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Evening star., 1933-09-07
|JOHNSON'SCONCERN
|C|TED IN COMPLAINT
Labor Official Charges N. R.
A. Is Being Violated in
Letter to Roosevelt.
BY the Associated Press.


NEWARK, N. j., September 7.--Eric
lations of the N. r. A. at the local Lea
Fabrics, Inc, factory, of which Gen
Hugh 8. johnson, N. r. A. administra-
tor, Is president, in kilograms sent today
to- President Roosevelt, Gen. johnson
Secretary Of Labor Perkins and the
Labor Board of the N. r. A.
Ross, who is secretary and treasurer
of the International Carpet Workers
Union, with Offices here, said the Lea
firm has cut the working week Of its
employees from 48 to 40 hours without
increasing their hourly wage, which Is
40 cents. This, he said. reduces weekly
wages from $500 to SIC.
He also charges Herbert Smalley, an
employe, was discharged from the Lea
factory for attempting to organize q
union. Ross said Smalley had been
with the firm four years and no salts
factory reason for his discharge had
been given.
| While the Lea firm has added addi-
tional employees, Ross said, 1t Is now
operating on a 24-hour schedule, seven
days q week. In a statement yesterday
Ross declared he felt the Lea firm has
failed to live up to the spirit and the
letter of the N r. A.
Lea Fabrics, Inc, Is q subscriber to
the national woolen and worsted car
pets code which was filed yesterday.
Ellery X. Files, vice president and
general manager of Lea Fabrics, Inc,
said he finds no basis Tor the charges
made by Ross
The normal working week at the Lea
plant, he said, is 40 hours while last
wear It was only 80 hours a week
Smalley, he declared, had been dis
charged for incompetence.
Mr.. Files said Ross is afiliated with
the Associated Industrial Workers OF
America in Camden. which the plant
onicial described as "a radical organi-
zatiou,"
Evening star., 1933-09-07
N,9)Q,0)O ALLOTTED
for PUBLIC WORKS.
Funds Given to 10 States
Announced by Ickes Follow
lowing Roosevelt Approval.
1y the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Funds totaling $7,5p0, 900 for public
works projects in 10 States were allot-
ted by the Public Works Administration
and the allotments were made public by
Public Works Administrator Harold r..
Ickes, after he had received approval
from the President on q long list Of
other works to be made public later
g, Exerting pressure to speed the funds
into job providing construction work.
officials said the bulk of the projects
announced today could be started
within 10 days and the rest within q
month.
Most of the projects approved today
were for improvements on Indian lands
in nine Western States, for which $6,-
164,050 was allotted.
The Public Works Administration
also approved advances of $l,048.000 to
Claire, Wis, for municipal improve
merfts.
Oficials estimated the Indian projects
would provide l,969.040 man days Of
work for 5270 men. benefitting 1914
Indian and 3,111 white families, and
that the municipal expenditures would
give more than 200, 1000 man hours Of
labor.
:. All of the Indian projects have been
authorized by Congress and many Of
them had been appropriated for, but
the funds were impounded to provide
for the Civilian Conservation Corps
With one exception none Of the In
dian projects will bring new lands into
cultivation. The one is San Carlos prof.
ect in Arizona, where $2650 900 will be
spent. including sl.000,0o0 for sub
jugation of the land.
Other major Indian funds included:
$54o.000 at Flathead. Mont: 1891 900,
Shoshone. Wyo: $125.000. Pine River,
Colo: 100000. Yakima, WASH;
4292,000. Duck Valley. New: $780,
900: Walker River, Nev: $350,000.
Fruitland, N. Mex: $129.150, Hogback,
N. Mex, and $l05,000, Lower Rock
Point, Ariz.
Evening star., 1933-09-07

In addressing the savings division. from
which he retired as president.
He said banks were paying 21z per
cent interest TO the postal savings
trustees ION . patriotic impulse" and
that the banks could not use the money
probably on that basis.
Attacks 0las-Steagall hin.
One Of the hardest attacks made
yesterday upon the Glass s-SteAgall
banking bill was by George v. Nc
LAughlin, president Of the New York
State 1AnkeD' Association.
MclAughlin described the law - .
MIXTURE Of eood and evil. probably Is
q result Of the numerous compromises
that had TO be made in order to get
the bin passed" He demanded that It
be revised II favor Of I ZANE lesisla-
tive program. for banking"
Invitations. for the association con-
vention 70 be held In warrington, d. c..
In 1894 and In New Orleans In 1885
were received yesterday at the associa.
tons convention here
Odlcials took the invitations under
c6nsidefation and announced decisiou
would = na1e Atl9 the oloee Of this
y&ktsS 6hGettfie. ''s1s s '.'
Evening star., 1933-09-07
BRAZILIAN ENVOY HOST
TO TOURING CLUB GROUP
Tea and Reception Planned al
Mayhower for Members Fol-
lowed by Dance Tonight.

One hundred and twenty-five MEM
hers of the Touring Club Of Brazil WILL
be guests of Brazilian Ambassador r. De
LimaT Silva at the Mayfiower Hotel at
a reception and tea at o'clock this
afternoon. This evening the club
members will stage dance at the same
hotel.
The club members are on their way
to the Century Of Progress Exposition
1T Chicago. They arrived in New YORK
last Thursday, and are visiting Phila-
delphia and other cities on their way to
Chicago.
The organization. according to An.
gelo Orazi, its secretary, was founded
eight years ago, and has since visited q
foreign country each year. After seeing
the Chicago fair, part of the club viii
return to New York and thence to
Brazil, while some members will make
. too9sf the West and eouthweet fore
oailin5 Tor home. s's
Evening star., 1933-09-07
Star Stan Photo.

first landing at washington Airport, al
though he was stationed in Washing
ton for q number Of years while on
duty with the Navy Bureau Of Aero
nautics incidental to speed plane de-
velopment.
williams voiced the opinion that the
local airport is q menace to safety and
can be redeemed only by closing Of
Military road and expansion Of the
landing area to its fullest possible
limits
Williams was . candidate for the
ONCE Of Assistant Secretary Of Wal
for Aeronautics until the post wa
abolished as an economy measure. For
five years he has. been in charge ol
the assembling and flying Of inter
national teams at the National Al,
Races. In connection with the gather
ing Of these teams williams became
a close personal friend of Gen. Italc
Balbo, Italian air leader. Balbo gives
williams credit for his decision to lead
in person the famous Italian Air force
massed flights to South America and
to the United States.
Evening star., 1933-09-07
FORD PAY INCREASE
SEEN AS CODE STEP
Wages Would Remain at
Present Level Under 35.
Hour Week.
BY the Associated Press.

DETROIT, September THE ab-
sence of any outward indications OF
concern among Ford Motor Co. execu-
tives over the NJ r. A. controversy is
adding strength to q growing belief
that some kind Of an agreement is ex-
pected to bring Henry Ford under the
Blue Eagles banner.
There WAS, however, no hint Of .
formal announcement Of policy, and no
ing when Ford returns, probably the
last Of the week.
Edsel Ford. president Of the COM
pany. already was back from his vaca-
ton at Seal Harbor, Me.
To adopt the national automobile
code and qualify for Blue Eagle, the
Ford Motor Co. presumably would be
expected to reduce its working hours
from 40 to IS; waive its traditional
stand against collective bargaining by
employees, and consent to some degree
Of supervision by the National Automo-
bile Chamber of Commerce, admins
is q sticking point, for in line with its
policy of absolute independence, the
Ford Co. is not q member Of the
N. A. C. C.
The Ford minimum wage, 81 Tor an
eight-hour day. already is above the
43-cents-an-hour minimum prescribed
by the code, and Ford officials have
revealed that q revision Is in progress.
stepping up the minimum for most
workers to $3.50 for an eight-hour
day.
In some quarters that was interpreted
as laying the groundwork for a possible
reduction in working hours to the figure
set by the code, without curtailing the
income of the workers, but that was
pure conjecture. At go cents an hour,
an employe would draw $21 for 35-
hour week, compared to $40 for a 40
hour week at so cents an hour.
A Ford Motor Co. tug was reported
to have docked near the Ford Summer
camp, few miles from Big Bay. Mich,
yesterday. but there were no other signs
that Ford expected to leave his re-
treat.
Evening star., 1933-09-07
Johnson CHANGES
TARIFF EXPERTS
Prepares to Study Import
Fee Revision to Offset
Production Costs.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Gen. Hugh q. Johnscn replaced one
tariff expert Of the N. r. A. last night
a he prepared to give serious thought
to the necessity for higher import duties
to Offset the increased costs Of produc-
ton under the recovery program.
Oscar B. Ryder. assistant chief Of the
Tariff Commissions economic division.
was appointed to the N. r. A. ofhcial
had been ct the Recovery Administra-
tion for several weeks.
Making the change without an
nouncement, Johnson said in response
to inquiries that 1T was just necessary. -
Asked who had appointed Billings, who
was known ut the Tariff Commission ~
high tari6 advocate. to his post as
adviser to the administration. johnson
said. II suppose Hancock did"
John M. Hancock. q partner In Leh-
man Brothers In New York, presented
his resignation recently as executive
ofncer Of the Recovery Administration.
Billings was q former ofacial Of the
Tariff Commission.
Although the recovery act provides
for tarih increases II necessary to on
set higher costs Of prediction, this au-
thorisation has not been utilised yet.
However. johnson has said It would be
used when the need was shown.
Ryder was described - holding tariff
views conforming generally to those Of
President Roosevelt. He was attached
to the Office of Senator Harrison, Demo-
crat Of Mississippi, now chairman of the
Finance Committee, for some time as
representative Of the Tariff Commission.
His appointment to the task of an
alyxing the tarin situation In connec-
ton with the N. r. A. and making rec
concentrations to johnson, who In turn
will submit his views to President
Roosevelt, was regarded In ofllcial quar-
tiers as the first direct move toward
cutting down imports that might food
in If costs rise ~ the administration
expects them to do under the increased
minimum wage and maximum hour
provisions.
Evening star., 1933-09-07
ORTHODOX JEWS PLEDGED
TO SUPPORT OF N. R. A.
Rabbis Voice Approval After Ad-
} dress by Ex-Gov. william
E. Sweet.
Dy the Associated Press.

Dy the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September Support
of the N. r. A. by the Orthodox Jewry
OF the United States was pledged by
delegates to the annual convention of
the Assembly of Orthodox Rabbis
yesterday
Approval of the recovery act was
voiced after they had heard an address
by William E. Sweet, former Governor
of Colorado, who flew here from Wash
1ngton to discuss the N. r. A.
If the NJ r. A. is sound for the
times in which we live. it will accom-
plish what it set out to do" said Sweet.
"If it is unsound. it will fail. But the
eoundness of the N. R. A. depends upon
the elimination of unfair practices, q
decrease in the hours Of labor and
upon increased wages, so that the
worker will be able to buy back that
which he produces"
The convention approved "charen"
ordering boycott of German goods by
all Orthodox Jews In the United States
and Canada.
Evening star., 1933-09-07
18,739D. c. HOMES
PLEDGED TON. R. A.
Woman canvassers Report
Success With Returns Still
incomplete.
Scattered and incomplete returns at

Scattered and incomplete returns at
District Of Columbia N. r. A. head
quarters today indicated Q total Of
1879 Warrington households are
pledged N. r. A. consumers and are en-
titled to display the Blue Earle con
sumer" sticker.
Reports from virtually all sections Of
the District were made ut q meeting Of
tne nouseAto-house women canvaasery Of
the local recovery drive orRaniza ton
shortly before noon. Mrs. Charles Batr.
major IN charge Of the house-canvass.
ing groups. presided and COMPLIED re-
ports.
Altogether. the captains Of the white
organization reported q total Of l3,So8
households signed and COS refussls.
Ihe colored division reported q total
OF 1851 householdS signed up as con-
sumers IN the i've days the colored
workers have been In the field.
ObjectorS Reasons Vary.
Although no effort was made to tabu-
late the reasons given by persons who
refused to sign the pledge cards, isolated
explanations advanced by reporting cap
tains showed wide range OF reasons
from lust plain ll-headedneAs" to
Ignorance" and lack Of UNDERSTANDING
One man who refused to sign said de
wanted to cooperate IN every way he
could, but that he was "afraid to siRn
anything"
One woman captain charged public
school teachers were not cooperating.
Others said the teachers were among
their best workers.
Another captain reported dif1culty In
getting cooperation from Army ofacers'
households. and others a. quickly aid
some OF their best help was coming from
Army wives.
Lad 70 C0lefed SeotSeu.
Among the colored Yprkers, oaut. z.
G. McLAurin led with total Of eS5
consumers pledged. Capt. Wooasey ".
Han was next with . total OF 657, and
Capt. John c. Payne was third with 576.
The work Of the colored divisions Was
delayed BY failure of proper N. r. A.
insignia to be delivered to them. Once
the pledge cards, stickers and buttons
were on hand, however. the workers
took the field and the totals reported
today represented only five days work.
Another report meeting Of the colored
divisions will be held tomorrow night
at the Y. W. C. A. Building, Ninth
street and Rhode Island avenue. 1t
which Thomas p. Littlepage, command
ing general OF washington N. r, A.
forces. will be the speaker.
Evening star., 1933-09-07
SLAYER GETS HEARING

PHOENIX, Ariz., September R).-
In response to an appeal written. in the
State Prison death cell, the State Par
don Board yesterday granted clem-
ency hearing to George J. Shaughnessy.
Albany, N. Y, youth, sentenced to be
hanged October ~ for killing Lon
Blankenship, Tucson automobile dealer,
in hold-up. Date for the hearing will
be set later.
The condemned youth indicated he
expected his foster mother to come to
Arizona for the hearing. He is the first
person in the history Of Arizona to
have been sentenced to death after q
plea of guilty to q charge Of murder.
Evening star., 1933-09-07
s75,o)O,0DD SAVING
SEEN BY FARLEY
Postal Budget to Be Balanced
and Personnel Is Given
Credit.
BY the Associated Press.


NORFOLK, Va. September T.
Postmaster General James A. Farley
said here today 1t Is his intention to
effect q saving in expenditures of the
Post Once Department for the cur
rent fiscal year OF approximately $75,-
000, 900. in comparison with the fiscal
year 1888.
This saving. he said. combined with
the anticipated increase in revenue,
will permit the department substan-
TALLY to balahce its budget without call
ing upon the Treasury and the tax
payers for aid
Mr. Farley was the principal speaker
at the exercises in dedication Of the
new Federal building here.
1T IS only fair to explain" Mr. Far
ley continued. that the principal credit
for the more satisfactory condition of
the postal finances belongs to the per-
sonnel Of the postal service and
while want you to know that the de-
partment has drastically curtailed its
expenditures for the transportation, for
rents, for supplies and equipment, and
for all the other items that enter into
post office operations. the largest share
Of the savings which 1t is now accom-
plishing in post ONCE administration is
being contributed. and contributed
cheerfully, by the postal workers"
Evening star., 1933-09-07
PLACES VALUATION

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion today placed a final valuation for
rete-making purposes OF $25l, OF, ,S6S as
OF December 81. 1881, on the Texas q
New Orleans Railroad and its is af.
dliateS.
The Texas & New Orleans. which
operates q total mileage Of 6,474, is
known as the Atlantic system Of the
Southern Pacific Co.
An application for consolidation Of
the Texas & New Orleans and its sub
sidiaries is pending before the COM
mission
Evening star., 1933-09-07
CODE FOR GOVERNMENT
WORKERS IS ADVOCATED
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September T.-Crediting
President Rooeevelt's N. r. A. program
with accomplishing moro toward eco
nomic recovery ID . few weeks than
10 years Of legislation. Representative
James M. Mead Of New York yester-
day recommended that the Government
place its own workers under the code.
Mead, who IL chairman Of the House
Post Once and Post Roads Commit
tee. spoke at the National Federation
Of post Once Clerks. After his ad-
dr9ss the convention adopted . res
olution calling for 30-h0r week and
10 salASy feduct1on 8 s n 81 = =
Evening star., 1933-09-07
British Financier Dies.

BIRMINGHAM, England, September
7 (Pl-Sir Gilbert Christopher Vyle,
prominent financier and engineer. who
acted as industrial adviser to the United
Kingdom delegation at the Imperial
Economic Conference in Ottawa last
year, died today. He was 6S years Of
age.
Evening star., 1933-09-07

w YAsH1NoToN has the worst
4 's:: '%:.ss e :. :;.!;s ;s: :..: s:!:s: :s:
Europe. in the opinion of
Capt. Afford ]. williams, jr., famous
former Navy aviator star and for eight
years holder Of the land plane speed
record.
"Thk u the worst airport ever
saw" Williams said wrathfully Is he
TAXED his scarlet and silver single
scatter biplane through puddles Of oil.
When . big plane took Oh over Mill
tAry road, which separtes the two halves
Of the local airport. williams shook his
head in horror.
Capt. williams. who holds . COM
mission in the Marine Corps Aviation
Reserve, new here from New York in
connection with . survey Of the At
lantic coastal airvays and landing
fields he is making for an oil COM
pany, for which he recently became
aviation advisor. He made the trip
In his own plane. equipped for aero
battles and inverted flying. It was his
Evening star., 1933-09-07

Wisdom Is Permanent.
The wisdom in life's laboratories can
not leave the hand that finds It.
Evening star., 1933-09-07
1tSd
racket
By
James E. Grant

racts.' To prove 1t he put the
cataract in their hand after the
removal treatment. Then he told
them it would be about six months
before their vision would return
completely. That gave him six
months to work before the COM
plants began to roll in. However,
he misjudged his dates and we
put him under glass"
Il don't see why. He must have
Evening star., 1933-09-07
"HERE'S . new batch Of
people out here to iden-
tify that quAck doctor"
II r~.~..t~, <xys,yfcr,e ~,

= Inspector Willing's as
sistant told him. '1s 1t all right
If let them have a look at him?
I should say listen at him, because
most of the victims are half
blind"
What does he mean, half
blind?" the inspectors guest
Evening star., 1933-09-07

oueried, after the assistant had
left. HAS somebody been VIC
thinking blind people?"
"Just half-blind people," Willing
said, people with cataracts. He
developed . gag Of removing cata-
racts without an operation. Pa
tients fiocked to him by the hum
dreds and he removed their cata-
Evening star., 1933-09-07
COAL CONFERENCE
At WHITE HOUSE
CLEARS n. R. 4. ISSUE

(Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1933-09-07

removed the cataracts If he showed
1t to the patient after the removal
treatment"
THAT was easy" the inspector
scofYed. HE showed them q piece
Of eggskin that he had concealed
between his fingers. He just pre-
tended to remove It from their
eyes"
Evening star., 1933-09-07

s'If, on the other hand, the necessarily
hurried examinations should be lax and
suneffIeial. many institutions would be
a6mittted TO deposit insurance that can
not rightfully quality"
The associations stand on deposits
guaranty was In contrast to the state
mnt Of President Roosevelt yesterday
that the banking act had given "splen-
did results" No response was made to
: declaration that the Government had
provided the banks with means to loosen
credit for business operations, made by
. spokesman Of the President before the
convention.
Reduction or elimination Of interest
on postal savings In order to prevent
Government competition With banks
Was urged By Gilbert = Daane Of the
Grand Rapids 1flc4l SavinoD Bank
Evening star., 1933-10-26

Smith-are saying nothing about this
contest for mayor of New York. That
is, they are saying nothing publicly.
What their private views may be
would be interesting reading. Tammany
has looked longingly to Mr.. Smith to
come to its aid. But Mr.. Smith has no
reason to love John F. Curry, the
Tammany boss, nor is there any par
ticular reason why he should rise now
to the defense of Tammany admin
istration that has been shown to be
wasteful and corrupt. On the other
hand, Mr.. Smith may not care to see
the Roosevelt Democrats, who ran SO
ruthlessly over his own presidential
aspirations last year, placed in con-
troll Of the Democratic organization OF
his city.
There is no particular reason why
the Roosevelt administration should
view with pleasure the election Of La
Guardia as mayor or the reelection
of Mayor O'Brien. On the other hand,
Mr.. Mckee has been an ardent Roose-
velt Democrat for long time, and his
success might be expected to give the
Roosevelt Democrats warm feeling
silence Of the President.
Evening star., 1933-10-26

trouble for persons tempted to engage
in this crime"
Importance of certainty of punishf
ment" is emphasized by the Hartford
Times, while the Providence Bulletin
views the type to be isolated as like
charge of dynamite in the prison com.
munity," and the Cleveland News see4
an argument for the Cnange In "thl
sickening recital of jail deliveries, with
guards, wardens and sheriffs kidnapped
or murdered" The Altoona Mirror h
convinced that hardened criminals 'ars
not deserving of anything better than
to end their earthly existence on lone-
ly island" The Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin believes that the effectiveness
of the new plan will depend more on
the policy than on the prison site.
Pointing to the contrast between the
island as a place of beauty. and its pro-
posed position as a Devils Island in
volving the "sternest of realities" the
Oakland Tribune comments on the en-
terprise; "One organization in San
Francisco applauds the decision and
declares it means victory won in
program which would retain in this
vicinity the purchasing of supplies and
the establishment of officials. Another
organization protests and asserts 1t will
ask the Department of Justice to
change its mind. The Tribune re-
cords that grim Alcatraz island in a
beautiful bay, will be more grim than
ever under the announced plans"
Evening star., 1933-10-26

newspaper, the Depeche Toulouse, some
times called the Manchester Guardian
Of France; a member of Parliament for
more than 81 years, cabinet ohicer,
a lawyer. a diplomat and colonial
governor. Early in the World War he
enlisted in the French army and fought
in the front lines as a second lieutenant.
For gallantry in action at Verdun M.
Sarraut won the War Cross.
Washington made the acquaintance
Of this virile and seasoned Gallo states
man during the Arms Conference of
1922, at which he was member OF
the French delegation. At the end of
the conference Senator Sarraut was
head of the delegation. its previous
chiefs, MeSSrS. BRAND and Viviani, hav-
ing gone home 1t became the duty Of
M. Sarraut to affix the signature of
France to the naval limitation treaty
and the nine-power pact respecting the
Far East. At that time he was French
minister of colonies, a post he held
through various cabinets.
Senator Sarraut is remembered here
as an uncommonly forceful personality
and aggressive advocate of French in
terests. A Radical Socialist in politics.
he inheritS the premiership at q moment
Of acute domestic tension in France
and of international gravity in Europe
If he can surmount the parliamentary
difficulties bequeathed him by his
predecessor, NJ. Daladier, Premier Sar-
raut is equipped by temperament and
background to give the government of
France vigorous leadership at one of
the most critical periods in the repub-
lies postwar history.