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Evening star., 1933-07-02
UPSWING IN PRICE
BRINGS WHEAT OUT
Oklahoma Farmers Turn Grain
and Cotton Into Hard
Money.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, July l.
Beer, heat and wheat are the three
principal topics Of conversation in
Oklahoma today. Heat probably gets
first place because it is ever present.
The State has just passed its sixth
June day Of 100-degree temperature,
breaking all records The prolonged
dry spell means short forage crops,
burned up gardens and dreary prospects
for stock
Wheat is the second major interest
because the advance in prices brought
hundreds Of thousands of bushels of
hidden grain out of dark places, ex-
changed it for hard money and put
some life into business. Just behind
the wheat movement came cotton.
Many farmer who has been holding
cotton for years has at last turned
loose his long held ginnings.
Beer comes next. because Gov Muir
ray has at last signed the bill provid-
ing for the expenses of the election
July IL. at which time the State un-
doubtedly will be added to the long list
Of those where the 80 brew flows as
freely as the festive ice cream soda.
Bishop Cannon is in the State cam
paigning. with doubtful effect. He is
going well in the country, but the er-
rant city gentry seem SO set upon get
ting malt and vinuous beverages that
the drys cannot hope to import enough
stump speakers to prevent beer from
winning lusty victory.
The special session of the State Legis-
lature is dragging through its fifth week
without having accomplished anything
but the passage of the beer bill.
Gov. Murray seems determined to
force his high income tax down the
Threats of business. Organized busi-
ness seems to have enough friends in
the Assembly to prevent the application
OF the emergency clause to a measure
that proposes highest rates of any State
income tax in the country together with
a depletion clause that the oil business
thinks would ruin it.
The Governor thinks food and some
clothing should be exempted from the
provisions of the / per cent general
sales tax and says he will veto any
measure that does not provide such
exemptions.
There is brave talk Of compromise.
but We note that Alfalfa Bill" wants a
compromise on his tax bill that will
make him the winner in a fight in
which he has been beaten four times
before the people and before the Legis-
latCre.
My guess IS that nothing will be
done and that our increasing financial
chaos, with no adequate provisions
made for the common schools this Fall,
VIII force another special session for
the overworked Assemblymen at $6 a
day. early in September.
The wags say the General Assembly
is busy on its made work program" !"
Maybe so. w. M. H.
Evening star., 1933-07-02
LOS ANGELES PLANS
$23,6O7,600 WORKS
Between 10000 and 10000 Jobs
Expected to Be Filled for Year
in City and County.

LOS ANGELES, Calf, July l.
Clearing decks for action, this city Is
studying a public works program in
volving the expenditure of $23,607. 600
to be financed, it hopes, from its share
of the appropriation provided for in
the Federal industrial recovery act.
In addition to the city's list of prof.
ects, a county program already has
ture of approximately $47,000, 900.
City and county projects will pro-
vide. it is estimated. employment for
between $4,000 and 10000 men for a
span Of one year. These projected
programs are being studied pending
presidential appointment Of Federal
administrator or co-ordinator to work
with various California counties and
municipalities in the ALLEGATION of Fed
eral funds.
Meanwhile there is a more optimis-
tic trend in immediate employment.
due to several factors, important among
which is increased building activity.
Increase of waterway shipping is thin
ming the ranks of unemployed seamen.
Increase of demand for various lines
of products manufactured here has re-
suited In more persons being put to
work in factories
Indicative of the construction activity
in this area Is the increase in lumber
receipts at the harbor It Is indicated
that more than 50,000,000 board feet
Of lumber came into the port in June,
q new high monthly record In this re-
spect In the last two years, according
to Maine EychAuGA. egtimate6,v
Evening star., 1933-07-02

offices Of tax assessor and tax collector
in all of the 81 counties Of the State,
was lost, mislaid or sidetracked by
parties unknown. Apparently too late
TO be remedied, the people will not
have q chance to abolish 81 Offices
not for long time anyway. Another
strange incident was the abandonment
of a resolution to do away with the
Offices Of justices Of the peace and their
constables after it had reached the
House on the day of adjournment. The
resolution would have abolished more
than a hundred fee Offices that are
not generally considered necessary or
desirable This also would have been
voted on next year. had the legislators
completed their work.
Gov Dave Sholtz was given wide and
unusual authority in the handling of
State affairs, the Legislature leaving
adjustment of expenditures to fit re-
ceipts to great extent. Economical
measures passed included a general
slashing of salaries, fees. abolishment
Of some offices and consultations that
apparently could work together.
Evening star., 1933-07-02
GOV. SELIGMAN BACKS
PROGRESSIVE GROUP
He and Chairman swope Bid for
Their Support in New
Mexico.

SANTA FE., N. Mex, July l,-Stronp
Dlos 1or continuance of Progressive
support were made when Penitentiarv
warden E. B. Swope was elected Dem.
ocratic State chairman, succeeding w u
6arker, who resigned to become limited
states attorney. They came from
Dotn the new chairman and Gov. Ar
thur Seligman.
We wouldn't be in the Capitol to-
day If 1t were not for the Progressiyes -
Said Swope, advising his Democratic
brethren they should be content to
give the Progressives a share of the
spoils in recognition of their support
at the 1892 election.
Meanwhile, the Republican camp
has been quiet. Aside from Mrs. Ruth
Hanna Simms' occasional trips about
the State to organize women's clubs.
there has been little If any sign of
activity.
The State administration is in Diff
flculties, and an extraordinary session
Of the Legislature may be necessary.
Gov. Seligman has indicated that he
may call it, probably after the special
election OF September 10. Six acts of
the 1882 Legislature have been sus-
pended by referendum petitions filed
with the secretary Of State, and they
include two of the chief revenue
getting Measures severance tax on
crude petroleum and a gross sales tax,
commonly known as the chain stores
tax" A. N. M.
Evening star., 1933-07-02
NAMES TEXTILE MILLS
HAVE BIGGER PAY ROLLS
Wooden Industry Needs Skilled
Labor-Cotton Plants Busi-
ness Picks Up.

AUGUSTA, Me-, July MaineS
textile industries are showing decided
improvement While none Of the mills
making cotton goods are working full
crews, all of them are showing decided
improvement over year ago. They are
operating on full time and for the most
part report a steady increase in the
number Of hands employed. While fig
ures for all cotton mills in the State
are not available, statement issued by
President Wyman Of the New England
Industries. Inc, shows that the five
mills controlled by that organization,
located IN Augusta, Lewiston and Saco
have had an average weekly pay roll OF
54,078.64 since the 1st OF January.
This includes only labor, nothing for
salaried officials. For the week ending
June 10, the last for which figures were
made available, the total pay roll of
these mills amounted to $73,968.54,
nearly $40 1000 more than the average.
If to the textile plant pay rolls be
added those Of the other two industries
owned by this corporation, paper mill
and fiber mill, the average amount
paid weekly to employees Of the concern
for the opening months of the year
amounted to s67.578.
The statement covering these mills is
regarded as an excellent yardstick by
which to measure conditions in the
other cotton mills of the State. These
mills are located in Biddeford, Lewis
ton. Waterville and Brunswick and, it
is believed that the total weekly dis
bursements Of all are now considerably
in excess of $125.000.
Woolen mills in operation are in q
much more flourishing condition than
at anytime in the past four years. At
one time all, or substantially all of
them, were down. Now a major number
are open and are finding 1t difhcult to
secure skilled held, especially weavers.
The explanation is that in recent years,
as a result of the slack demand, few
young persons have been trained for
the work. One Of these woolen mills
is running full crews and working
nights.
Friday, for the first time in nearly
100 years, Maine had legal beer. The
law permitting notwithstanding malt
beverages to be sold in the State be-
came effective at midnight Thursday
night. At that hour there was waiting
at Portsmouth, N. H., several trucks
loaded with the 80 per cent beer, legal
in that and other States, and as the
clocks marked the hour they came
across the Piscataqua River into Kittery
and started dash across Maine to de-
liver their loads in various cities, SO
that dealers might be ready to meet the
demands of the thirsty with the coming
OF day.
Evening star., 1933-07-02
0KLAHOMAN OPERATES
0NE-MAN OIL REFINERY
Builds Complete Plant From Sal
wage and Markets Own Wells
Output at Filling Station,

TULSA, Okla. (P.-Of course cir
cumstances have to be right to make it
work, but it's c. B. Shorts way Of beat
ing the depression-producing, refining
and retailing petroleum.
An old-time drilling contractor, Short
recently found his comfortable finan-
cial backlog vanished. Virtually all he
had was farm eight miles from Tulsa,
with two small 'stripper" wells, and
his mechanical experience.
Short gathered bits of pipe and other
necessary parts from salvage yards and
put together tiny but complete oil
refinery.
With his one-man plant he takes the
oil from his own small wells, runs it
through the still, manufactures small
quantity of good-grade gasoline. some
kerosene, lubricating oil and fuel oil,
sells it at his own roadside station
and. as he puts is. manages ito make a
living II not get rich"
Evening star., 1933-07-02
SEEKS NEW JOB WEEKLY
Kansas City Woman Hopes to Set
Record for Hard Times.

KANSAS CITY R.-At a time when
getting one job is proving a hard
enough problem for several million
Americans, a young woman of Kansas
City has set out to work at So jobs in
So weeks, in all the States of the I'm
ion and a few Of the United States
possessions.
She is Miss Lyra Ferguson, reader
and entertainer, whose travels already
have enabled her to build a fireplace
with stones from all 48 States and
several foreign countries.
Some of the jobs already obtained
range from waiting tables in North
western lumber camp to hostess on
boat plying between the mainland and
the Virgin Islands. She says she likes
every kind of work"
Evening star., 1933-07-02
AUTOMOTIVE BRIEFS

Mrs C. w. Weightman of 208 Indiana
avenue northwest was winner in the
economy run conducted last week by
the District Ford dealers and under the
supervision of the A. A. A.
Honorable mention went to Francis
Grimm, DR.. j. A. Wells, Fred Fishback,
Mrs Amy p. Cults, w. D. Coombs and
Leo N. Smith.
Judges were Harry e. Smith, Norman
G. Kal, Jim Yeonians, Leo 9ugrue, W.
u. Baetner. 81 Grogan and 7. Z. Allen,
Evening star., 1933-07-02
Hams Hidden in Talcum.

French customs officers at Modane,
on the Franco-Italian frontier, recently
noticed a railway car loaded with bar
rels, which were billed as containing
powdered tale. They were consigned
from Italy to a man in Lyons. Seventy
five of the Ill barrels held choice
smoked hams packed in talcum pow
der. The customs charges on the pork
seized totaled 81 1900.
Evening star., 1933-07-02
Fertilizer Sales Gain.

NEW YORK LR-Although May Is
an unimporta1it fertilizer month. Moodys
points out that tag sales in the nine
principal cotton growing States amount
tons IN May, 1882; l2s, 900 tons in May,
1a31, and 1kS, 900 tom: n Mey, 1e10~-
Evening star., 1933-07-02

van DuScE SpCdkSs
In making a plea for formation Of a
national traffic conference, w. A. Van
Duser, director of vehicles and traffic,
District of Columbia. said % States
have financial responsibility laws, while
20 States have not.
As a thought on uniformity Of regis
tration, Russell Bevans, registrar OF
vehicles for California, urged that auto
mobile manufacturers should be required
to issue certificate of manufacture"
to embody a complete description Of the
vehicle. Such certificate, he suggest
ed, should be required by every State
as a prerequisite to registration. 1t
would constitute birth certificate" of
the automobile, which is lacking at
present.
Each certificate should bear a num-
Der, he said, which would be shown on
every registration or ownership certifi-
cate issued during the life of the auto
mobile. Thereby bona fide chain Of
title could be established which would
prevent q car registered in one State
being reported as new and registered
Is such In other States.
(Copyright, 1888, by North American News.
- laper Alliance, IneA L
The Washington times., 1933-09-12
MRS. PRAY'S 80.
N|NSAT GOLF

District women golfers were
started upon their fall schedule
today as the result of the 18-hole
handicap tournament held at the
Chevy Chase Club yesterday.
Mrs. L. G. Pray, of Manor, cap
tured first low gross with 80 while
first low net went to Mrs. A
Stanton Merrill, of Chevy Chase
with 92-12 600. Mrs. Donald
Scott, Indian Spring; Mrs. L. O.
Cameron, Chevy Chase, and Miss
Helen Dettweiler, Congressional
tied for second low gross with SO
apiece.
Mrs. j. Marvin Haynes, Dis
trict's women golf champion, ar.
rived back in town from her sum-
mer vacation in time to defend
her title as women's champion at
the Columbia Country Club, the
18-hole qualifying round begin
ming today. Pairings:
9:15, Mrs. Beller and Mrs. Frost; s:1s,
Mrs Stobler and Mrs. McGinity: 9:23,
Mrs. Deling and Mrs. Kane; 9:27, Mrs
Hall and Mrs Mari; 9:31 Miss Reilly
and Miss McNally; 9:35. Mrs Knowlson
and Mrs. Brooks, 9:39, Mrs. Lacey and
Mr. .sBrundage.
9:43. Mrs Haynes and Mrs. ouinter;
9:47. Miss Minnix and Mrs. Mackenzie;
9:51. Mrs Little and Mrs. Gardiner; 9:55,
Mrs DeFarges and Mrs. Amick: $3.50,
Mrs. whiting and Mrs. Foley; 10 :O3. Mrs
Glover and Miss Qurk; 1O:O7, Mrs. Smith
and Mrs. Poole; 1O:11, Mrs. Jones and
Mrs. Tum.
The Washington times., 1933-09-12
C.A.STONEHAM
DENIES. SALE
Of TEAM

NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-Charles
A. Stoneham's majority interest in
the New York Giants National
League baseball club has been sold
to A. C. Blumenthal, theatrical
promoter, for a price reported to
be $1,750,000.
The contracts for the sale were
drawn up last week by former City
Magistrate Leo Healy, of Brook
lyn.
It is understood former Mayor
James j. Walker will become
president of the club under con-
ditions of the sales contract. For
years Walker has been Blumen-
thals close friend.
John j. McGraw, for many
years manager of the Giants, win
retain his minority holdings in the
club.
Several other prominent New
Workers, among them Walter
Chrysler, jr., son of the automobile
magnate, were said to be associ-
ated with Blumenthal in the pur-
chase.
Later stoneham denied that
the deal had been completed but
did not deny that negotiations
were being carried on.
81 don't think Blumenthal
has that kind of money" Stone
ham said after denying the sale
of his interest in the club.
The Washington times., 1933-09-12
LEAGUES START.
PLAY0FFS

Opening games in the play
off series in the international
and American Association were
on tap for today. Columbus and
Minneapolis, which placed first
and second, were mixing at Co
lumbus in the initial of a seven
game series.
Over in the International
League, Rochester was facing
Newark in a five-game series and
Buffalo opposing Baltimore in
another five-game series. The
two winners will then clash in a
seven-game series for the league
crown.
This final series will decide the
International League representa-
tive to meet the American ASso-
cations champions in the Little
World Series"
The Washington times., 1933-09-12

GeorgetOWn'S CO G n, K
Hagerty is pleased with the form
his men showed him in their
Scrimmage yesterday. The charg-
ing of the linemen is the best
shown so far. Two injuries
marred the day but neither is
serious enough to cause the
players more than a day or tWo'S
absence from Scrlmmage.
Injured Men
They are Walter Voigt, a tackle,
who received cuts over his right
eye, and Paul Kennedy, pint-sized
quarterback, who suffered a pain
full shoulder injury.
At Brookland, Dutch" Berg
man is faced with the task of try
ing to select a first string back
field from the three sets avail
able. He is well pleased with his
added job, however, as he is sure
to have a strong quartet in at all
times, regardless of who win the
honor of beng called regulars.
Tom Whelan'S graduation leaves
his left halfback position an open
The Washington times., 1933-09-12
FIGHTERS WAIT
CONG TONIGHT

NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-In a
ring erected on the spot where a
few weeks hence Carl Hubbell will
pitch the opening game of the
world series for the Giants
against the Senators, Barney Ross
and Tony Canzoneri tonight will
try to reenact for the edification
of some $4,000 cash customers the
drama they recently staged in
Chicago.
These young business men are
scheduled to travel IS rounds
with the lightweight title at stake
and inasmuch as one boy is Jew
and the other an Italian, the bout
is what Broadway calls natural.
So natural, in fact, the gate is ex-
pected to reach $160,000, of which
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's
milk fund for babies will receive
a considerable share.
You may recall their last bout
was closer than the quills on a
porcupine's back, with Ross lift
ing the crown from Tony's CORFU
gated brow on a decision that Chi
cago termed correct and New
York thought was slightly Ca
membertian.
In any event, Ross holds the
title, and with it he carries the
increased confidence that seems
inevitably to go with a diadem
jauntily perched over one ear.
Both are apparently as fit as
rigid training can make them.
Tony has been far more impress
sive in his workouts but this in
itself means nothing. Many a
great fighter has looked worse
than a paluka in a gym.
Some of the boys in the fight
racket believe there was a gen
tleman'S agreement" in the last
fight, but agree this one will be
strictly the Mccoy.
Others think Canzoneri held the
Jewish boy too lightly and init
mate Tony gave more thought to
his dancing form than he did to
his ring footwork.
The Washington times., 1933-09-12
A Twinkling of Eye

None of which is by way Of
taking anything away with
Cronin and Myer who are
sandwiched between Bluege
and Kuhel, except that it must
be remembered that the Kan
garoo is the neophite of Wash
ington'S infield quartet, and
despite his abbreviated oppor-
tunty to make the grade, fits
in perfectly and often sensa-
tionally, with his elder and
more experienced infield breth-
Ten.
It may be that in the light of
developments, the presence on
the Washington club of Joe
Judge for a couple of years after
Kuhel arrived, might have held
the kangaroo back. That is to
say that what Kuhel needed was
every day work, although there
is no doubt that it would be
The Washington times., 1933-09-12
NeIUs He Is Slated
As Giants Prery
SURPRISES Walker

EVIAN-LES-BAINES, France,
Sept. RI am surprised to
hear the report that A. C.
Blumenthal has bought the
New York Giants and that I
am to become president" for
mer Mayor James J. Walker
said today.
II have not had any offer
and 1 have not even heard from
BIumenthaI."
Walked admitted, however, that
some time ago two persons who
were dickering for the Giants Of
fered him the presidency if they
succeeded in buying.
He would not name these mer
but he said Blumenthal was not
concerned in the deal.
The former mayor refused tt
say whether he would accept the
presidency of the Giants.
81 would consider it in due
course" he commented.
Walker is here with his wife
the former Betty Compton, mu-
sical comedy actress, who is con-
valescing from a recent illness.
The Washington times., 1933-09-12
Myer Started It

Bevo Brown, an astute base
ball observer, whose memory
goes away back in the annals of
major league baseball and who
has consequently seen many a
star flash across the baseball
armament and fade when his
number went up, has a novel
answer to the favorable posi-
tion in which Washington finds
itself today with respect to the
Yankees.
''WashingtOn started taking
long strides forward on Black
Tuesday, April rs, when Buddy
Myer kicked the stuffings out
Of Ben Chapman" declares
BevO, and there may be sound
logic in his views.
Often our adverSaries have a
great deal more respect for us
after we rise up in righteous in
dignation over long-continued
abuses, and it does seem that as
soon as New York was shown
We were nobody to be kicked
around, Washington has more
or less come into it's own in a
baseball way.
Don't you think?
Or do yOui
The Washington times., 1933-09-12
Last Nights Fights

At New York-Ruby Goldstein.
New York welterweight, knocked
out Herman Perlick, kalamazoo.
Mich; one round. Mike Belloise,
New York featherweight, defeated
Vincent Renta, Spain; six rounds.
Harry Ebbets, New York light
heavyweight, knocked out Dick
Evans, California; two rounds.
At West Springfield, Nasal
RosSi, Newark IN. j. middle
weight, defeated Battling Archie,
Hartford, Conn.,: 10 rounds.
At Chicago-Solly Dukelsky.
Chicago welterweight, defeated
Jackie Purvis, Indianapolis; eight
rounds. Harry Booker, Chicago
negro featherweight, defeated
Johnny Fitzpatrick, of New York;
six rounds. :
The Washington times., 1933-09-12

considered a genuine opportun-
ity for any aspiring first base
man to have the benefit of a
season or so watching Joe
Judge strut his stuff at first.
However, if Judge was the
post on which Kuhel leaned the
two previous seasons, it was GER
tainly a blessing to Kangaroo
Joe when Judge pulled stakes
and left Kuhel to walk without
crutches.
The lad has certainly gone a
long way in the last couple of
seasons and it is not uncommon
to hear the "ohs" and "ahs"
ripple through the stands when
Joe Kuhel officiates on some
impossible drive or starts a
scintillating double play.
The Washington times., 1933-09-12
Marcum's Home Town
Sets Aside Sept. 7
To Honor Debut

EM1NENCE, KY, Sept. 12.
The home town of Johnny
Marcum, Connie Mack's recruit
pitcher, today set aside Sep
tember z as "Sportsman's Day"
in tribute to his major league
debut on that date, when he
shut out the Cleveland Indians,
6 to 0.
BY order Of the city council
here, the day was designated
"for all time" as a holiday for
sport.
The Washington times., 1933-09-12
MRS. VARE GETS
86 IN RETURN

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 12.-Ap-
pearing in her first tournament
competition this year, Mrs.
Glenna Collett Ware, five times
women's national golf champion,
scored an Sc to take second place
in the Mary Thayer Farnum Cup
tournament.
Miss Frances Williams, of AL
lentown, Pa, occupied first with
"a. The final 18-hole round is
scheduled.
Mrs. Ware forsook golf for sew
eral months because of the birth
of a baby girl.
The Washington times., 1933-09-12
A Big Mouthful

You will notice that in the
above paragraphs we speak of
Kuhel in the same breath with
Judge and Bluege. So we do,
and that is a mouthfull, if we
may revert to the lingo of the
1literate.
Kuhel hasn't exactly made
the Washington fans forget Joe
Judge, but they do see in the
Kansas City kangaroo a fitting
successor to Judge, age, weight
and previous condition of SER
vitude considered.
For instance, in yesterdays
game, the Kangaroo, made five
unassisted putouts around the
first base, one of them border
ing on the sensational as
much as several such put
outs as he has registered at
his favorite bag since the team
started its present home stand.
At grabbing grounders too
far away for either Myer or
the pitcher to handle, and
scampering back to the bag
often sliding in ahead of or
under the batter, Kuhel has no
equal in the league right now
and we are not forgetting the
likes Of Lou Gehrig and Jimmy
Foxx.
And too, the Kangaroo fields
his position in quite the same
capable and efficient, say
nothing of unostentatious man.
ner that does Ossie Bleuge
field his position.