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The Washington times., 1933-09-26
FORD COST CAR
FINDS NRA MUM

Recovery Administration Off
cials today would not comment
officially on the report that
Henry Ford plans to offer an
improved model at cost for a
period, but it was pointed out he
could do this without violating
the automobile code.
J The code, subscribed to by all
other manufacturers, does not
contain single unfair trade
practice" provision. Thus a
manufacturer may, if he wishes,
sell at cost, below cost, or even
give away his product.
The code does. however, con-
tain line in which its signers
state they contemplate" the pos
sibility it might become necessary
to supplement" the code with
such additional provisions as the
President may approve.
Hence, if the necessity" arose,
selling at cost or below a certain
percentage above cost might be
deemed an unfair trade practice,
and provision to this effect could
be inserted into the code, with the
Presidents approval.
The Washington times., 1933-09-26
3%H

great opportunity. 1t is also in
duStry's.
"It provides a meeting ground
for the two, formerly mutually
antagOnistic, where they can get
together and resolve their diff
ferenceS. BY the stroke of a
pen this administration accom-
pIished through this act what
the refOrmerS and labor leaders
have been working at for fifty
years.
again, in the abolition Of
child labor, decades of endeavOr
have borne fruit overnight"
The recently appointed member
of the NRA Mediation Board has
the greatest faith in the power OF
arbitrating disputes that arise
under NRA. Although she de-
plores the $14 minimum wage OF
codes, she says it is a start.
She considers such men as Don
aid Richberg in the NRA excellent
workers in the interest Of labor.
Likewise, she praises Governor
and Mrs. Pinchot, of her home
State, as real friends of labor"
And for her old friend, Frances
The Washington times., 1933-09-26
Ford Continues
Silence on NRA

DETROIT, Sept. 26 Q.N.SO. f.
The enigma of Dearborn main
kained his canny silence today as
the local unit of the National
Recovery Administration prepared
to forward to Washington COM
plants charging violation of the
recovery act by the Ford Motor
Company.
A. j. Barnaud, Michigan Depart
ment of Commerce chief. ruled
late yesterday that all complaints
against the Ford company made
to the Dearborn NRA Compliance
Board must be relayed to Wash
ington for action.
Since Henry Ford has not
signed the NRA automobile code.
Barnaud said, the local compli-
ance board has no jurisdiction
over the Ford company and may
not hold hearings on Ford COM
nlaintS.
The Washington times., 1933-09-26
z DEAD, z SHOT.
NN.Y. BRAWLS

NEW YORK, Sept. 26 G.N.SO.
Two men were shot and killed
and two others were seriously
wounded early today in two
brawlS in Brooklyn.
Edward Ocheshinsky, 43, a
bartender, was shot and killed by
one of four men who entered the
place and after drinking quietly
started to leave. Two men,
whose names police declined to
reveal and who were in the back
room at the time of the shooting,
were being held for questioning.
Police also said an automobile in
which the quartet arrived at the
place had been abandoned and
was being examined for finger
prints or other clues.
The other victim was Joseph
Gill, 81, shot through the heart
shortly after he left a beer
garden with Joseph Quinn, %,
who was found lying nearby, a
bullet wound just under his
heart.
Near the pair lay John Hitman,
80, who had been stabbed several
times.
Hitman told police he had
been set upon by several men as
he was returning home. He
denied knowing either Quinn or
Gill, who police say had a police
record.
The Washington times., 1933-09-26
CERMAK FEARED
GANG KILLERS

CHICAGO, Sept. 26 G.N.S).
Heralded by the statement that
the late Mayor Anton Cermak
lived in constant fear of gangland
assaSsins," startling testimony
was awaited as the trial of Harry
Lang, dismissed police sergeant,
got under way.
Lang, who threatened to elbow
the lid off the political situation"
in Chicago if brought to trial, is
charged with assault to kill Frank
CThe Enforcer) Nitti, one of the
old Capone gang leaders. Nitti
was shot and wounded critically
in a police raid on the syndi-
Gates headquarters in a down.
town office building.
In his opening statement to
the jury, William Rittenhouse,
counsel for Lang, declared Mayor
Cermak was in fear for his life
and was sought by aSsasSins of
the powerful Capone vice Syndi-
cate.
The attorney said the defense
would prove Lang had shot Nitti
in pursuit of his duties as a de-
tective assigned to the Mayors
war on the Capone ring.
Mayor Cermak was killed by an
assassin's bullet in Florida early
last spring.
The Washington times., 1933-09-26

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-Fifteen
years back-in the days of war
hySteria, of A. Mitchell Palmer'S
war on the Reds, of the Lusk lists
and D. A. r. blacklists-Mrs.
Henry Goddard Leach braved pub
lie opinion and worked openly and
ardently to assure justice for the
I. w. w. and the Syndicalist,
thereby becoming completely sus-
pect to all the So-called patriots.
She was named on the Lusk list,
the D. A. r. list. and every other
listing of public enemies" be-
cause she says:
"It was dangerous then to
cherish a shred Of liberalism, 70
even whisper that yOu believed
in any sort Of world labor
movement"
During the recrudescence of pa
triotic fervor today that sees half
million marching feet on Fifth
Avenue and a sea of blue eagles
Tapping their wings over the land,
Mrs. Leach finds herself working
just as zealously as in 1917-for
the NRA. She sees no incon-
gruity, she declares:
Il believe the NRA is labOr's
The Washington times., 1933-09-26
Walkers Can't Find
Suitable Paris Home

PARIS, Sept. 26 0.N.SO-Un-
able to find satisfactory Paris
apartment at reasonable rental,
former Mayor James J. Walker, Of
New York, and his wife, the for
mer Betty Compton, left for Lon
don today for a short visit. AS
they left, Mrs. Walker told Inter
national News Service:
1--WE gained IL pounds since
my recent Illness"
The Walkers expect to return to
Paris in a few days to resume
their hunt for an apartment.
The Washington times., 1933-09-26
PIT. Congress Seeks
Aid From Roosevelt

The National Congress OF
Parents and Teachers is seeking
the aid of President Roosevelt in
relieving the educational emer-
gency in a lettar to the Presi-
dent, from Mrs. Hugh Bradford,
national president following the
national board conference.
Mrs. Bradford requested that
he assist in awakening the pub
lie to a consciousness of the
needs of education.
The Washington times., 1933-09-26
Coal Men Want u. S.
Purchases for Poor

A delegation from Scranton
and other Pennsylvania anthra-
cite regions. gathered here to-
day preparatory to going before
Harry L. Hopkins, emergency re-
lief administrator, this afternoon
to urge that he include the buy
ing of from 100000 to l5,0OO,-
900 tons of anthracite among the
Governments $75,000,0O0 pur-
chase of food and cotton for
clothing for the poor this winter.
The coal-buying plan is known
as the Scranton Times Murphy
Plan"
The Washington times., 1933-09-26
M'KEE THOUGHT
SURE To RUN
FOR MAYOR

e NEW YORK, Sept. 26 GN.S0.
With formal announcement of his
candidacy for mayor expected
from Joseph V. Mckee today or
tomorrow, New York's political
pot seethed today.
. Mckee was formally requested
. to enter the mayoralty race by
/. former Representative Loring NJ.
Black, who opposed Mayor John
P. OBrien in the Democratic
primary, mad a group of Blacks
!. campaign workers.
F. Tammany Worries Not
- Tammany Hall, meantime, re-
manned undisturbed on the sur
8 face by threat of the former alder
manic president to project him.
self into the campaign and re-
iterated the declaration that
Mayor O'Brien would be swept
into office in November.
But Langdon w. Post, former
.assemblyman and fusion candi-
-date for Borough President of
Manhattan, opposed McKee's can
I, didacy. Returning from a flying
"trip to Washington where he had
gone to ask President Roosevelt
to take no part in the local cam
paign, indirectly or otherwise,
Post declared no candidates on
the fusion ticket would accept the
Endorsement of independent Dem
ocrats planning to put a Mckee
ticket in the field.
~ Would Aid Tammany
Post also expressed belief that
McKee's candidacy would en-
nance Tammany's chances of
carrying the November election by
making the mayoralty campaign
O threecornered fight.
Post, most outspoken OF NC.
KEGS candidacy. said he had not
seen the President in Washing
ton but, according to political cir
cles here, Mr.. Roosevelt has de-
cided upon a strict hands off,
policy for the municipal fight and
would not influence the election
or Mckee one way or another.
The Washington times., 1933-09-26

A home Is your castle yOur
greatest protection "a wise Invest
ment! Study the many w0rh-while
h0me buys advertised for sale in the
WANT AID SECTION of this newspaper.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
GRAIN PRICES DROP
TO EXTREME LIMITS
Wheat, Rye and Barley Down Five
Cents-Market Returns to Stand
still-Cotton Loses 81.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 16.-With the re-
moval of ''pegged" minimum prices for
grains on the board of trade today, all
cereals dropped the extreme limits per-
mitted at the opening.
While ''pegging" was withdrawn, the
daily price restrictions of cents for
wheat, rye and barley, cents for corn
and cents for oats remained in effect,
and prices promptly sank the limit.
Some of the opening prices were
September wheat, 87As, September corn,
453s, September oats 1924 and Septem-
Der rye So cents.
Trading in Chicago for the last sew
eral days had been in the doldrums, the
market merely going through the
routine Most of the interest had been
centered on the Winnipeg quotations.
The directors of the big Canadian ex-
change today put into effect pegged
minimum prices there
NEW YORK, August 16 R.-Cotton
prices were pushed down about 50 a
bale today by the selling of traders and
other interests who were a bit nervous
over developments in grain markets
About half the loss was recovered
| later, with the close so cents to $1.05
lower.
On the downswing October contracts
sold at $50 cents a pound, off 50 a
bale, and March at 8.96, off $1.80.
Prices for these and other active con-
tracts represented new lows on the
movement and losses Of about SIG a
bale from the July high levels.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
admits POISONING
-FOUR IN FAMILY
Akron Attorney Says He
Feared Implication in
Theft of Papers.
BY the Associated Press.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. August 10
Fear of implication in the theft Of pa
pers to be used as evidence against his
client in an Ohio forgery case motjvated
the quadruple poison Staying of foul
members of a family near Malvern
Ark, yesterday, Mark H. Shank, Al
year-old Akron attorney said in an ex-
panded confession to police here today
Shank said he purchased the poison
at a dru. store in Kenmore, an Akron
suburb, cafore he left there last Friday
to come to Hot Springs.
In his confession he described in de-
tail how he placed the violent poisor
in grape juice he poured into paper
cups for each of the five members o.
the family of Alvin Colley, four oil
whom died shortly afterward.
Denies Theft Implication.
He denied implication in the theft
of papers from the Office of the prose,
cutting attorney at Wooster Ohio. fol
which authorities there had a warrant
charging Colley with robbery.
. He asserted, however, he had learned
he was to be implicated through a
woman at Akron with whom he said
Cooley had been running around.
The woman, he said, was demanding
S400 to keep quiet.
Police said they found a letter from
Shank in the clothing CT one of the
victims. Mrs. Ethel Colley, advising hel
and her husband. Alvin, to keep eyes
open, mouth shut" and he would soor
join them and you will all be rich"
Colley and his wife ard two sons,
and II years of age. were found dead
and dying of poison on a highway neal
Malvern late yesterday after their cal
had crashed into a fence and Shank
had fled into the woods
A third child, Clyde, 312 years old
was taken to a hospital at Malvern il
serious condition. He responded t
an antidote given him by physicians
there and today was reported to have
recovered.
Confesses, Asks Leniency.
Shank confessed, authorities an.
nounced. in the following brief state.
ment which he said he would amplify
after he had some sleep:
"I am guilty of the murder of tint
four persons at Malvern by poison anc
I only ask that you officers recommend
to the courts that they grant me al
the leniency possible"
Colley was sought by Wayne County
Ohio, authorities on warrant charging
him with stealing receipts and othel
evidence from the Office of Prosecuting
Attorney Lyman R. Critchfle!d, jr.
which was intended for prosecution o.
Clarence Braucher of Barberton, Ohio
on forgery charge. Sank was at
torney for Braucher.
The evidence, the Ohio prosecutor
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1933-08-16
SAYS HOOVER DID
BEST T0SAvE BANK
Mills Tells Jury Ford Baked
Unless He and Son Un-
derWrote Stock.
BY the Associated Press.

DETROIT, August ia recital oi
the attitude of Herbert Hoover, then
President, during the Michigan banking
crisis, and a statement that Henry Ford
refused to take any part in bank re-
organization unless he and Edsel Ford
could underwrite all the stock, came TO-
day from Wilson w. Mills, prominent
banker witness before the one-man
bank jury.
Mills. former chairman of the boarc
of the First National Bank, Detroit, the
largest closed bank in the country, said
Mr.. Hoover was by no means" to blame
for the Michigan holiday, and declared
his attitude at all times was that Of
an executive desirous of helping in every
way. despite opposition that developed
from Senator James Couzens, Repub-
lican, of Michigan, to a Reconstruction
Finance Corporation loan which, Mills
said, would have prevented the bank
holiday
Bank Sought $135,o00, ,000.
Ford. the witness said, refused tt
take any part in the reorganization ot
the First National Bank, Detroit, after
it had been closed unless he and hE
son. Edsel, could underwrite all tht
stock. At that time, he said, the bani
had an application before the r. F. c
for a $l35 100000 loan. which CouZen.
opposed as matter of national policy.
Mills also related that he did no
know the First National would not re.
open after the holiday until he wa.
advised of the appointment of a Fedora
conservator. He also said it was Eugene
Meyer, then governor of the Fedora
Reserve Board, and his associates, who
requested George P. Dawson. chairman
OF the board of the Central Hanover
Bank &. Trust Co. of New York, to si1
as an unofficial envoy in consulta.
tions over the city's banking crisis jus
after the Statewide holiday.
Mills indicated he assented to tn,
State banking holiday to prevent F'orc
from carrying out threat he said tn,
motor magnate had made to Withdraw
$4,000, 900 on deposit in the First Ma.
tional If another bank, the Guardian
National Bank of Commerce. closed.
Couzens to Testify.
Mills will be followed on the stand
possibly today, by Senator Couzens. al
the Senator's own request. Edsel B
Ford probably will testify after Senator
Couzens. but there was no indication
that Henry Ford would take the witnes.
stand. Mills said yesterday Ford re.
fused to freeze" s7,5OO,00O deposi,
in the Union Guardian Trust Co. dur
Ing the frenzied negotiations to aver
the Michigan banking holiday.
On behalf of Henry Ford it was said
last night he would have no statement
until the time is right"
Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin
pastor of the Shrine of the Little
Flower. who engaged in a heated con.
troversy with defenders of the closed
banks last Spring, is expected to follow
Edsel Ford on the witness stand.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
FEDERAL CONTRACT
MUST Be FILLED
McCarI Rules Terms Cannot
Be Modified Because
of Code.

Contracts with the Government must
be filed under their original terms, even
though the makers run into increased
operating costs due to application of the
national recovery act, Controller Gen
eral McCarl held today.
The decision was given to the Attor-
ney General, who had advised the con-
troller general that the Delta Finishing
Co. of Philadelphia had served notice
it could not complete a contract for
bleaching and shrinking duck manufac-
tured in Atlanta prison at the rate of
25s cents per yard, but would have to
boost the cost approximately 35 per cent
because the firm WAS operating under
the recovery code. The Attorney Gen.
eral asked what procedure should be
followed.
Cannot Modify Terms.
The controller general responded
that there is no existing legal authority
for modifying the contract, and added
THE contract between the United
States and the Delta Finishing Co.
constitutes an obligation binding on the
company and it may not withdraw
therefrom without resulting liability to
the United States for excess cost, If
any, which may be occasioned the
Government by such default"
In this instance, to fill out the con-
tract, will cost the Delta Co. about
$500 more than the original estimated
figure.
Legislation Likely.
The case is the first OF the sort to
arise and it was recalled today that at
the time the recovery act was under
discussion President Roosevelt said that
doubtless the next Congress would have
to enact legislation that would protect
contractors engaged on Government
work, on the basis of agreements which
would call for increased expenditures
under the act.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
ROOSEVELT PLANS
ARMY POST MERGER
Surveys Outlay to Effect
Economy in Building
Program.

President Roosevelt has decided to
concentrate many Army posts into a
few major establishments for purposes
Of economy and efficiency.
He Is now surveying the Army out
lay and is determined to weed out a
large number of Army barracks to cut
costs of operation and to promote CO.
ordination of the forces.
Until he has decided which posts
will be retained in the new order he
is withholding any funds for Army
housing
Secretary Of War Dern has urged the
Public Works Board to allocate funds
from its SO, 300 900 900 employment fund
for Army housing but no action has
been taken.
President Will Act
1t was made clear at the White House
pass on the Army buildings program
now under consideration by the Public
Works Administration.
Dern and Secretary 1ckes, head of
the Public Works Administration, have
been in disagreement about appro-
priations for Army buildings as well as
allotments for the motoriZation and
modernization CT the Army
A program providing for the ex-
penditure of S145.000,000 for Army
buildings was submitted by the War
Department to the Public Works Ad-
ministration, but, with the President
favoring a concentration of it, it was
considered unlikely he would favor the
present building plan as whole.
One regiment Of the Army is now
scattered in four different posts. This
is a condition Of which the President
disapproves and he is eager to effect a
reorganization and concentration of the
Army in fewer posts. 1t was indicated
the building projects he would approve
would fall in line with this desire.
In his determination to block any
thing resembling the pork barrel in
connection with the national public
building program, President Roosevelt
is insisting that public works officials
carefully scrutinize each proposal for
building.
The administration policy will be to
| construct only those buildings that are
| deemed essential and practical. All
! projects which are not considered justi-
fable, so far as the expense and prac-
ticability are concerned, will be
, abandoned.
Post Offices Rejected
| Already large number of post Offices
and other Federal buildings included
in the general building program adopt
ed several years ago through political
and congressional pressure have been
classified as unsatisfactory.
In working out the administration
plan officials are placing the proposed
buildings in six or seven categories, so
classified because of the Importance
and practicability and the estimated
cost of the building. Thus far only
A and B class have been approved. The
/ proposed buildings in the four other
categories are being re-examined and
very carefully scrutinized
Evening star., 1933-08-16

Meeting in Maine
Hints Money Farley
McAdOO Also Present ;
International Problems
Believed Discussed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BAR HARBOR, Me, August 10
Simultaneous visits Of three leading
figures in world fiscal affairs gave rise
to speculation today of whether con-
ference on international monetary
problems may have taken place here.
The three were Montagu Norman,
governor of the Bank of England;
Secretary of the Treasury William H.
Woodin and Senator William g..
McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treas
ury in the Wilson administration.
Norman arrived here several days ago
with Mrs. Norman to be the guest of
Mrs John Markoe, with whom he had
visited frequently in the past. Often
mysterious and reticent about his af-
fairs, the British financial mogul de-
clined until today to permit his presence
here to be generally known.
McAdoo dropped in while he was in
Maine on yachting trip with Robert
G. Ebert Of Washington, member of
the Industrial Recovery Board. He left
yesterday.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
FIRING AT BOAT PROBED
Girl Killed When Flyer Mistook
Craft for Target.

LONDON, August 16 (P).-A Royal
Air Force inquiry was held this after
noon into the death Of Jean Chasterton,
17-year-old London girl, who was shot
dead yesterday by ar air force ma
chine gunner who mistook the rowboat
she was in for target.
The victims sister, Joan Chasterton,
and her father attended the proceed
ings which were secret and were held at
the EaStchurch Airdrome.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
ROPER DENIES u. S. WORKER CUT
is INCONSISTENT WITH RECOVERY

Answering criticism that the Federal
Government was not keeping its own
doorstep clean" by cutting salaries and
laying off employees, while appealing to
industry to increase pay rolls, Secretary
of Commerce Roper said today he could
see no inconsistency in this action, be-
cause in discharging Civil Service work.
ers the Government was conforming to
a future and permanent program, while
industry was being asked to carry out
an emergency plan.
Roper said he had received letters
charging inconsistency in that the Gov
ernment was not following the policy it
was appealing to industry to carry out
One critic is understood to have cited
the number of civil service employees In
Washington who have been laid of, OF
Evening star., 1933-08-16
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
MEN BEGIN FURLOUGHS

One hundred and ten employees of the
Highway Department today began in
definite payless furloughs because of
failure of Lewis Douglas, director of
the budget, to make any decision as to
whether the District may spend 81 ,500.-
600 of its own money, collected as gaso-
line taxes from local motorists, for
road construction.
Under the gas tax law the money
may not be spent for anything else.
Evening star., 1933-08-16

have had their salaries cut, as an ex-
ample.
The cabinet officers statement came
shortly after Hugh S. johnson of the Ma
tional Recovery Administration told
newspaper men he viewed the reduction
made by the Government in its per-
sonnel as being "regrettably inconsist-
ent"
Some employees are being let of
because it is necessary" johnson ex-
planned If you do not do that you
cannot hope to preserve the fiscal
solidarity Of the United States"
Roper said with the clerks employed
in the administration of the recovery
program, Washington had more Federal
workers than prior to the time the
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column S.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
Threat of Candhi
To Die by Fasting
Wins Compromise
Government Offers Plan
to Permit Campaign
for UntOuchables.
BY the Associated Press.

POONA, India, August 16.-After
the Mahatma Gandhi had announced
at noon today that he was starting a
fast until death, the government came
forward with an offer which, 1t was
expected. would impel him to abandon
the plan.
The government was willing to pro-
vide the Nationalist leader with facili-
ties enabling him to continue. under
certain conditions. his campaign to
better the status of Indias most lowly
caste, the untouchables.
Thus far the Mahatma has not
actually missed any meal, and it was
Continued on Page 2, Column 1.)