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Evening star., 1933-09-24
HARD ELECTION
FIGHT IN JERSEY
FACES LEADERS
Democrats Pick
Ticket, but G.. O. P.
Haze Contests.
BY EDWARD NJ. GILROY.

special DlSpatCD 10 Inc SIaT.
TRENTON. N. j., SepteI..Der 23-A
wide-open fight for the Republican
nomination for Governor and a scarcity
of material in the Democratic party
confronted party leaders this week as
they discussed tickets for the 1884 elec-
tions, at which Governor and United
States Senator will be chosen.
The Democrats have virtually agreed
upon their ticket, providing their Sc
lected candidates will make the race.
Mayor Frank Hague of jersey City
wants Gov. A. Harry Moore to run for
the Senate and William L. Dill of Pat
erson, former motor vehicle commits
sioner, to be his running mate for Gov
ernor But Moore, after two terms as
Governor and 20 years in politics, wants
to retire to his law business and has no
interest in the Senate seat. Dill, anx-
ious to run, has been seriously Ill and
may not have strength enough to cam
paign.
Senate President Emerson L. Rich
ards is the most aggressive of the Re-
publican candidates. AS head OF the
Senate he took a prominent part in
recognizing the State Highway Com
mission and in shaping legislative poll
cies. But many of his own party are
wary of supporting him because OF the
close working agreement he has shown
in the Legislature with the Democrats
Enemies of Richards have asked
United States Senator w. Warren Bar
bour to run for Governor and resign
from the Senate If elected. They have
told Barbour the Republican party Is
disorganiZed and needs him to restore
harmony. Barbour is known to have
given serious consideration to the plan.
Other Republican leaders are trying
to persuade Walter E. Edge, former
Governor, Senator and Ambassador to
France, to run for Governor. Edge is
ambitious for a place on the national
ticket in 1886 and wants to be in the
public eye He would like to be Cover
nor, but has withheld committing him.
self until there is something approach
ing harmony in the Republican ranks.
Harold G. Hoffman, motor vehicle
commissioner and former Representa-
tive, also is working for the Republican
nomination. He will not run against
Edge, but would enter primary against
Richards. So will Robert Carey, former
Judge and Hague's bitterest enemy.
Senator Joseph G.. Wolber of Essex,
fine vote-getter, with long rec
ord in the Legislature, is admitted to
be the strongest Republican candidate
except for his independence in the past
toward partisan politics, making ward
leaders prefer a more pliable candi-
date.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
BY ]. H. GAILBRAITH.
Special Dispatch to The Star

SpeC4d1 blSpdtCIl 10 he 0ltr
- OLUMBUS, Ohio, September %.
Gov. George White has
avoided making any statement
~ about his expected candidacy
for the United States Senate,
against Senator Simeon D. Fess next
year, but he took what is generally in
terpreted as the first step in that direc-
ton this week when he announced he
term in the Governors Office.
This statement throws open to all
the privilege of trying for the Demo-
cratic nomination.
Now that the Governor has made
his intentions clear, there is no rush
to declare candidates.. 1t is under
stood both Lieut.. Gov. C. E. Sawyer and
former Lieut.. Gov. William G. Pick
rel contemplate entering the primary
contest for place at the head of the
ticket
Former Representative M L. Davey
of Kent is known to have ambition to
sit in the Governors chair, but his
hostility to Gov White has been so
open he would be sure to meet opposi-
tion of Gov. Whites supporters. He
was active against the nomination Of
the Governor for the presidency last
year.
With an adverse vote almost as great
as in the first special session, the Legis-
lature has for second time defeated
Gov. Whites retail sales tax PROPOSE
ton. and. unable to agree on some of
the additional taxes to finance the weak
school districts of the State has turned
to few minor matters, intending to
authorize taking the three and half
Evening star., 1933-09-24
White to Seek Senate Seat,
Notice He Will Not Run
For Governor Indicates

millions required for the schools from
the general revenue fund.
Gov. White threatens to veto this act,
as there is not that much in the gen.
eral revenue fund not already appro-
priated, so that the act would be moth
ing more than a gesture.
The Democratic leaders are hoping
that with the end of the prohibition
amendment it will be possible for the
State to levy heavy taxes again upon
the liquor traffic and make it un-
necessary to increase the burden upon
business.
They see a danger, however, in the
pending proposal to amend the State
constitution so as to limit the rate of
taxation on real estate to one cent on
home owners generally are looking
upon in a friendly manner. 1t may
be adopted. and, If so, another monkey
wrench will be thrown into the State
taxation system, for with the adoption
of the classification system four years
ago the burden of taxation has been
shifted very largely upon real prop
erty. In fact, there Is no other source
Of funds for the schools-the most
expensive feature of the State gov
ernment. If this amendment should
be adopted, complete overhauling of
the State laws as to taxation would
be Immediately necessary.
The failure of the present Legisla-
ture to provide even stopgap taxation
legislation gives little hope that a
satisfactory tax system can be worked
out by it, consequently the Governors
plan to call it into special session in
January for that purpose gives little
hope of anything practical coming
out OF it;
Evening star., 1933-09-24

PENNSYLVANIA ROADS
PROGRAM HANGS FIRE
Conflict In State and Federal Policies
Delays Start-Projects Totaling Less
Than Is Miles Advertised.

feated throughout the State The hard
est blow to the Pinchot organization
came in Luzerne County, where the or
ganization headed by Judge John S.
Fine lost its principal contest. Tho.
Fine organization has been the smooth
est functioning of all the Pinchot coun-
ty organizations and the Governors
nomination in 1880 was clinched by the
Luzerne County vote.
But if the primary election results
are embarrassing to the Governor, the
Republican State organization, VIC
toriouS last Tuesday. also faces embar-
rassmentS to complicate the 1884 cam
paign. United States Senator James j.
Davis this week went on trial in New
York on charges of violating Federal
lottery laws. Next week trial is sched-
uled for State Senator John j. Mcclure
and 95 of his Delaware County political
associates on charges of conspiring to
violate prohibition laws by operating
protection ring. Mcclure, whose Della
ware County Republican organization
has been considered impregnable, had
frequently been mentioned for Governor
or United States Senator in recent
years.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Indiana Spending
100000 onRoads
For Aid of J0bless
Recruiting Expected to
Remore $4,000 From
Poor Relief Rolls.
BY HAROLD C. FEIGHTNER.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. September %.
The Indiana State Highway Depart
ment opened its purse strings to the
extent of ST 100000 this week in gl-
gantic movement toward unemployment
relief.
Approximately $4,000 persons who
have been carried on poor relief rolls
will be recruited at once into pick and
shovel gangs and placed to work mod
ernizing the States main highways.
The effort has a dual purpose. First,
to lift the burden thrust on local units
by the unprecedented poor relief de-
narfds, and secondly to eliminate traffic
hazards that took more than 400 lives
last year.
The workmen will be selected by the
same relief agencies that recruited the
members of Indiana'S contingent to the
Civilian Conservation CorpS-that is,
local representatives of the recently Or
ganized State welfare department. Only
those who have been on the relief rolls
will be eligible and in order to circum-
vent possible abuses the deadline for
eligibility was dated last Saturday.
30-Hour Week Fixed.
Rates of pay were fixed at 40 cents
an hour for 80 hours a week. However,
each man will be obliged to work one
week and lay off one in order to ac-
commodate the greatest number pos
sible. His weekly wage, therefore. Will
be only Sc, a figure but slightly Larger
than he received in the poor relief
lines.
The proposal to put the unemployed
to work carries with it total revision
Of basic highway plans. Most OF the
work the labor battalions will be called
upon to perform calls for the widening
ef highway shoulders to from 10 to II
feet so that costly traffic hazards can
be eliminated. Before the program
could be gotten under way highway engi-
neers were sent out to acquire addi-
tional right-of-way so that the main
arteries hereafter will be from 30 to
100 feet wide. Thus the roads have
climbed from 40 feet back in 1920 to 100
13 years later.
The made-work program is entirely
separate from another unemployment
relief plan, being engineered by the
State Highway Department In behalf OF
the Federal Government. Between
$4,000 and $4,000 more men will find
work as soon as the Federal bureau OF
roads approves approximately $50 con-
struction projects selected by the State
Evening star., 1933-09-24
COAL MEMS STAND
FELT BY CITIZENS
Failure of Alabama Oper.
ators to Sign Code Is Held
Disappointing.
BY ]. F. ROTHERMEL.
ia1nisnatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, September %
Refusal of Alabama coal operators to
sign the national coal code along with
operators in other sections has been a
disappointment to most residents OF
the State, although the trying position
Of operators in this section is pretty we'll
understood.
When word was received in Alabama
that the coal operators of the State
had not signed the code, the opinion
was held tnat eventually the operators
would fall in line with the national
program. Failure to do so Immediately,
it was declared, did not indicate lack
Of support for the general recovery
scheme
For several years prior to the be-
ginning of the depression in 1929, ac-
cording to the Alabama Coal Operators
Association, coal companies of the
State had been barely existing due to
overproduction among themselves and
competition with electricity and gasoline
as a source Of power. Since 1929, it is
added, the companies have kept alive,
if at all, only by subsisting on their
capital
Chief objection on the part of coal
mine owners to the code, according to
Hugh Morrow, president of the Ala
bama Mining Institute, was the basic
wage scale The base of 37l2 cents an
hours for this field is regarded as too
high, especially in comparison with the
basic pay of the steel and iron code
for Alabama of 25 cents.
The statement by Darius A. Thomas,
chairman of the Code Committee of the
Alabama operators, before the N. r. A.
hearing on the code in Washington that
Alabama operators cannot accept under
existing conditions the proposed basic
increase is generally regarded here
as more than merely grandStand play.
The plight of the Alabama coal opera
tors is intensified by the nearness of the
Alabama field to Muscle Shoals. The
Federal project will greatly multiply the
available electric current for industrial
use in this region.
Coal producers had already begun to
feel the loss of business OF plants that
have become electrified More of this
business is expected to be lost.
Railroads, the chief purchaser Of
coal, have greatly decreased their
orders as trains were cut off. The re-
suit has been anything but profitable
to the coal operator And now with
the code increasing the cost of produc-
ton SO cents a ton over the 1882 cost,
mine owners are naturally worried.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
BALTIMORE GETS
Z MORE PLANTS
ID Industries to Spend ST..
289,500 on Buildings
and Equipment.
BY J. c. DEPONAI.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
BALTIMORE, September 23.-Twelve
new industries and two expansions of
existing plants, representing an invest
ment in plant and equipment OF
$l,289, 500, are reported for August by
the Industrial Bureau, Association of
Commerce.
Among the new industries are two
ditilleries, one branch of the Frank
fort Distillery Co. of Kentucky and the
other the Maryland Distillery Co.
The Frankfort company will be
ready for operation by October l, ii
is said, and will have a capacity OF
about 12o gallons a day, manufacturing
both Bourbon and rye whiskies.
The Maryland company will erect 10
buildings on the Washington boule-
ward near ST. Dennis, construction be-
ginning Immediately
Legalizing the sale of beer has re-
suited in the employment of hundreds
of workmen. Four breweries are now
In operation here out of a dozen which
have been incorporated, and practically
Grafton shortly after the first of the
year.
Before prohibition Baltimore was one
Of the leading beer centers in the East,
over a score of breweries being in op-
Grafton
One of the chief benefciaries Of the
legalization Of beer, however, has been
the Crown Cork g. Seal Co., Inc, of
this city. Last week, it is reported,
the company booked orders for well
over a million gross of crowns. These
came from breweries already in opera
tion. Tentative orders have been re-
ceived from plants now being equipped
to start business.
Approximately 1000 licenses to sell
beer in Baltimore have been issued by
the Board CT Beer License Commis-
sioners since the sale of the 80 bev-
erage was authorized five months ago.
Harry c. Sanner. secretary of the
board, reported that at present more
than $500 licenses are in force, while
480 have been Cancelled.
As yet the board is not aware of its
procedure when the eighteenth amend
ment is repealed. 1t is certain that
it must await instructions from the
General Assembly. which is expected
to be called into special session by
Gov, Ritchie,
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Trend IL, Farming
Problem, Under
Relief Program,
Variables in Basic Indus.
try Makes Future Puz-
zle to Experts.
BY RUTHWELL DUNCAN.

opcCldI D1SpaICQ 10 Inc star
CHICAGO, September 23.-Future
trends in American agriculture are I'M
possible to determine because of the
variables in the basic industry. farm
and market experts throughout the
Middle West are saying.
Will the bonus of the wheat farmer
be larger than the earnings of his
idle wheat acres. which he will no.
use for commercial purposes? This is
the question now puZzling thousands
of farmers who are confused by the
growing complexity of their economic
situation.
The bonus of 20 cents a bushel is
now due to wheat farmers who reduce
20 nor less than Is per cent of the
average under cultivation from 1880 to
1882. The total bonus is to be about
% cents a bushel. the remainder to be
paid later or after the Government has
determined the total cost of admins
tering the allotment plan of the agri-
cultural adjustment act.
Some of the variables involved in the
agricultural relief puzzle as studied by
marketing experts and leaders are the
following:
The price of that portion Of the
wheat crop consumed in the United
oSe<sSo 40 w NC 0SSC4 ilAAAASd llOL OlIC(Lll
by the relationship between the demand
and the supply, nor by the changes in
the world price of wheat, but by the
relationship between the price of wheat
and that of certain non-agricultural
commodities
A short world crop and bumper crops
in this country in 1884 and 1885 nigh.
eliminate the necessity for the process
ing tax of 80 cents a bushel out OF
which the Government pays the farmer
his bonus.
The farmer who agrees to reduce his
acreage Is assured bonus of 20 cents
bushel. The cents of the remain
ing 80 cents, processing tax, is to b.
used to defray Federal administration
Of the allotment plan.
This % cents may become almost q
crop insurance in some communities
since it will be paid regardless Of
weather conditions.
In a petition to Gov Lehman the
Association Of Stock Exchange Firms
said that New York City has no pro-
prietary right to financial leadership.
It has achieved its leadership only by
rendering better service at less cost
than any competitor. Even brief
period Of burdensome taxation may put
New York at competitive disadvantage
which the efficiency of its present or
ganization viii not be able to over
come"
Evening star., 1933-09-24
DELAW4RE DUE
TO ACT ON u. S.
OFFER OF LOAN
Legislature VIII De-
eide Whether to AC-
cept SI0,OOO,0OO.
BY c. E. GRAY.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
WILMINGTON, Del, September %.
The Delaware General Assembly will
meet in special session beginning Octo-
Der 18 to sanction the States participa-
ton under the national recovery act.
A program of public works projects
totaling Sl0,000000 is expected to be
considered by the legislators, although
it is the hope of Gov. c. Douglass Buck
and other State leaders that the debt
which will be assumed by the State
under the 70 per cent repayment clause
will not exceed S2,500.000 However, it
is the purpose of the Governor to under
take public works projects which will
be extensive enough to assure every
citizen in the State work If they want
it. This program is intended to, avert
all necessity for the State to appro-
pirate any funds for relief this year.
Last year S2,000,000 was set aside for
this purpose.
At the front Of the State program
will be the installation of sewer systems
in the various towns which now are
without sanitary systems. The Governor
is said to favor the donation by the
State, cost free, of a sewage disposal
plant to each municipality which will,
on borrowed Federal funds, install
sewage system.
Efforts of the administration to have
the special session confined to the con-
sideration of public work projects only
NAV be thwarted, it appears. Already
indications are toward flood of bills
when the legislators sit. Among meas
ures expected to be brought up is All
expected attempt to liberalize the liquor
control act passed by the present Assem-
bly, Many interested persons assert the
present limitations on the liquor traffic
are too stringent and seek a loosening
of the restrictions before repeal is &C
conplished.
Another movement is for the revival
of the proposed constitutional amend
ment for separate Supreme Court in
the State This measure failed earlier
this wear. AS is requires approval of
two consecutive Legislatures and had
been passed in 1880 its proponents seek
to avoid the delay of waiting 4 years
for another opportunity to push it
through.
A survey of Delaware industries for
August just completed. shows wide
gains in employment during the last
year Pay rolls for August, 1888, show
an increase of 37.2 per cent over the
corresponding month of 1882. Against
the average employment for the 1923-25
period, employment now is at 94.2 per
cent
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Two More States Go Wet
Idaho and New Mexico Become 3Ofh and 31st
Join Wet Parade-Majority Light in Forme'
State, but Latter Piles Up 3.to.1 Lead.
BY THERMAN R. EVANS.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BOISE, Idaho, September 23-Al-
though by smaller wet majority than
that polled in other States which have
voted for repeal, Idaho fell in line this
week to join the ranks in the wet
parade, voting to against the eight
eenth amendment.
OF the States A counties only II
lined up against the repeal issue, and
Of these were in strongholds Of
the Latter Day Saints settlers who
came over from Utah.
Idaho will be forced to wait for q
vote upon repeal of its own State pro-
hibition amendment until the next gen.
eral election, which will not be held
until November, 1884.
Gov. G. Ben Ross controversy with
Secretary Of Interior Ickes over admin
istration Of the public works program
threatened to steal the spotlight from
the repeal election in the State this
week.
Ross declared that Federal red tape
Is holding up road construction In
Idaho and thereby Is denying jobs to
needy Idahoans. The Governor con-
tends that unless Federal funds are
Forthcoming Immediately to finance
public works projects value Of the pro-
gram win b seriously Affected,
Evening star., 1933-09-24
BY A. N. MORGAN.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SANTA FE, N. Mex, September 23.-
BY 3-to-1 majority, New Mexico dealt
an additional blow at the eighteenth
amendment in the special election this
week and lined up with the forces for
repeal, at the same time voting to
abolish the 15-year-old State bone-dry
statute.
Out of the States 27 counties only
2 voted against repeaLCurry and
Roosevelt-despite the strenuous cam
paign fight which had been waged by
the New Mexico Anti-Saloon League
and other dry groups throughout the
State.
Few States have come through the
depression as well as New Mexico If the
condition Of the banks is a true
barometer.
At the beginning of 1881 this State
had 81 banks, State and national. 1t
now has A open Only banks
were closed. Three others were merged.
Two of the A active banks are on q
restricted basis.
State Bank Examiner John Bingham
Is doubtful If any other State in the
country can equal this showing. De-
posits have fallen OF, it's true, said he,
but loans have been decreased pro-
portdonately and the total reserve Of the
State banks has been built up to 21.7
Per cent. The State law requires . re-
Serye of only II per cent. -
Evening star., 1933-09-24
sS THOMAS COMPERE.

Special Dist Hch to The Star.
n YEW YORK, September GA
nj strong reaction against both the
VI Democratic and Republican Or
/ ganizations In this city was
evident in the primary election
this week, and number of things that
couldn't be done" we're accomplished.
Probably the most important of these
was the victory of Chase Mellen, jr.,
over Samuel S. Koenig for the leader
ship of the Republican party in New
York County. Mr.. Koenig has been
Republican leader here for % years,
and under his direction the Republican
organization has degenerated to the
point that 1t now is not much more
powerful locally than the Socialist
party.
Mr.. Mellen waged his campaign on
the basis that the Republican party
here. under Mr.. Koenig. had become
little more than the tail to Tam
many's kite" and he promised to bring
about rebirth of the organization and
give a needed stimulus to the fusion
efforts to elect Maj. Fiorello H. La
Guardia as mayor in November Mr..
Evening star., 1933-09-11

BY the Associated Press.
The man who. for example, gets a
patent on his invention Of new eX-
pansible, chambertype motor receives
his Government 90 K" after the
bright, brown eyes of young woman
have gone over his plans.
Elizabeth Jane Newton might inspire
jealousy in her famous ancestor, Sir
Isaac Newton, discoverer Ct the laws Of
gravity, If he could see her at work.
All day she pores over intricate charts
and engineers drawings at the patent
examiners Office in the Commerce De-
partment. Each week she passes on
from 20 to 40 applications for patents
on inventions in the motor world.
Fascinated by Engines.
''They are complicated" Miss New
ton admits. but engines, especially the
internal combustion type, are the most
fascinating things know"
She began her training at Duke Uni
versity and then taught mathematics in
a North Carolina high school.
She appears any thing but the type
OF p<rson who understands just why
an engine performs its mysterious
functions. She speaks with a soft
Southern accent. Her auburn hair curls
softly about her face. But her desk is
a business like affair, where she pre-
sides over blue prints.
Just what is my job? Why, I inter-