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Evening star., 1933-08-25
REOPEN|NG
POLICY IS ASSA|LED.
Vandenberg, Detroit Hearing
Witness, Says Liquidity De-
mand Was Mistake.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, August 25-United States
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Re-
publican, Michigan. declared before
the one-man bank grand jury today
that the one great mistake of the
Federal Government" in its banking
policy following the national bank
holiday, was its "insistence on liquid
ity instead Of solvency."
Testifying of Washington events pre-
ceding the famous Michigan banking
holiday before the jury investigating
the closing Of two local national banks,
the junior Michigan Senator declared
the Government had forced apprais-
ais to be made on the wrecked values
Of an utterly depressed market"
The whole emphasis of the Govern
ment's policy was on l1quidity," he
said. That spelled doom for thou
sands Of banks And. in the end. a 100
per cent liquid bank is only a ware
house for money-it is not bank. 1t
cannot function as bank"
Says Purpose Defeated.
In sharp contrast to the fiery de-
nunciations that came yesterday from
the Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin,
crusading priest and banking critic,
who gave two days Of testimony, Sena-
tor Vandenberg, in quiet voice, said
"the very end which the Government
sought was defeated by its insistence
on liquidity"
He related conference at the White
House on February 9-flve days before
the Michigan holiday - concerning
knowledge that the Union Guardian
Trust Co.. Of Detroit, was seeking
$65. 900, 900 loan. Herbert Hoover, then
President, he said, was greatly dis
turbed" over the Detroit situation. and
felt it was necessary to put out the
potential Detroit conflagration in order
to prevent a forest fire" The loan to
the trust company, however. could not
be granted, he said, because figures sub
mitted by the r. F. c. indicated the
institution was insolvent.
District Worst Victim.
The witness said that in a study of
the Nations banking situation on
March 20, he found the seventh Federal
Reserve district, centering in Chicago
ana ncludmg Detroit, was suffering
much worse" than any of the other II
districts.
o. that date. he said, there were
1907 closed banks in the United States
containing s2,715,000,000, and of this
enormous sum. approximately one third
or $685., 900, ,000-was in the seventh
district.
In survey on May g. he said there
were 1.210 closed banks in the country.
containing $4,000, 100000 in frozen de-
posits, of which more than third
$3.50 900, ,000-was in the seventh dis
trict
The Michigan Senator declared It
was his opinion that it was impossible
for an appraiser to come into a
strange city" and make anything like
a fair or intelligent appraisal" Of a
banks assets.
Investigators Silent.
Federal officials today declined to
make any comment on statements of
the Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin.
crusading priest, who told the State
bank grand jury yesterday that there
will be Federal indictments" Of off,
cials of the closed banks
We are continuing our investigation
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1933-08-25
INJUNCTION ASKED
ON MILK LICENSES
1000 Pennsylvania Farmers
Declare Action of Govern
ment Unconstitutional.

Representatives Of some 1000 Penn
sylvania dairy farmers filed in District
Supreme Court today a petition for an
injunction to prevent the Secretary Of
Agriculture from enforcing the terms of
license defining conditions under
which they may operate
1t is asserted that the license, which
became effective last midnight, is un-
constitutional. The license was issued
under authority OF the farm relief act.
Justice Daniel w. ODonoghue signed
an order requiring Secretary Of Agri-
culture Wallace to show cause Septem-
Der l why the farmers petition should
not be granted.
First Suit Filed.
This is the first suit filed on behalf
Of the farm producers-supposedly the
principal beneflciaries Of the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration.
The suit was filed by the Capital
City Milk Producers Association. Inc,
of Mechanicsburg, Pa. representing
more than 1000 dairy farmers in
Adams. Cumberland, Dauphin, Frank
lin, Lebanon Perry and York Counties.
The license under which they operate
is known as the License for Milk
Philadelphia Milk She'd
The suit charges this license. in
violation of the Constitution. arbitrarily
fixes the prices that other persons,
associations or corporations may law
fully pay to the plaintiff for its prod
ucts and to fix a stated price at which
the products must be sold to consumers.
1t is asserted that such pretended
power of control and direction over the
business and affairs of those who deal
with the plaintiff will restrict and cir
cumscribe the dairy business OF the
plaintiff and its members so IS to re-
suit in part, If not wholly, in the ruin
and destruction Of its business.
Demand Declared Disregarded.
The suit, filed through Attorneys
Nugent Dodds and Neil Burkinshaw,
further asserts that the license i'm
poses arbitrary and unequal prices and
arbitrary and unequal limitations upon
quantities that may be sold by plain
tiff's several members, without regard
to demand, or to the natural and or
dinary needs of the area in which the
products are produced and marketed"
Among additional charges, 1t IS as
serted that the act unlawfully dele
gates legislative power to the Secre-
tary of Agriculture, takes private prop
erty from the farmers without just
compensation, abridges their liberty
and right to contract for the sale of
their products and attempts to make it
a criminal offense for customers of the
plaintiff to purchase milk and cream
from the plaintiff at prices satisfactory
to both. Similar allegations were made
regarding the license. which derives its
authority from the act.
The court is asked to declare both
the license and the act unconstitutional
and void.
Evening star., 1933-08-25
TRADE AID
MOVE RAISES FEAR
Economic Help to Austria and
Hungary May Create
Complications.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, August 25-Diplomatic cir
cles predicted today that the creation
of free zones at Trieste for both Austria
and Hungary will result from the meet
ing last week end between Premier
Mussolini and Chancellor Dollfuss Of
Austria.
Such free zones would permit lower
overhead on the imports and exports Of
the two nations. Trieste was a free
zone for Czechoslovakia after the war,
but that nation did not use that Italian
port, which is at the head of the Adri-
attic.
1t was reported that Austria and
Hungary will have the right to form
mercantile headquarters at Trieste, but
the general belief is that neither coun-
try is in position to acquire fleet.
Lumber Among Items>
Premier Mussolini is reported to have
agreed on preferential treatment for
Austrian goods entering Italy and on
the purchase of increased amounts of
such goods. Among the items men
toned in this connection is lumber
which would be used for government
owned enterprises, such as railroads.
Italy, Austria and Hungary are re-
ported to have made a deal by which
Italy will absorb the remainder Of
Hungary's wheat surplus in return for
Hungary's granting to Italy some Of
the Hungarian economic position in
Austria.
1t was emphasized that no treaty was
signed by Premier Mussolini and Chan
cellor Dollfuss when they met at Ric-
clone, and most of the above points re-
main to be negotiated.
Evening star., 1933-08-25

detic Survey An immense amount Of
water was pouring into the river from
Rock Greek and the Anacostia River
at the time of the normal tide crest
and the wind was behind the rising
waters.
Weather Bureau predictions are that
the bulk of the rain-swollen waters
from the upper Potomac will be pass
ing Washington late today at the time
of low tide If it should be delayed
until nearly midnight. when the tide
will be at its crest, the waters might go
considerably higher
The highest tides along the coast,
it is probable, never will be known
since the likelihood is that some of the
tide gauges were washed out Ordinary
high tide should have been only 34
feet above low water Wednesday night
Army engineers today were planning
an official inspection Of the extent Of
erosion due to the storm, especially
along the New Jersey coast
Evening star., 1933-08-25
MARKETS SPURRED
BY RESERVE POLICY
Stocks Rise 81 to IS a Share.
Wheat Up 8 Cents and
Cotton Jumps 81.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 25.-Stocks had
their best rally Of the month today in
response to the fresh credit expansion
activities Of the Federal Reserve
System.
Leading issues pushed up 81 to more
than IS and were joined by many of
the prominent commodities Wheat,
aided by the London agreement. closed
with net gains of more than to 5
cents a bushel. Cotton gained 81 a
bale.
Shares, boosted by a revival of in
flationary psychology. rallied smartly
at the opening. After a period of quiet
trading and narrow fluctuations, the
advance was resumed in the last half
hour when the days best prices were
made The tape fell few minutes in
arrears. All groups were strong.
Evening star., 1933-08-25
BY the Associated Press.


McALESTER, Okla, August 25.-An
18-year-old farm boy, the youngest of
the Al criminals who have died in Okla
homa's electric chair, was executed
today with his uncle for the murder
of the latter's 15-year-old bride. The
boy, George Oliver. preceded his kins-
man, Claude Oliver, %, in death.
The two, Southern Oklahoma farmers,
paid the extreme penalty for killing
Della, Claude's bride Of three months.
in an effort to collect the $4,000 in
surance policy they had obtained on
her life.
This is bad" said George. as he was
strapped in the chair. Just previously
he had told the crowd:
II did crime and now must die
for it. feel like am going to Heaven.
Young men-crime doesn't pay"
The divers, who admitted they had
plotted the crime even before Claude
was married, beat the girl to death
with tire tools and pushed the automo-
Evening star., 1933-08-25
FEARS RAISED HERE.
Mussoiini Aid Exceeds Usual Standard
by League.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
The news that Italy has decided to
help politically and economically Aus
tria and Hungary has caused more
apprehension than relief in well in
formed quarters in Washington
1t is pointed out that Mussolini has
taken this decision on his own initia-
tive, without consulting his associates
in the four-power pact, especially
France
The help he is offering the eco
nomically stricken central European
countries exceeds by far the usual So
called relief" usually granted by the
League of Nations
II Duce went out of his way with
the idea of assistance and Is affording
Austria and Hungary not only finan-
clal help and very advantageous
preferential tariff, but also the facilities
of the port of Trieste, an Austro- Hun
garian port until 1919, from where both
Danubian states will be able to export
their surplus products. Furthermore,
he will assist both countries to build
up an adequate merchant marine to
carry their exports to the best markets,
which are in the Near East.
From purely disinterested point of
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star., 1933-08-25
STORM SUBSIDIES,
WITH Al KNOWN
DEAD IN ITS WAKE
Toll Expected to Increase
in Check of Wrecked
Homes, Boats.
MOTOR SHIP SOLARINA
MISSING WITH II ABOARD
Hundreds Homeless in Southwest
Observation-Disclosures
Camp Relieved.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Atlantic Seaboard's terrifying
storm had blown itself out today, but
from Northern New York to North
Carolina there remained devastating
floods, stupendous property damage and
. mounting death list
The death toll reached AZ as reports
from hard-hit areas trickled in and the
prospects were that it would go even
higher
Coast Guard cutters still sought the
motor ship Solarina, 225-ton craft
missing off the Carolinas with IL per-
sons aboard. The ship, bound from
Winyah Bay, S. c., to Southport, S. c.,
first was reported safe in a South
Carolina cove. but today checkup dis
closed nothing of her.
There also was possibility that some
smaller craft off Virginia were missing
and that a thorough investigation of
some waterlogged resorts would dis
close additional casualties.
Hundreds were made homeless in
Southwest Philadelphia as the swirling
waters inundated an area of 10 square
miles. The Philadelphia Airport also
was under water
Water was receding from the ma
rooned Camp Achvach for boys and
girls at Godeffroy, N. Y, and Port
Jervis police reported there no longer
was any danger to lives there
The body of a boy drowned in New
Jersey last Sunday was recovered this
morning.
After leaving New York the storm,
considerably lessened in intensity,
struck out over Nova Scotia and the
Gulf Of st. Lawrence. causing a violent
electrical disturbance but little dam
age.
The death toll by States stood as
follows: New York. 2; New Jersey, 10;
Pennsylvania, IA; Maryland, 10. and
Virginia, IL.
The tail-end of the fatal tropical
storm had blown over Nova Scotia to-
day and was apparently heading out
over the Gulf of st. Lawrence The
storm brought with it a violent cleo
trical disturbance. but caused no eX-
tensive damage at Halifax. 1t was pre-
ceded by heavy rains there
Evening star., 1933-08-25
OKLAHOMA EXECUTES YOUTH. IL:
CHAIR UNITES FATHER AND SON

bile containing her body into a ditch
near Davis. Okla. last November 8.
Meet in Death House.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga, August 25
R).-A father and son who had not
met in 81 years were reunited in the
shadow Of the electric chair at the
State prison farm here
Andrew Mccullough, grizzled Fayette
County farmer, was in the death cell
facing electrocution today as the
murderer Of w. B. Baker, Atlanta
capitalist, when his son Roy, serving
short sentence for misdemeanor, was
brought in to see him.
"Roy?" said Mccullough as the son
entered. Eyes, Papa" the younger man
replied. and they grasped hands. their
eyes dimmed with emotion. Then as
the son was taken from the death
chamber, Mccullough sighed, "and it
took this (motioning toward the door
that leads to the chair to bring US
together again."
Alvin, another son of Mccullough. is
serving life term on q charge Of
participating in the Staying for which
his father y to be electrocuted.
Evening star., 1933-08-25
HOUSES FLOAT ABOUT.
Quick Recovery at Salisbury and Ocean
City Impossible.

Sity 1upuoSlUIc.
By Staf Correspondent of The Star.
OCEAN CITY, Md, August 25-
Southern Delaware and the Eastern
Shore of Maryland we're recovering to-
day from the devastating effects of the
worst storm that has struck the penin-
sula within the last 80 years or more.
But in the Ocean City and Salisbury
areas recovery was impossible, and in
habitants began to readjust themselves
in whatever manner they could.
Although the entire Del-Mar-Va
Peninsula. south of Dover, Del, was
ravished by the hurricane-like storm
which did untold thousands of dollars
damage to homes, thoroughfares, rail-
roads and communication systems, only
two casualties were reported.
The storm hit the peninsula Sunday,
but its full fury was not felt in Ocean
City and Salisbury until Tuesday night.
BY Wednesday morning, both towns
were flooded and communication with
the outside world was extinct.
peninsula was lashed by rain-laden
winds but Ocean City got the worst of
it. and by a considerable margin.
Whipped by the Atlantic Ocean on
one side and Sinepuxent Bay on the
other, the Eastern Shore resort city
was at the mercy Of the elements from
the time the storm began until it ended
Waves Sweep Boardwalk.
High waves from the ocean swept
over the boardwalk washing portions
of it away At the same time, the
angry waters of the bay surged
through the town from the other SIDE
causing the walls of wooden buildings
to buckle like cardboard. A new chan
mel was cut from the ocean to the
sound just south of the town.
Houses and other buildings rose with
Continued on Page 3, Column A.
Evening star., 1933-08-25
MELON SENT PRESIDENT

TARBORO, N. c.. August 25 P.-
President Roosevelt is going to get one
Of the finest watermelons grown in
North Carolina this year.
Lee Ruffin, winner Of innumerable
prizes for his fine melons, shipped one
weighing 121 pounds to the Presi-
dent today. Rufin exhibited six weigh
ing o total Of 653 pounds here.
Evening star., 1933-08-25
$500 AIDED BY STORM
Work Provided for Unemployed on
D. C. Relief Rolls.

Washingtons recent storm provided
made work" for about $500 unem-
ployed persons on District relief rolls.
There was no addition to the relief
rolls. but the men who had been as
signed to work with the various District
departments have been temporarily set
to clearing debris from streets, remov-
ing dangerous trees, cleaning sewers
and other similar tasks.
The men get standard rate of
$3.50 q day for this work.
Evening star., 1933-08-25
Limited Blue Eagle
Use Is Permitted
Hard.Hit Firms
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PTe6S.
A provisional use Of the Blue
Eagle insignia by stores and fac
tories which claim special hard
ships would be suffered through
full compliance with the Presi-
dents agreement, it was decreed
today by the Recovery Admins
tration.
Thomas S. Hammond, executive
director Of the N. r. A. CAM
paign division, ruled that a white
stripe with the word provisional"
printed upon it should be pasted
across the Blue Eagle in such
establishments pending decision
on whether the exemptions asked
would be accepted. After de-
cision, either the bar may be
removed or the eagle will have
to be taken down.
Evening star., 1933-08-25
ARMY AIR POST BLAZE
CAUSES $1,000, 900 LOSS
Photo and Radio Buildings at
Chanute Field Swept by Flames
Started in Former.

BY the Associated Press.
RANTOUL, Ill. August 25.-Fire Of
unexplained origin swept through the
photographic and radio equipment
buildings on Chanute Field today. caus-
ing damage which Air Corps officials
estimated at S1000,000.
The fire started in the Photographic
building and burned out in As minutes.
The fire fighters aided by volunteers,
saved other buildings.
officials said the large stores Of film.
Photographic and radio equipment and
chemicals made the damages SO high.
Evening star., 1933-08-25
Gen. Camille Levi Dead.

BAYONNE, France, August Is R.-
Gen. Camille Levi, schoolmate CT former
President and Premier Raymond Poin-
care, died today at the age of 72 Be-
fore the war Gen. Levi published q
military work predicting the German
invasion through Belgium
Evening star., 1933-08-25
FACTORY CONFISCATED
Chinese Seize Concern for Using
Japanese Materials.

HONGKONG, China, August IS
R).-The Executive Council of the Ma
tional Salvation Corps of the Canton
government today ordered the confis-
cation of the Namwah match factory
for using japanese materials The fac
tory will be sold and proceeds will be
devoted to an aerial defense fund of
the corps.
The council also warned operators of
Hongkong river steamers against hand
ling japanese coal
Evening star., 1933-08-25
Corporal Charged With Possessing
Army Secrets.

PANAMA. August 25 P.-Corpl.
Ralph Osman of Brooklyn, NJ Y, will
be tried before a military court next
Monday on charge of possessing mill
tary secrets.
Maj. Charles R. Finley said an in
vestigaticn showed Corpl. Osman had
Communistic connections and no foreign
power was involved In the case.
Evening star., 1933-08-25
DISTRESSED CREW SAVED
Japanese Trawler Reported Foun-
derine Off Indo-China Coast.

MANILA August Is R.-The Radio
Corporation of America station here
picked up distress signals today saying,
"Molnoyama Maru laundering, East
100 40, North 17.13; saved all crew."
The location given Is of the east
coast Of Indo- China. The Momoyama
Maru is a steel trawler of 423 gross tons
and Kobe, Japan, is her home port.
The number of men In her crew was
not reported.
Evening star., 1933-08-25

Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1933-08-25

bile containing her body into a ditch
near Davis. Okla last November 8.
Evening star., 1933-08-25

@. .. Weather Bureau ForecastV
Fair tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; not
much change in temperature; gentle West'
shifting to southwest winds
Observation-Disclosures, IS. at noon tooay'
lowest, 68, at $50 am. today.
Full report on page 9.
Evening star., 1933-08-25

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Continued on Page 2, Column S.
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FACES MILITARY COURT

Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-17
FOREST ARMY
STARTS WORK
By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN
United Press Staff Correspondent

LURAY, Va, April II. = Eerie
fastneSses of Massanutten mountain
were hidden in mist today as 200
city youths, President Roosevelt's s
first battalion of $1-a-day amateur
foresters, approached trails that few
white men have walked.
Happy to find work at last, the
contingent rumbled over mountain
highways in motor buses from Fort
Washington, Md, where they spent
two weeks building up their muscle
and getting used to outdoor life.
Ignoring tales of colonial ghosts,
they came to build camp at
Powells fort. 1t is a place so iso-i
lated that even the residents OF
this highland village know little
about it. Nothing has been done
for them. They must start from
scratch as the pioneers did two
centuries ago.
The camp will be a model for
cantonments which will house ESQ.,
600 of the Presidents recruits in
other national forests.
LIE Guy youths Will explore 1Or-
est so vast and SO fortified with
rivers and precipices that George
Washington once exclaimed "If I
lose the revolution everywhere else
l shall take refuge in Powell's fort"
Descendants of the same brown
bears that the Indians hunted still
lurk in Massanutten's glens. Wild
deer scurry across the gray slate
slopes.
The only entrance to this wilder
ness is road of mud, precipitous
and slippery. At the end CT the IT.
mile trek from Luray is clearing
in the woods, where the amateur
foresters will build their tent homes
for the next six months.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-17
LIBRARIAN At
COAST MEET

Mss Romaine Richmond, county
librarian, reports the state conven-
ton of the California Library asso-
citation held April 9-12 inclusive in
Oakland and which she attended.
Sessions were held in the Hotel
Oakland and the first day was de-
voted to the county Librarians who
considered problems resulting from
salary and budget cuts. That eve
ming the county librarians banquet
was held at which librarians and
businessmen of the district ex-
pressed their views on conditions
as affecting county libraries.
'The Challenge of the Times"
was the general theme of the con-
vention which was attended by del
egates Nom city, county, special
and school libraries of the state.
Herbert Hoover was made an
honorary member due to his fine
work in his recent survey on trends
of the times.
While in Oakland, Miss Rich
mond saw Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Bueh-
ner and their infant son. Mrs.
Buehner will be remembered by her
many friends as the former Sue
Pope, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. R.
P. Pope of this city.