
mandered. The prospect of free food
would bring a Utopia for the no-rent
advocates. Rent strike marches con-
tinue to be in vogue just as a general
demonstration and to the landlords
who, as they can collect no rents, pay
no taxes.
A large mo rent" delegation ap-
peared before the presidential palace
to appeal to Grau San Martin, who
Sdlu tneH wrongs WOuld De rlgnted.
The President is busy on his new
labor law which he will issue as a
decree. Some people still remark about
one of his DEGREES that it is uncon-
stitutional, only to be reminded there is
no constitution. Crau San Martin is
a dictator, and his DEGREES are laws as
long as he has the military power to
enforce them.
To believe present rumors, bloody
coup will put him out. There will be
a rush of A. B. C.'s and a sortie of
army officers from the besieged Hotel
National to take the presidential pal
ace. Details of the plan, however, are
circumstantially as given heretofore
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Evening star., 1933-09-25

Continued From First Page.)
naval units in Cuban waters. any ex-
lgency which might arise and receive
from him detailed orders.
The Secretary explained the depart
ment depended on Admiral Freeman to
make practical application of the gen.
eral instructions sent from here.
The Secretary said there had been
nothing new from Cuba today except
word that conferences were still going
on among different Cuban elements
about problems of assuring a stable gov
eminent.
Ambassador Sumner Welles tele-
phoned the department that the vio-
lence and unrest of recent hours had
lessened in some sections last night, but
he reported simultaneously the storming
of mine property near Cristo by $50
men, who shot guns into the air.
Troops were called out to quell the dis
turbance
Along the coast a number of Ameri-
cans were reported ready if necessary
to flee in small boats to anchored war
ships Commanders of these naval YES
sells were authorized to land armed
forces to protect lives without the delay
of first consulting higher authorities.
ManZanillo and Cienfuegos, of which
American destroyers floated, were two
Cuban points where Welles reported
conditions improved. He said, too, that
Santa Clara was quiet and no trouble
was expected from scheduled Com
munist demonstration at Banes.
Food Commandeered.
Earlier consular reports termed con-
ditions in = the city and province of
MatanZas exceedingly distressing"
Armed men were said to be COM
Wandering food, but so far no molest-
ing of Americans was reported.
Disturbing advices regarding Havana
also reached the department. Consuls
reported alarming increases in robbery
and petty thieving.
Cubas difficulties in general COM
bined to disrupt much of the admins
tration program for the Seventh
Pan american Conference to gather
at Montevideo, Uruguay, early in De-
cember. Welles was to have returned
and concentrated on plans for the con-
ference, but has been held in Havana
Further, it was conceded by officials
here that should American troops have
to land in Cuba, this government
would be handicapped considerably in
pressing its trade plans at Montevideo.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
CAPITAL LEADS j. s.
IN BREAD PRICE RISE
Some Bakers Boost Loaf |
Cent and Bring on In
vestigation.

The largest increase in bread prices
in the period of August Is to August 20
occurred in Washington, according to
statistics just released by DR.. Fred c.
Howe, consumers counsel for the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administration.
According to Dr. Howes figures, the
average price Of a one-pound loaf of
white bread here rose from 70 to 7a
cents. Other increases listed were
Butte. Mont. 7.8 to 90 cents: Jackson
vile, Fla. TT to 81 cents; Detroit. SO
to 70 cents, and Louisville, IL to IA
cents
In spite of these increases. the
average price of rs cents for 81 cities
remained unchanged during the period
mentioned. DR.. Howe's statement called
attention to the wide disparity in the
prices charged in the various cities. a
disparity, he said. which has not yet
been satisfactorily explained.
up to the present time" he said,
I'VE have not received a complete an
swer to our request to the American
Bakers Association for an explanation
for this wide disparity in price. Our
correspondence with the association is
still going on
Bread prices of some Washington
bakers went up l cent pound on Au-
gust 25 which is included in the period
of DR.. Howe's study. When asked how
the figures published by DR.. Howe COM
pared with those kept by the bakers L.
A. Spiess, lawyer for the bakers who
put their prices up, said it would be i'm
possible for him to tell, but he was will
ing to believe DR.. Howes figures were
accurate. I'VE have always found him
very fair" Mr. -Spiess said
The 1-cent increase here led to an in
vestigation now being conducted by
Assistant Corporation Counsel Robert
E. Lynch, who said today he is still
working on cost figures submitted and
to be submitted by local bakers.
Mr. Lynch's investigation is being
conducted at the request of Senator
King of Utah, chairman of the Senate
District Committee.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
H0use,Uifes' Code
Would Pass Buck
On Drying Dishes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BEAUMONT, Tex, September 25.
Hearing nothing about . 40-hour
week for housewives. q hon1emaker Of
Nederland. Tex, has proposed . code
Of her own.
Received by B. b. johnson. county
Judge, in Q letter which suggested its
consideration by President Roosevelt
and modestly signed Mrs. L. T. p" the
code follows:
Every housewife shall be taken out
to dinner at least once o week.
Husband or some other member Of
the family shall dry all the supper
dishes.
Every housewife Is entitled to q mini
mum Of two movies weekly.
Husband shall help children with at
least half Of home work
Every housewife Is entitled to 10 per
cent Of family pay check for personal
expenditures on self for clothes, Co.'S
metics, etc.
Every housewife Except where sick
ness or other emergency exists Is en-
titled to sleep late at least. two mornings
weekly.
Every housewife is entitled to extra
help for housecleaning.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
in payment, those acres should not be

in payment, those acres should not be
titled
Until our people have the vision to
adopt longtime world trading policy
which is in keeping with our position
as creditors, we must engage In the
delicate processes of adjusting basic
production downward"
Outlining the wheat production con-
troll campaign which ends tonight,
Wallace said those who fear that
our production control program will In
crease the number of hungry mouths
simply do not understand the world
situation that exists today"
"Piling up wheat surplus to three
times the normal, as we have done in
the past four years." he said, makes
more hungry mouths, rather than less.
It took the wheat farmer OF the mar
ket as buyer Of goods and the de-
preston spread. It spread to all other
farmers, then to those whose business
depends directly upon farm custom
and finally to Wall Street and the
Loop"
"No amount of infiation," Wallace
said, mo dumping Of stabilization ef-
forts, no attempt at price liking will
by Themselves prove to be enough.
Combined with production control, all
these things might help US, but without
that they are only patchworks on
structure that Is badly OF balance ct
base"
Evening star., 1933-09-25
TRUE CHRIST BIOGRAPHY
HELD IMPOSSIBLE BY INGE
Dean of st. Paul's Writes Fore
word in "Jesus the Unknown"
by Rassin Merezhkovsky.


LONDON, September Whatever
confidence we may place in the good
faith and substantial accuracy of the
Synoptic Gospels, it remains true that
we cannot construct q biography of
Jesus Christ" declares Dean william
Ralph Inge of st. Pauls in the FORE
word to Jesus the Unknown" book
by Rassin Merezhkovsky published to-
day.
These lives are most of them un-
satisfactory" the dean says. They are
all stepped in the national character Of
the countries in which they are written
and express the ideas and the ideals
prevalent in the generation in which
they appeared. Seeley's Ecce Homo is
the work of contemporary and fellow
countryman of Tennyson; fine book,
but Jesus Christ was not an English
man, nor did he live in the reign Of
Queen Victoria"
Evening star., 1933-09-25
WOMAN'S DEATH PROBED
Widow of Novelist Succumbs
Powder Overdose Suspected.

BATH, England. September Is R.-
Authorities today investigated the death
here last night of Mrs. A. M William
son, widow and collaboration of the
noted British novelist.
1t was understood that a coroner's
jury may consider the question whether
she may have died as a result Of having
taken accidentally an overdose Of .
sleeping draught.
Police are said to have taken posses
sion of several sealed letters found In
her handbag She was discovered un-
conscious Saturday evening in a hotel
room Her husband, with whom she
worked on many novels, died here in
1920. She felt his loss keeply. and is
believed to have come here especially
for the anniversary Of his death. She
was spiritualist and said she had
communicated with her husband since
his death
Evening star., 1933-09-25

society, which Is not connected with
any other labor organization, Is de-
manding 81 and the spread Of work
among q larger number Of men.
The organization y the same which
Is sponsoring q strike of Flint, Mich,
automobile workers In the two trades.
Pickets appeared in Flint today, but
there was no disorder reported. Auto
mobile factory oficials there deny that
any considerable number Of men are
on strike.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
n. r. A. Activities
Administrator Studies the
Trade and Retail
Drug Codes.

Today.
Hugh S. Johnson studies the retail
trade and retail drug codes.
Hearings open on codes for hotels,
precious jewelry producing. handker-
chief manufacturing and the cleaning
and dyeing industry.
Yesterday.
johnson canvassed N. r. A. activities
from viewpoint of credit needs
Senator Schall, Republican. of Min
nesota, said credit expansion plans
were a confession the IN. r. A. boom
is busted"
Evening star., 1933-09-25
Duke to Wed American.

PARIS, September 25 R.-The en-
fagement of Helen Seton, daughter of
Mrs. Alfred Seton Of New York, and
the Duke Of Feltre was announced
today. . .s-.4-.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
STRIKE VOTE TAKEN
Tool and Dye Workers Of Detroit
Auto Plants Counting Ballots.

DETROIT. September Is R.-Mem-
bers of the Mechanics' Educational So
ciety revealed today that strike vote
has been taken BY tool and die workers
of Detroit automobile plants who be-
long to the organization. The ballots
are now being counted, the society's To-
cal Executive Committee announced. 4,
Tool and die workers now receive ap-
proximately 70 cents an hour, and the
Evening star., 1933-09-25
S1GN-P0s rs

IMAGINE yourself unfamiliar highway night in the
country You 60 Allison You forked road.
No sgns Which way? You left and crossroad.
No signs. You right. You proves be
Liberty. You 60 back the fork and left mile or SO
farther you another crossroad sign pointing right
says "Alison three miles,"
But for that gnpo you might have Travelled messpent
hours and come short of your destination.
yourself in need of hosiery, clothing breakfast foods
anything ee and this without advertisements! Think Of
the number of you would have VISIT qualities prices
check reliabiLties o consider.
Advertisements sgnposs. They Information. They
you from wandering ae from They keep
you advised of the products of the latest values They
you time and greater buying your dollars They
you of quality and Merchandise for only goods
honestly advertised stand the spotlight of publicity
READ THE EMENTS
Evening star., 1933-09-25
REBEL CHIEF GOES
TO CUBAN CAPITAL;
CALLS AT PALACE

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1933-09-25

Secretary wallace. in saying that
unless world trade is restored 10000, 900
acres of American land must be taken
out of cultivation, indicated he ex-
pressed the view of the President.
"As things are now, those 10000, 900
acres breed nothing but confusion, pow
erty and waste. AS long as we remain
a creditor nation, with high tariff poll
cies, refusing to accept foreign goods