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Evening star., 1933-11-04
ATTORNEY is GIVEN
AERONAUTICS POST
Chester A. Snow, Jr., "Dollar-a-
Year Expert in Commerce
Department Branch.

Appointment of Chester A. Snow, jr.
Washington attorney, holder of De-
partment Of Commerce transport pilots
license and of commission in the
Army Air Corps Reserve, as a dollar
a-year" aeronautical expert in the Aero
nautics Branch of the Department OF
Commerce was announced today by
Eugene L. Vidal, director of aeronauticS
Mr.. Snow, who is widely experienced
in various phases of aeronauticS, will
act IN an advisory capacity in connec-
ton with developing and perfecting aids
to air navigation. instruments, aero
nautical radio. and similar work. Mr..
Vidal said. He also will aid in flight
testing and giving practical service
trials to equipment in process of de-
velopment
Snow for some time has been engaged
in scientific and technical studies in
connection with navigation, instrument
flying and radio research. He holds,
in addition to the highest of all Depart
ment Of Commerce flying licenses. an
Army airplane pilots rating and a De-
partment of Commerce airplane and
engine mechanics license.
Mr.. Snow served in the Army Air
Service from August, 1917, to May. 1919.
He was recommissioned in the Army Air
Reserve in 1920 and now is a major in
the reserve and is commanding officer
based at Boiling Field He makes his
home at 68o5 Brookville road, Chevy
Chase, Nd.
Evening star., 1933-11-04
FORD LAY-OFF PLAN e.
MAY BRING ACTION
{ BY N. R. A. OFFICIALS
Continued From First Page.)
posal as was recently put forward by
Swope for industrial self-rule.
BELIEVE ACT NOT VIOLATED.
Lay on Of Workers Held Move TO Live
Down to n. r. A.

DETROIT, November LP).-The
Ford Motor Co. today was represented
as believing II Is In no way violating
the provisions Of the national recovery
act in its announced plan of laying off
workmen seven days to come within the
35-hour week provisions of the N. R. A.
automobile code
Beyond the assertion last night that
1t was compelled to take the action
work in this country" further official
day.
The Ford announcement recalled the
company's assertion many weeks ago
that ito live up to the code we would
have to live down to It," Officials at
that time indicated they believed the
company maintained a better wage and
hour schedule than that provided in the
N. r. A. code, which Henry Ford has
not signed.
The statement of N r. A. officials
in Washington that they planned to
scan forthcoming Ford wage and hour
figures to determine whether workmen
had been employed at a higher av-
erage than 35 hours without a produc-
tion rush was believed by Ford officials
to be hastily and ill-advisedly made"
Feel Schedule Justified.
The company. it was indicated, feels
its 40-hour week would not have been
adopted had it not been justified in
production and that although automo-
bile manufacturers have worked for
many months to Smooth out" the
seasonal ebb and flow of the factories,
they have not yet been able to main
tain a steady level throughout the
year.
Under the announced plan. 5000 men
will be laid of for a seven day period,
which officials indicate would start next
week. while other groups of like num-
Der will follow in succeeding weeks.
The Ford Co.. following its failure
to sign the auto code, has made 1t plain
that although it proposes to comply
with its terms and "obey the law" in
every respect. it is opposed to the N. r.
A. in principle.
Hourly schedules and wages paid by
the Ford Co. will be forwarded to the
National Automobile Chamber of Com
merce by November or 7. Other auto
mobile companies are expected to file
their schedules within few days, but
today said they were unable to give
out the figures in advance Of filing.
Evening star., 1933-11-04
HARRY |. GESSFORD
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Former Police Superintend.
ent Had Been in III Health
Since 1921.

Maj Harry L. Gessford, former super
intendent Of police. died today at his
home. 4713 Piney Branch road. He had
been in i'll health since his retirement
from The superintendency late in 1921.
The former police chiefs health
broke down Immediately after Armistice
day, 1921, when he was in charge of
all police arrangements for the huge
demonstration which attended the
burial of the Unknown Soldier.
In making preparations for this OBJ
Of delegates 10 the Arms Conference the
same year. Mai. Gessford worked Is
and 20 hours a day. During the two
weeks preceding the burial of the I'm
known Soldier he made more than 1000
police detailS-a record for the depart
ment.
Native Of Washington.
Maj Gessford came to the depart
ment in January, 1881, month before
reaching his majority. He was native
of Washington, and his father, Lieut..
James w. Gessford. was a member Of
the department at the time.
He became a private Of class No. l
in 1892 and acting sergeant in 1899. In
1901 he was made sergeant. the next
day lieutenant and the day following
he became captain. Five years later
he was given the title of inspector, and
August 10, 1919. became assistant
superintendent of police under Maj.
r. W. Pullman. When Pullman died,
August 10, 1920, he was chosen to fill
the superintendency. He was succeeded
by Maj. Sullivan. after almost Al years
in the department.
Police to Escort Body.
He was a member Of Mount Pleasant
Chapter. No. 13. r. A. M: Mount
Pleasant Lodge, No 80. F. A A M
and had belonged to the Rotary and
Kiwanis Clubs and the Board of Trade.
Funeral services will be held Mon
day at his home with burial in Con-
gressional Cemetery. Maj. Brown will
name a police escort to attend the
rites.
Maj. Gessford is survived by three
sons. five daughters and nine grand
children. His wife died about eight
years ago.
general order went out from po-
lice headquarters Immediately after
news of Maj. Gessford's death reached
high police officials to lower all flags
on police precincts to half mast.
Evening star., 1933-11-04

But here again both sides were forced
into premature publicity. The details
had not been worked out before Swope
offered the plan johnson Immediately
saw Swope was going further in con-
servative way than he intended to go.
The result was more confusion.
The whole thing seems to boil down
to this:
Big business is taking its golden op-
portunity to force reorganization of the
N R. A. along more conservative lines.
The administration master minds have
been stymied by public opinion. They
are inclined to compromise.
Trend Is Conservative.
That makes it appear the future
course of the N. r. A. will have to be
toward conservatism, temporarily at
least
After aH that is only return
to the original principles first
laid doUn By the administration
uhen the act 1pds passed in Con-
qreSs. 1t eliminates most OF the
militant fire breathed into the
set-up by Gen. Johnson. 1t re-
turns to ,Ohat Mr.. Roosevelt told
business in his speech to the
Chamber OF Commerce early in
the Summer.
That means more cooperative man
agement of business by itself and less
big sticking by the Government
The subsurface Republican situa-
ton in New York is by no means placid.
Congressman Wadsworth is in cor
ner sucking his thumb and eyeing the
strange association of his conservative
confrere, Ogden Mills, with Fiorello La
Guardia. Wadsworth will have no,h-
Ing to do with La Guardia-or Mills.
Evening star., 1933-11-04
Letter Not Important.

That Cuban letter suppressed by the
Stock Market Investigating Committee
did not amount to anything. 1t merely
contained the names Of certain men
who had been threatened with violence
Committee members felt violence
against these individuals might be en-
couraged if the letter was made public
especially after it had received so much
publicity.
Stock marketeers need not be so wor-
ried about prospective administration
moves to curb speculation. There are
very definite indications that legitimate
trading will not be interfered with.
Several hundred companies fur.
nishing parts for Ford are fear.
ing that the N. r. A. pdncers may
hurt them, although they are
N. r. A. dealers themselves.
A Norfolk correspondent suggested
that the young girl who swan from the
San Francisco Bay prison after Attor-
ney General Cummings said it could
not be done. was not Republican, but
lame duck.
All opposing factions are trying hard
to keep the Rockefeller name out of
the Pecora investigation of Chase
National Bank, It has been mentioned
only once, when Albert Wiggin testi-
fed that the Rockefellers were the larg-
est stockholders in the bank.
(Copyright, 1881 -
Evening star., 1933-11-04
WAS BROOKLYN DANCER
Bert Godfrey Convinced Slain Girl Is
His Daughter.

NEW YORK, November 4 CP).-Bert
Godfrey, father of Joan Winters, said
today he was convinced that a woman
found slain in Jerusalem yesterday was
his daughter.
Miss winters original name, as it
VeSta NiedergeSaess Winters was
stage name and she was also known
as Carol Winters. During the war her
family changed its name to Godfrey
and she took the name Of Carol
Godfrey.
Her father was at the hotel ST.
George In Brooklyn today. He said he
did not believe the motive for the slay-
ing was robbery, first because he knew
she did not have much money with her.
and second because reports said Jeru-
salem police were mystified about the
motive.
Gables Officials.
st think it is possible" he said. that
a maraudering band came upon her and
her guide and killed them"
He said he had cabled American Off
cials in Jerusalem asking all details.
He also was waiting for news from the
State Department in Washington.
Miss Godfrey's mother said she re-
ceived a letter a week ago from her
daughter, dated from 1stanbul and an
nouncing her early return to the United
States. Neither this letter nor any
other, the family said. mentioned the
Moslem Mohammed Karama1. whose
body was found beside hers.
Came From Seattle.
About two months ago. the parents
of Miss Godfrey received the following
verse in a letter from her:
I stood in the shadow of death,
And I reached out my hand,
And life took it into hers,
And we understood each other.
The family came to Brooklyn from
Seattle. where during the World War
they received permission to change their
name from Won Neidergesaess to God
frey. Miss Godfrey attended dancing
school in Seattle, later appearing in
several productions in this city under
the names Of Carol Winters and Joan
Winters.
Evening star., 1933-11-04

ming to get out for some time. They
them. They We're embarrassed by the
opposition stirred up in the country
against the N. R. A. If they quit cold
they would lay themselves open to the
charge of trying to harpoon the ad-
ministration.
So they deuised the rotating
system OF resigning to protect
themselves against public Sus-
ptcions. 1t made their retirement
appear to be only temporary.
The trouble with that was peeping
newspaper man found out about the
designations and published the story
before the N. r. A. officials we're ready
to put it out in a proper way.
The Swope plan had been under
consideration backstage for a long time
While it bears the name Of Gerard
Swope, it was previously suggested by
Pat Hurley, the Hoover Secretary OF
War. He interpreted the N. R. A. as
a cooperative business venture in that
radio speech he made several weeks
ago. He got the idea from what MI
Roosevelt had said months before.
johnson Plan Different.
More recently Gen. johnson had dif-
ferent plans. His associates wanted
to carry the N. R. A. into more radical
ground eventually, with more Gov
ernment control instead Of less.
The public reaction into which the
N. r. A. run recently prevented the
fulfillment Of that plan. The current
situation demanded retrenchment and
reorranization so johnson gave con-
sideration to the conservative Hurley
Swope plan at least two weeks before
it was made public.
Evening star., 1933-11-04

tional Dairy we're denied fatty by the
milk marketing expert when he took
the stand. The denial came in response
to question by Roger ]. Whiteford,
counsel for Chestnut Farms, who was
granted permission by Chairman King
of the District Committee to question
several witnesses.
The brain trust" Of the producers
organization, Walker testified. Is COM
posed of himself, Heaps and McGin.
I'VE get together and work our brains
and try to decide what Is best for the
producers" he said.
He said he was responsible for Heaps
connection with the local organization,
but that the appointment Of DR.. King
was due largely to the late DR.. Samuel
NJ Shoemaker, chairman Of the board
Of regents Of the University Of Mary
land.
Shoemaker's Holding Shown.
"And DR.. Shoemaker held several hun
dred share Of National Dairy stock, did
he not?" asked Senator King.
When Walker said he was not GER
tain how muc-l, If any, stock was held
by DR.. Shoemaker, Seal irterposed:
About $4,000 shares, Mr.. Chair
man." =
Evening star., 1933-11-04
FORD WILL lay OFF
1900 UNDER CODE
Company, Reluctant to Take
Step, Says Work Is Now
Against the Law.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, November 4.-Oficials of
the Ford Motor Co. have announced
that, in order to comply with their in
depreciation of the provisions of the N.
r. A. automotive code, weekly lay-offs
would be instituted at Dearborn to
bring the workers within the maximum
35-hour average working week specified
in the code.
This will be accomplished, spokes-
man for the company said last night,
by laying of 5000 men for a seven-day
period next week, following it with one
week lay-offs Of 5000 other workers in
succeeding weeks until each will have
reduced his working time since last
September when the code was signed
by seven days.
Move Made Reluctantly.
THE company is taking tais manda-
tory step in compliance with the new
try" spokesman for the Ford COM
pany said
The rouge plant has been in opera
ton on 5-day, 4o-hour week basis for
some time, and officials said that the
contemplated lay-offs will reduce the
average work week for all to 35 hours
by the first of the year. The last off,
eial employment figures placed the
number of workers at the rouge plant
ct $4,000.
Referring to the step the Ford spokes-
man said: I'VE don't want to do it,
but the law requires it,
Code Provision Cited.
The revised automobile code approved
under the heading "hours," reads In
part:
"* is made a provision of this
code that employers shall so operate
their plants that the average employ
ment of all factory employees shall not
exceed 35 hours per week. It will be
necessary at times to operate for sub
stantially longer hours, but no employe
shall be employed for more than six
days or 48 hours in any one week, and
all such peaks shall be absorbed in such
average"
1,5OO WORKERS PROTEST.
Evening star., 1933-11-04
pre-war purchasing power.


Code Barred by Amendment
He said they also found that NJ
r. A code would not be possible because
the industrial act specifically exempted
farmers from its licensing provisions
under an amendment pressed by Sen
etor Long, Democrat, of Louisiana. The
Governors then turned to the provisions
Of the farm act that authorized wal
lace to enter into marketing agreements,
or to prescribe them and to control the
marketing of commodities, and devel-
oped the new program.
Olson said the Governors offered to
police the plan in their States, and were
confident it could be successfully en-
ployed not only there but in five other
States, Nebraska. Kansas, Missouri, In
diana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
He added that the department said
there might be prospect OF employing
tI in these 10 States, but that it would
be unavoidable unless used on ma.
tional scale and that they believed
farmers in other States would definitely
oppose Government compulsory inter-
ference with their production Olson
said he and the other Governors be-
lieved farmers generally would approve
I'VE Governors do not believe the
plan is necessarily In finished form but
that it is the basis on which the de-
partment's experts should proceed in
speeding up relief for agriculture, -
Olson said IF the department has not
rejected the program as Secretary Wal
lace says, we will be more than happy
If they proceed to its consideration. Un-
less it is adopted, farm distress will
continue.
I'VE take the position that the de-
partment should proceed with its pres
ent plans as far as possible, but that
our program should supplement it in
order to get some immediate results for
the farmers
Olson and LANCER both asserted that
prices to consumers would not neces-
sarily be increased by the program.
Evening star., 1933-11-04

Continued From First Page)
the National Dairy Products Corpora,
tlon affliliateS, Chestnut Farms and
Chevy Chase Diaries, pay the largest
amount of any distributors toward sup
port of the council The dairies com
Gil. while the Maryland and Virginia
Milk Producers Association pay the
other half.
National Dairy Feared.
1t was developed at yesterdays hear
ing that fear" of the National Dairy
Products Corporation caused the Mary
land and Virginia Milk Producers As
sociation to obtain the services of Isaac
w. Heaps and organize the Eastern
States Milk Marketing Association, with
Heaps as its manager. Frank Walker,
president of the Maryland and Virginia
organization offered the testimony un-
der questioning by Seal.
When DR.. King (Clyde L. King,
milk arbitrator of the A. A. A. left
us, we were in a tough position, espe-
cially with regard to the Chestnut
Farms Dairy" Walker testified. Chest
nut Farms withdrew its contracts with
the association and I was afraid of
u COMBINATION on CnlS market.
Walker explained that the combina-
ton he feared was the control Of the
two largest dairies-Chestnut Farms
and Chevy Chase-by National Dairy.
He added that he had heard Of Heaps
Success In the Baltimore market" and
that he persuaded him to help the
producers in the Washington milkshed
out Of their difficulties.
When he had completed his testi-
mony, w. Gwynn Gardiner, special
counsel for the producers organization,
asked:
Get Heaps to Help.
when DR.. King left (about 1920
you were so scared Of the big fellow
the National Dairy-that you went over
to Baltimore and got Mr.. Heaps to
help pull you out Of the hole, were
you not?"
"Yes. that's right" Walker answered.
Inferences that Heaps was connected,
or ever had been connected, with Ma
Evening star., 1933-11-04
DILL FAVORS RAISE
IN GOVERNM ENT PAY
Senator to Work for Restoration
to Level Preceding Cut of
Is Per Cent.
BY the Associated Press.


SPOKANE, Wash, November a
Senator c. c. Dill, Democrat. of Wash
ington said yesterday he would recon-
mend restoration of salaries of Govern
ment employees to the level preceding
In response to a question by Claude
Babcock president of the Association OF
Federal Government Employees here, Dill
replied: :,
TT seems to me that Congress should
restore the salaries of Government en-
ployes, and I expect to work to that
end"
Evening star., 1933-11-04
What's What
Behind News
in Capital'
R. F. c. May Require
More Liberal Tone
As Policy Changes.
BY PAUL MALLON.


TINE conservative complexion Of
the R. F. C.. may be rouged
shortly
i Certain inner administration
circles want to give it more
liberal and lifelike tint. They are CAM
paigning inside for some one of the
hue of Amos Pinchot. brother of gar
rulous Gov. Clifford Pinchot Of Penn
Sylvania.
Their idea is that the r. F. c. now
is full of pale-faced conservatives.
That was all right as long as the
corporation was slated for the scrap
heap as an obsolete Hoover institu-
ton. Now that Mr.. Roosevelt has de-
cided to revive it, they want more
evenly balanced board.
They are not trying to rub out
Chairman Jesse Jones, but rather
one OF Jones' associates mentioned
in the stock market investigation.
This sudden turnover in the N. R. A.
was not as suspicious as 1t looked.
What gave it the suspicious appear
ance was the fact that the publicity
went haywire.
Had Planned to Quit.
The truth seems to be that the five
big business men on the N. R. A. Ad-
visory Council had been secretly plan
Evening star., 1933-11-04
ROBERT L. LIVINGSTON,
DRY LAW AGENT, DIES
Funeral Services Will Be Held
Monday With Burial in Glen
wood Cemetery.

Robert L. Livingston, 81, prohibition
agent here for a number Of years, died
yesterday at his home, 3432 Lowell
Street. Funeral services will be held
at the Lowell street address probably
at / pm. Monday, with burial in Glen
wood Cemetery.
He was a son of the late Representa-
tive Livingston of Georgia, and came to
Washington as his fathers secretary.
Before coming to the Washington
Baltimore area he was deputy prohibi-
ton administrator for New Jersey.
His widow and four children survive.
Evening star., 1933-11-04
WOMAN OF BLADENSBURG
SERIOUSLY HURT BY CAR
Victim Is Taken to Providence Hos
pital by Rescue Squad-Driver
Disappears.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
BLADENSBURG, Md, November A.
Struck by an automobile while walking
along River road, near her home, Mrs.
Katie Frohlick. 80, was seriously in
jured about noon today.
She was taken in an unconscious con-
dition to Providence Hospital by the
Bladensburg rescue squad. The extent
Of her injuries could not be determined
at once.
Members Of the rescue squad said
that when they returned TO the scene
the driver Of the car ha disappeared.
Evening star., 1933-11-04
Bites Hand That Feeds.

BERKELEY, Calf. (P).-Polly appar-
emily did not want a cracker When
pet parrot the bird protested with beak
and claw and sent Mrs. Barginner to
a hospital with severe hand lacerations.
Neiehbors killed Polly.
Evening star., 1933-11-04
GOLD PRICE DROPS
IN WORLD MARKET
Whether U. S. Policy Will
Cause Currency War May
Be Known in Few Days.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The world price of gold was lower
today, but the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation quotation for newly-mined
metal here went on to a new high,
while dispatches from abroad indicated
the day saw no purchases in bullion
markets there for the American Gov
ernment.
The London gold figure fell overnight
from the equivalent Of 1925 an ounce
to s32os, but following their policy of
constantly increasing the domestic
figure, administration officials raised it
from s3257 yesterday to s3267 today.
London dispatches said the only gold
transaction recorded there was minor.
Whatever the administration is doing
through its agents in foreign markets.
it is saying nothing about it here and
shielding the operations from specula-
tors who might seek to take advantage
Of such information.
British Pound Rises.
Whether the new monetary policy
will result in currency depreciation
war with other countries may be deter
mined in the next few days, 1t was
indicated today.
With the British pound rising yester-
day to S4.855, within a cent of its
dollar value when both units were on
a gold basis, some economists believe
attainment of the old parity would be
logical point for decision on whether
to seek approximate stabiliZation or
further dollar depreciation.
Although the administration empha-
sizes it has no desire for depreciation
race, some officials concede such COM
petitive depreciation still a possibility.
No clear-cut statement has come
from France or England to indicate
their acquiescence in the administra-
tons belief the buying Of foreign gold
could be pursued without detriment to
them.
Gives Trade Advantage.
Currency depreciation gives the de-
preciating country trade advantage
as long as foreign prices rise more
rapidly than domestic prices and costs.
It is no&>expected here that Great
Britain wtNd sit by and watch Its
markets captured by American prod
ucts, particularly as Britain already
has a huge exchange sterilization fund
which deals in gold exchange virtually
the same as this country does in gold.
This fund heretofore. though, has been
used primarily for stabilization OF the
pound.
The only way the United States could
push dollar depreciation much further
without encountering resistance by
Great Britain, some economists believe,
is by achieving a domestic price rise
which would preserve the world-trade
status quo as far a production costs are
concerned
The administration is attempting to
force domestic prices upward by numer-
GUS methods unrelated to its gold pol
icies. among them the N. r. A., the ag-
ricultural adjustment plan with its huge
benefits to farmers and the providing OF
credit for real estate, industry and State
and local governments, as well as its
own public works program.
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