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Evening star., 1933-12-12
PROSECUTION THREATENED.
Wagner Says Board Is Determined to
Have Fair Election.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An interference of Weirton Steel Co.
executives with a plant election which
the National Labor Board intends to
hold to select collective bargaining
representatives may be reported to the
United States Attorney General for
possible prosecution under the N. r. A
That was the notice which had been
served today on E. T. Weir, chairman
of the company, by Senator Wagner,
chairman of the Labor Board, after
receiving word the steel firm had
terminated its arrangement with the
board.
The board is going to carry out the
agreement" Chairman Wagner said
last night, referring to the pact be-
tween the board and the company
which settled strike several months
ago.
We are determined to have such a
fair election as is guaranteed by the
national recovery act, in which each
employe has the right to select a rep
resentative to deal with his employer
for purposes of collective bargaining .
Time and again, the Labor Board
chairman has insisted that no company
has anything to say about whether its
employees should hold any election OF
how it should be held.
The particular point of issue in the
Weirton case has been the method ol
nominating representatives. The board
has proposed the petition method. The
company has asked that nominations be
written on the ballot.
Jesse Miller and James F. Dewey, two
Labor Board officials, have been dis
patched to the mills to supervise the
balloting.
Wagner said he probably would have
additional comment after he received
the letter-probably tomorrow.
Evening star., 1933-12-12
SENATORS POSTPONE
STEVED0RE INQUIRY
Will Investigate Complaints
Against Subsidized Shipping |,
Companies Next Week.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Hearings scheduled for today by the
Senate Mail Investigating Committee on
Independent Stevedoring Co. complaints
against Government subsidized shipping
companies invading their field have
been postponed until later this week
or next.
Chairman Black, Democrat, of Ala
bama, has paid particular attention to
this phase of the inquiry into companies
holding mail contracts, scoring ir-
stances developed by the committee of
big profits accruing to subsidiary steve
doring concerns established with shoe
string" capital and assets.
Most of the shipping heads have ar
gued that it was in the interest of eff
cheney and good business for them to
have their own companies, but Black
holds such operations should be direct,
then, and not through affiliated organ
izations. The independents claim the
big companies are running their legiti-
mate business.
Evening star., 1933-12-12
COMPLIANCE BOARD,
QUITTING, HITS N. R. A.
Lowell Group Forced to Conclude
Enforcement Is Not
Desired"
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOWELL, Mass, December 12.-The
entire membership of the Lowell Com
pliance Board Of the N. R. A. yesterday
resigned in a letter to Gen. Hugh S
Johnson, National Recovery Admins.
traitor, decrying lack of cooperation and
assistance.
The seven board, members Informed
Gen. johnson that they had beer
forced to conclude that effective anc
prompt action in the enforcement ol
the N. r. A. is not desired either by
the State Recovery Board or by the
authorities at Washington"
P. A. O'Connell, Boston merchant anc
prominent member of the State Re-
covery Board, said he knew of noedis-
pute between his board and the Lowell
group.
I'VE cooperate with everybody, ano
Washington says we have the best boarc
in the country" said O'Connell.
Locally the board was known to have
been engaged in controversy with bar
bers. who insisted that the board, con-
! trary to its own views, take over juris-
| diction of the prices and hours of labol
of that business
Richard B. Walsh United State:
Commissioner for this district, anc
chairman of the board, declined to am.
phfy the contents of the letter to Gen
Johnson. Other members referred II
Walsh as their spokesman.
The board members letter to Gen
johnson said:
I'VE hereby tender our resignation.
as members Of the Lowell N. r. A
/ Compliance Board. We take this actor
not because we begrudge the time anc
effort necessary to accomplish the worl
required We gladly have given oul
time, and would continue to do so, but
we have been forced to conclude thai
/ effective and prompt action in the en-.
| forcement of the N. r. A. is not desired
either by the State Recovery Board Of
| by the authorities at Washington. We
| repeatedly have requested cooperation
| and assistance which has not been af.
forded us. We have been obliged to per.
Evening star., 1933-12-12
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

When George N. Peek, who hence
forth will be responsible for the bar
tering Of American farm products for
foreign wines and liquors, assumes his
new duties in the State Department,
he will have his hands full with a
complexity of questions which will take
tact and diplomacy to solve.
Foreign countries have been watch
ing for years for chance to send their
alcoholic products legally into this
country and are now somewhat puzzled
at the fact that they have been told
that they much purchase from the
United States, not products they actu-
ally need, but those of which America
has the greatest surplus.
The policy the administration in
tends to follow in the new bartering
system with foreign nations is one OF
disposing of the surplus of American
farm products in exchange for wine
and liquor quotas. Some countries, like
Great Britain are able 10 absorb Amer
ican farm products, but others. such
as France and Argentina would rather
purchase industrial prOouctS they need
than apples, hogs or rice.
Apples for Wine.
French Ambassador de Laboulaye
called at the State Department yeSter-
day to find out on what basis could
France export the 100000 gallons OF
wines. France could use at the present
time a large quantity of copper, yet
the administration is of the opinion
that the copper should be purchased In
the ordinary way. while the imports OF
French wines into the United States
should be compensated by the export
Of American apples.
Argentina, which was anxious tc
barter her wines for automobiles, was
informed that she would have to pur-
chase apples and rice in exchange fol-
her wine quota.
There are two bartering matters fol
the importation of Greek wines: one
is Samuel insult and the other hogs
and wheat
The Greek Minister in Washington
Charalambos Simopoulos, has been very
active in recent weeks to obtain large
quota for the Greek wines.
When he found out that Greece viii
be permitted to export to this country
only $4,000 gallons for period of foul
months. he cabled the sad news to his
government which Immediately thought
Evening star., 1933-12-12
TOLEDO FORMS s1,1OO,OO0
R. &c. LOAN AGENCY
Stock Set-Up Permits $11, ,O0O,O 900
U. S. Financing for Industries
and Merchants.

BY the Associated Press.
TOLEDO, Ohio. December 12-1n-
corporation of the Restoration Finance
Corporation. with a capital of 81 100 900
and 1000 shares of no par common
stock and with potential power Of
bringing 100000 Of governmental
financial aid to Toledo industries and
merchants, was announced here last
night
A portion of the capital already has
been subscribed, so that action may be
taken in a few days to complete the
organization by election Of directors and
officers
The Restoration Finance Corporation
would serve as agent for the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation and
would be able to borrow 10 times its
own capital. Notes of industry and
merchants must be approved by the
r. F. c., then details handled by the
local corporation. The borrower would
buy stock in the local corporation up to
10 per cent of the loan in the general
plan provided by the R. F. c. for aiding
industries.
Evening star., 1933-12-12
Peek Faces Task Of Diplomat
In Bartering on Liquor Quotas
Foreign Nations Learn They Must Buy
Surpluses-Greece Suspects Insult Af-
fair as Reason for Lou Allotment.

that they understood the reason for this
small quota. insult was informed by
the Greek authorities he could not re-
main in Greece after December 81
when his permit of residence expires.
Greeces Neighbors Clear.
Greece's neighboring countries which
also desire to obtain q foothold In the
American wine trade, are at ease. No
such complications as had befallen
Greece can occur to them.
'Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey have
extradition treaties with the United
States. Albania has just signed such
an agreement and rushed through its
ratification last month.
Greece hopes that insult, once out
of the country, the American Govern
ment will appreciate its gesture and
will find 1t possible to increase the quota
of the world-famous sweet Greek wines.
But there are other difficulties which
the new co-ordinator will have to solve
The quotas for the different countries
have been established according to the
pre-war figures when the geographical
division of the world was entirely
different from the present one.
Thus in compiling the quotas for the
former Austrian Hungarian Empire, q
more or less equitable repartition OF the
successor states had to be made
Hungary, which was component part
Of that empire and was the most i'm
portant wine producing state, is now
an independent kingdom and has tt
have a quota Of her own. based on the
total quota of the former dual empire
Palestine Overlooked.
Czechoslovakia and the small Re.
public of Austria must also have theil
share taken from that old quota. while
Yugoslayia and Rumania, which have
obtained slice of the old Austrian
Empire, are faced with the problem
that their quota is necessarily smaller
owing to the fact that the former
Austrian Hungarian provinces have
been added to their territories.
But, in the repartition Of the quotas
TO all these new states, the State De-
partment has overlooked the new State
of Palestine.
1t seems that the officials who were
handling this problem have forgotten
The famous Palestine wines, but it Il
certain that they have not forgotten
the existence of Palestine as a state.
This oversight has been forcefully
brought to their attention by strong
protest of the rabbiS who demanded 9
quota of Palestine wines. for the use II
synagogues alone, if the public were
not to show taste for the dry wine:
of that country.
Evening star., 1933-12-12
STEEL PLANT HEAD
DEF|ESU. BOARD
FIatIy Refuses to Follow
Rules Drafted for Labor
Election.
BY The Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, December IA Sc
rious test of the powers of the National
Weir, chairman of the Weirton Steel
Co., maintains a determined stand
against the boards rules for an elec-
tion of collective bargaining representa-
tives.
+ Flatly refusing to follow the rules the
board drafted for the labor election at
the companys three plants, Weir last
night asserted:
The board is out as far as the elec-
ton is concerned"
Informed that Senator Robert D
Wagner, board chairman, had said the
Attorney General would be asked to take
hand If necessary, Weir bluntly de-
clared: My letter stands"
In his letter to Senator Wagner. the
steel company head said I'VE must con-
slider any arrangements with you ter
minated and the election will proceed
in accordance with the rules adopted
by the employees organization"
At primary" elections in the firms
plants at Weirton and Clarksburg. w
Va, and Steubenville, Ohio, yesterday
employees nominated representatives to
be voted upon at a general" election
Friday The board had declared against
such plan, ruling that nominations
must be made by petition.
The petition method had been urged
by the Amalgamated Association Of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. American
Federation of Labor affiliate opposed to
the Weirton company Cnion.'
Weir announced last night that "at
10 pm, 8.243 bona fide employees out OF
a total OF IL ,463 had exercised
their rights under the plan of employe
representation to vote secretly for
nominees of their own choosing" Union
leaders disputed the Weir claim.
Evening star., 1933-12-12
|A.A.A.. ADHERENCE
URGED BY WALLACE.
Secretary Admits PossibiI-
ity of Changes, However,
in Talk to Farmers.
Continued From First Page.)

unwarranted. Unless it hustles, the
Government has more hay down now
that 1t will get up before it rains.
Favors Profit System.
"The foundation of the whole struc-
ture (of the American Government)
from the first has been respect for
private property rights. and the sacred
ness of contracts. Legitimate profits
have always been regarded in this coun-
try as a proper reward for individual
initiative, industry and thrift. know
of no substitute for such traits. I am
in favor Of the profit system; but am
in favor of starting with the farmer.
There is abroad in the land a
| propaganda of more or less Importance
| for doings away with the profit sys-
tenn. This means no more and no less
than doing away with the institutions
under which we have all grown up
and prospered more or less. I am
against the racketeers of high finance
as much as am against the racketeers
| in the underworld. But the remedy
lies not in destroying our institutions.
OF farm strikers:
Il do not protest against the hot
! impatience of some farm leaders.
do protest against their methods. be-
cause 1 think they are futile. And
| protest against a strike aimed at the
President Of the United States and his
| administration an administration
which honestly is endeavoring to dc
all that agriculture has asked of pre-
Nous administrations: That is to say
restore equality to agriculture"
Explains Farm Loan Act.
Albert S. Goss, land bank commits.
sioner, in an address prepared for de.
livery before the convention, said thu
Federal farm loan act resulted from
plans advanced by the farmers anc
from commission sent to Europe t
study the farm loan systems there.
AS finally developed, he said it work.
! like this:
AN applicant applies to the loca
Farm Loan Association for a loan Tht
| association appraises the land If h
/ proves to be man of worth, they cleo
him to membership and indorse hi
mortgage note, whereupon the applica
ton is forwarded to a Federal Lane
Bank. The applicant agrees to take
per cent of his loan in stock in thu
association applies to the Federal Lane
Bank 1t agrees to take S per cent II
stock in the Federal Land Bank"
Finally, he said. the loan application
passes through four stages. and bond
may be issued upon the security offered
In the end the bonds are offered TO tn,
public in order to obtain the funds
Federal money never being used t
finance the loans.
The federation apparently wa.
headed today toward 100 per cent SUP
port of the administration recover,
| program.
No note Of opposition was heard yes
terday as the 1000 delegates listened u
a message from President Roosevelt
telling or the progress toward stabilit,
already achieved, and then heard thei;
own leader, Edward A. O'Neal, speal
OF the Federal farm adjustment act il
terms of the Magma Charta of agri
culture"
Two Resolutions Up.
Before the three-day conventio,
comes to an end tomorrow the delegate
are expected to give their approval t,
two resolutions, reported in the process
Evening star., 1933-12-12
TEST PLANE FUSELAGE
Air Corps to Study Metal Mono.
coque Body for Static.

DAYTON, Ohio, December II CD.-
A Boeing transport plane is at the
material division of the Air Corps,
Wright Field, to receive static testing
of its metal monocoque fuselage in con-
nection with an inquiry being con-
Quoted by the Aeronautics Branch, De-
partment of Commerce
The plane at Wright Field for testing
has been flown between 1900 and !, 400
hours. Brig. Gen. H. c. Pratt, chief
of the material division, said the plane
is here solely for the purpose Of run
ming static tests. He did not comment
on what Air Corps engineers hope to
prove or find as a result of the tests.
Evening star., 1933-12-12
WIDOW OF ROOSEVELT
ATTENDS RECEPTION
Greets 500 Members of Woman's
Memorial Association With
Son and His Wife.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 12.-Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt came in from Saga
more Hill yesterday for one of her rare
appearances in public-a reception at
Roosevelt House, the East Twentieth
street birthplace of her famous husband.
Wearing. as usual, simple gown of
black crepe, with black veil. the widow
of the President greeted 500 members
of the Women's Roosevelt Memorial
Association, standing in the reception
line beside her son and daughter in
law, Col. and Mrs. Theodore Roose-
welt. jr.
Mrs. Roosevelt is 70. This is the
first time in several years that she has
attended the memorial receptions In
honor of "T. R."
Evening star., 1933-12-12

of formation in meetings of the Com
mittee on Resolutions.
One is reported to call upon the Presi-
dent to continue his program without
deviation and the other to request Con-
gress to consider a program for the
monetization of silver.
In his message President Roosevelt
tol; the farmers that their support was
necessary to insure the success of his
plans.
The immediate response to the ap-
peal was an announcement by ONeal
that the recovery program would con-
tinue to receive the support of the fed
Grafton.
Evening star., 1933-12-12
British Subjects in Want.

Five hundred British subjects. regis
tered as unemployed in Argentina, are
reported to be in critical circumstances
because Of the dwindling Of charity
funds which have been supporting
them.
Evening star., 1933-12-12
WOODIN TO GO FISHING
Plans to Join Gov. Gales of So
moro. Mex, on Thursday.

NoGALES, Ariz.. December 10 Op).-
William Woodin, United States Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, probably will go
Thursday to Guaymas, Sonora, where
he will join Gov. Rodolfo Elias Gales
Of Sonora for a fishing expedition on
the Gulf Of California, Benjamin Wat
son, public relations director for the
Mexican state announced yesterday.
Secretary Woodin, who IS Wintering
Evening star., 1933-12-12
Psychoanalytic Group to Meet.

The mid-Winter meeting of the
American Psychoanalytic Association
will open Tuesday, December 26, at the
Shoreham Hotel, with leading psyche
analytic physicians from all parts OF
the country in attendance, according IL
an announcement today by DR.. Ernest
E. Hadley of Washington, secretary oi
the association.
Evening star., 1933-12-12

in Tucson. was waiting for approval
from his physician. He Is reported to
be suffering from a throat ailment.
Mrs. Woodin and several friends plan to
accompany him.
Evening star., 1933-12-12

form our work in an atmosphere of
criticism which has been annoying and
embarrassing. Consequently we believe
that the interests Of everyone concerned
will be better served by our retirement" :"
Evening star., 1933-12-12
Cleveland Lifts Liquor Ban.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, December 12 up.
City council last night repealed the
city's ordinance against sale Of liquor.
Evening star., 1933-12-12

Before the three-day convention
comes to an end tomorrow the delegates
are expected to give their approval to
two resolutions. reported in the process
Evening star., 1933-11-10
DOLLAR is STEADIED.
Shows Recovery by SIackening of Gold
Price Pace.

NEW YORK, November 10 (Pl-The
dollar stiffened in foreign exchange
dealings today, as the r. F. c. slack
ened the pace Of It's boosting the gold
price, actually putting todays price a
little under the London market.
This was interpreted in several quar-
terS In Wall Street as indicating a de-
sire to reduce the value of the dollar
in somewhat more orderly fashion
than its abrupt drop yesterday.
Some Of the commodities continued to
advance in early dealings in the specu-
Iative markets. Cotton rose 40 to 65
cents a bale at the start. The stock
market turned dull. however, and prices
were barely changed from yesterdays
final levels. In bonds: U s. Govern
ment issues again sagged, however.
The r. F. G. pushed its gold price
up only cents to $500 an ounce. On
the basis of the dollar rate in London
of $513 to the pound, the London price
of gold was $33.26 an ounce, while on
the basis Of the sterling opening in New
York at $5.l6H, the London metal price
was S3347 an ounce
The sterling rate in New York quick
ly reacted, however, reaching $5.11k,
which was x cent under yesterdays
close.
The gold currencies also slipped back
a little in terms of dollars. The French
franc at 6.29 cents was off .o2la Of a
cent.
The dollar in relation to foreign cur
rencies appeared to be conforming more
accurately to the level indicated by the
r. F. c. gold price than at any time
since the gold control program was
started
The gold price of s33.2o indicated
dollar of 62.26 per cent of its old
parity. while the mid-morning rate of
629 cents to the franc indicated a
dollar level at 62.32 per cent of its old
parity.
Evening star., 1933-11-10
ONE DIES IN CRASH
AS HEIRESS ELOPES
Brother-in-Law of Bride, Kin Of
Patent Medicine Millionaire,
Killed in Speeding Car.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AURORA. Ill, November 1o.-Mrs.
Merry Fahrney ker-Pickering, Oak
Park heiress, eloped early today with
Frank Eiszner of River Forest and q
short time afterward their speeding au-
tomobile overshot a sharp turn near
Plainfeld and was wrecked, killing
Eismer's brother Donald, 25.
The couple had called at the home
of Miss Ruth Chamberlin, deputy clerk
OF Kane County, at 1880 am. and OBJ
tanned a marriage license. The bride
gave her name as Miss Merry Picker
ing" A few days ago she bade fare
well to Count George di Georgia OF
Chile at a New York dock and then
came home to ask her parents II
she might follow him to South Amer
lea and be married. She was refused.
Miss Chamberlin admitted she had
promised not to reveal the issuance OF
q license until Monday.
A Plainfeld policeman, who searched
the wrecked automobile, found a mar
riage certificate signed by Justice OF the
Peace E. M. Enderson OF Aurora
Five persons were in the car, which
apparently was driven by Norman
Peterson, an automobile salesman OF
Chicago. All were attended by DR..
John r. Finkle at Plainheld- Eiszner
was bruised and his bride was not
seriously hurt Noel Seeburg OF Cm-
cago suffered a possible skull fracture.
An inquest was ordered.
Mrs. Parker Pickering, a 23-year- -old
divorce, was the granddaughter OF the
late Dr. Peter Fahrney, patent medi-
cine manufacturer.