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Evening star., 1933-07-17
Intensive Study Continued by
Johnson, Taking Proposal
to Meeting of Recovery Ad-
visory Board.
NEARLY MILLION AIDED
BY INCREASES IN PAY
Hope Held That as Many More Will
Get Boosts Soon-Another Cloth.
ing Group Files Code-Announce-
ment Of More Hearing Dates
Expected Shortly.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Hugh 8. johnson, the national
recovery administrator, today
continued intensive study of the
plans for a general call to indus
try and business to join in the
wage-raising and work-sharing
drive without waiting for formal
action by the Government on
agreements submitted by the va
rious industrial lines.
Indications were a final decision
might come shortly.
The question, discussed at
length yesterday with President
Roosevelt aboard the yacht
Sequoia on Chesapeake Bay, was
taken up today by the admins
traitor with his legal advisers and
deputy administrators.
Late, Johnson took it to a meet
ing of the Recovery Advisory
Board composed of cabinet mem
bers headed by Secretary Roper.
Results Not Disclosed.
No word as to conclusions pene-
trated from the meeting. It had
been decided, however, that the
enterprise, if undertaken. would
have to be on a volunteer basis
since the law provides no author
lty for general blanket compul.
sion OF business to increase the
purchasing power of it's workers.
Also expected shortly was announce
ment by johnson cf hearing dates for
more codes of fair competition. the
agreements by which business under
the industrial control law obtains self
regulation In exchange for benefits for
labor. Several of these have been sub
mttted to the recovery organization
within the last few days.
Another clothing group filed code
today calling for a 40-hour week and
20 per cent wage increase.
The agreement was submitted by the
Industrial Recovery Association Of
Clothing Manufacturers, made up
mostly Of independents. The first code
was submitted by the Clothing Manu-
facturers Association of the United
States
Nearly Million Get Raise.
For nearly a million working men
and women the depression Is as good as
ended, their wages suddenly lifted back
to the purchasing level of better days
by voluntary cooperation of industry
with Government.
For hundreds of thousands, perhaps
millions more the day holds forth hope
CT similar good luck in the immediate
future
Textile workers-not only cotton, but
rayon. silk and allied products-all over
the North and South, went back to
their mills this morning on a 40-hour
work-week schedule, at rates OF pay
intended to give them the purchasing
power of 1929
Steel Pay Up Is Per Cent.
In steel mills labor today is earning
IS per cent more than last week-in
some cases even better-a boost back
to the level Of 1882. In countless other
industries which have submitted or soon
will present their so-called codes of fair
competition, the compacts by which the
Government allows them to regulate
themselves in exchange for giving labor
Continued on Page 3, Column ~
Evening star., 1933-07-17
GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK
SUBJECT OF COURT CASE
Owner Under Will Contests Right
of Undertakes to Hold Timepiece
Pending Settlement.

The District Supreme Court today
was asked to determine the owner OF
a grandfather's clock (Which the late
Eugene C. Moxley purchased 80 years
ago SO that it may be sold to pay his
funeral expenses.
Moxley, who died April /. lived in the
100 block of I street. The clock, which
cost $1,000, was left in his will to
Marie Dent Carlon Of Upper Darby, Pa.
In a petition filed today, Miss Carlon
said the w. w. Chambers Co. agreed
to handle Mr.. Monkeys funeral for SIT.
The clock, she said, was to be held by
her counsel pending settlement Of
the funeral expenses.
Notwithstanding this agreement, her
petition says, representatives Of the
Chambers Co. went to the dead mans
apartment at am on the day of his
funeral and removed the clock. She
said they have kept it since that time.
Through Attorney Frank Van SAINT,
she asks that collectors be appointed
and that they be given custody of the
clock until it can be sold for settlement
of the funeral expenses.
Evening star., 1933-07-17
EMERGENCY OPERATION MAY SAVE
ARM OF D. C. GIRL, HURT IN CRASH
Dr. H. N Kerr Answers Sons Call When Elkton Physi-
clans Feared Amputation Necessary.
the Summer, the patient was doing
nicely" afterward

the Summer, the patient was doing
nicely" afterward.
The four young people were returning
from a week end in New York whom
the accident occurred. They left the
Metropolis about 8 o'clock and it was
shortly after midnight when the truck
smashed into them. The driver Of the
other vehicle was detained by police.
Miss Small is the daughter of the late
Robert Small, former Washington news
paper man.
Similarly injured in a hit-and-run
smash-up near Paramus, N. j., Alex
ander McKinnon. former Metropolitan
policeman, lost his left arm through
amputation. An Associated Press dis
patch from the New Jersey town said
the driver sped away after the accident.
A short while after the crash police
of Bergen City arrested Joseph Dur
1nski, 26, Of Bloomingdale, N. j., who
they said Was the driver Of the truck.
He was accused Of reckless driving and
leaving the scene after an accident.
McKinnon was dismissed from police
the force February 2S, 1881. He had
served on the force six years and at the
time was stationed as clerk ut the De-
Evening star., 1933-07-17
5000 ARE ON STRIKE
AT HIGH POINT, N. C.
Minor Disorder Marks Walkout Of
Hosiery and Furniture Work.
ers Asking Raise.
By the Associated Press.


HIGH POINT, N. c., July ia
strike affecting approximately 5000
hosiery and furniture plant operatives
went into effect here today when mill
officials did not meet q demand for Q
Is per cent wage increase
Only one minor disorder was re-
ported and no extra police were on
hand.
Twenty-Five seamless hosiery plants.
employing approximately 1000 workers,
and IS furniture factories employing
approximately 1000 operatives were
closed
Several window panes were broken
when employees attempted to return to
work at one hosiery mill but this dis
turbance was quieted and the plant
closed.
Meanwhile, a large part Of the city's
industries continued operation with
cotton and silk mills, full-fashioned
hosiery plants and few furniture fac
tories operating on regular schedules.
Many we're thrown out Of work by
action of fellow workers who put into
effect the strike announced over a
week ago when the wage increase and
an eight-hour day shift was demanded.
Evening star., 1933-07-17
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SAN FRANCISCO, July II (N.A.N.A9.
From the shores of California, object
for 200 years of the worlds explorers,
q smiling American sailed today on what
may be the last exploration Of lands
still unseen by human eyes.
For Lincoln Ellsworth his flight over
unexplored regions Of the wild and life
less Antarctic continent Is the last
great adventure" as it may be the clos
ing chapter in the age-long history OF
mans conquest of the earth's surface.
But for the veteran Of three con-
quests of the Arctic. the departure from
San Francisco Bay was an occasion for
thoughts on many subjects besides his
stupendous flight.
A longing for the "glamorous" days
of the old West and the life OF .
cowboy or q two-gunned sheriff and
philosophical reflections upon the worth
OF the very science which Is making the
flight possible were strangely mixed IN
the talk Of the tanned explorer.
II make use of modern scientific won
ders," he said. because they will make
my exploration much more valuable.
But I'd rather be taking the trip on
. dog slsd - I'd rather have lived the
life Of wyatt carp. after whom my
ship, which ~ take US to Ross Bay
Evening star., 1933-07-17
Germans Suspend
Paper That Called
Gen. Balbo Jewish
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 1.-The news
paper Deutsche Zeitung was
suspended today for three
months for alleging that Gen.
1talo Balbo, Italian air minister,
now in Chicago, is q baptized
Jew.
Hermann Goering, NaI min
lister without portfolio, personally
ordered the suspension and i'm
mediate imprisonment Of the
responsible editor in . concen-
tration camp.
This slanderous allegation
originated In Vienna and was in
tended to undermine German
Italian friendship" an ofncial
announcement said.
Newspapers printing anything
likely to disturb Germany'S
foreign relations will be ruth
lessly dealt WITH" the announce
ment added.
Evening star., 1933-07-17
LAST GREAT ADVENTURE STARTS
FOR ELLSWORTH IN POLE FLIGHT
Leaves West Coast for Base From Which to Soar 1900
Miles Over Frozen Antarctic Continent.

where the flight will commence. is
named"
With Ellsworth on the Matson liner
Lurline were his bride Of two months
Mrs. Mary Louise Ellsworth, and her
mother, Mrs j. L. Ulmer Of Pottsv1lle,
Pa. The two will stay in New Zealand,
from which Ellsworth will proceed in
the Wyatt carp with Bernt Balchen,
noted flyer, who will pilot the plane,
Sir Hubert wilkins and mechanics and
radio men.
From Ross Sea the powerful, speedy
monoplane will take of, carrying only
Ellsworth and Balchen on the 1900
mile round trip. nonstop flight across q
continent bigger than Europe. Ellsworth
will navigate and photograph the un-
seen land. Balchen, fellow adventurer
toward the pole on the Norge In 1926,
will handle the radio and pilot.
Three months rations, q hand sled
and three flags, that Is the equipment.
The flags are an American flag, made
by Ellsworth's niece, Glare Prentice,
daughter Of captain Of the American
Davis Cup team. and the pennants OF
the American Geographic Society In
Washington and the New York Athletic
Club.
I'VE will carry no guns" Ellsworth
said. What use? There Is no life 3
miles In from shore"
Mrs. Ellsworth will keep In daily touch
with her husband through the radio.
(Ccpyrisat. 49," ~ North American News
paper Alliance. Incl
Evening star., 1933-07-17
Scars on Way
Across Russia
After Rest.
WEATHER GOOD
ONLONC FLIGHT
Ahead of Schedule
of Former Trip
at Moscow.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, July 17.-Wiley Post,
American round-the-world solo
flyer, landed here from Koenigs-
berg, Germany, this afternoon
and a few hours later scared east
ward on the 1,818-mile journey to
Novosibirsk in Siberia.
The most perfect possible
weather conditions prevailed from
Moscow as far as the Ural Noun
tains. Local weather of1lcials, who
gave the airman full meteorologi-
cal information before he left,
said it was probable that the pres
ent cloudiness between the Urals
and Novosibirsk would clear up
before he reached that area.
Refuses Chance to Sleep.
Post refused chance to snatch
a few minutes sleep at the
Moscow airport that he might
speed up mechanicians working
on his plane.
1t was 5:12 p. m. (9:l2 am, E. S. T.)
when the American fier started the
Novosibirsk leg Of his journey. He had
been in Moscow hours and 50 min
utes.
When he sped away from the Soviet
capital, a more than 4s-hour growth
Of beard had disappeared from his
face, as he spent IS minutes OF his
short stay here in the airport barber
shop.
Ahead Of Former Time.
Post and Gatty had an elapsed time
of 81 hours and "a minutes when they
reached Moscow.
Post made the trip from Koenigsberg
to Moscow in hours and IS minutes.
and had therefore an elapsed time of
so hours and 10 minutes on his arrival
in the Soviet capital. He was behind
the schedule he had arranged for him
self, but was hours and "a minutes
ahead Of the flight he made with Gatty
The Oaklahoman lost time in Berlin
because of delays in refueling and later
In Koenigsberg because OF rain.
His monoplane swooped down sud
denly out of the west, circled october
field and then made perfect landing
The airman took by surprise airport
officials and the corps Of foreign cor
respondents, who had not expected him
to halt in Moscow, particularly be-
cause he spent the night at Koenigs-
berg a comparatively short distance
away,
Evidently Exhausted.
Post climbed out stif1ly. as his plane
TAXED to q halt. He swayed from ex-
haustion after his feet touched the
ground
II need some work on the ship and
also some gas and OIL" he said.
Airport officials hustled him into a
private room at Airdrome headquarters
and doctor examined him.
The airman gave orders to remove
Continued on Page 4, Column 1)
Evening star., 1933-07-17
Mother Succumbs
To Burns Trying,
To Kill Children
Three Youngsters Escape
After Parent Attempts
to Slay Them and Self.
BY the Associated Press.


WINDSOR, Ontario. July 17-Mrs
Annie Brookbanks, 43, set fires under
the beds Of her three sleeping children
early today, Windsor authorities said,
and then soaked her clothing in kero-
sene and ignited it. She was burned to
death.
The children were uninjured. They
are Hilda. l3, and Billie and Duncan,
1O-year-old twins.
Investigators asserted the children
were awakened by the smell of smoke.
They declared the mother shut herself
III the kitchen and there set fire to her
clothes. Then she ran screaming from
the house.
Neighbors found her badly burned and
rushed her to q hospital, where she
died. The unhurt children were on the
lawn
Richard Brookbanks, father Of the
children. a railway employe. could not
explain the incident.
MY wife was all right when I left
to 60 to work." he said. she kissed
me good by and the next I knew OF
this terrible thing was when was
called from work"
Evening star., 1933-07-17
D. c. EMPLOYMENT
SITUATION BETTER
Civil Service Commission An
nounces Jobs for go Over
Week End.

The local employment situation today
continued to show the improvement re-
ported Saturday by the Civil Service
Commission, when it was announced
there that requests had been received
over the week end for between 60 and
10 persons to fill jobs both in the new
emergency agencies and in the regular
establishments Of the Government.
Personnel for these divisions is being
taken from the Unemployment register
of the commission when eligibles are
available, and, If not, from the regular
registers established by competition, or
through interservice transfers.
Increase Concurrent.
At the commission it was said that
the increase in requests had come con-
currently with the expressed intention
of President Roosevelt to give workers
dropped or about to be dropped in the
current retrenchment program the pref
erence over outside applicants.
It Is realized that the number OF re-
employments Is only small percentage
of the separations since July l, but the
upward trend is viewed encouragtngly.
The commission Is planning to issue
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1933-07-17
finn FLYER REACHES
HERE BEFORE NOON
Capt. Vaino Bremen Completing
Around-the-Wo orld Trip by Plane
and Steamship.

Capt. Vaino Bremen, former Finnish
air force pilot, who now is completing
a trip around the world by airplane and
steamship, arrived in Washington
shortly before noon today from
Montreal, Canada.
Capt. Bremen left Helsinki, Finland
on May IL and few through Central
Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, India,
Siam, Indo-C China, China and Japan
and then crossed by boat from Toxic
10 San Francisco. He Is now complet-
ing the crossing of the United States
an his airplane, q low-wing German
monoplane with an 80-horsepower
engine.
Capt. Bremen was welcomed at
Washington Hoover Airport by Federal
aviation officials and representatives OF
1the Finnish legation. A reception in
his honor will be given by the Finnish
lcharge d'affaircs. Elmo Walikangas, at
I the Mayhower Hotel from 5 to pm
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1933-07-17
WHEAT PRICES SOAR
) CENTS IN FURRY
$1.27 Mark Set at Chicago.
Cotton and Securities
Also Advance.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO July 17.-Wheat seemed
so scarce to Board Of Trade brokers to-
day that it shot up cents q bushel in
two hours today.
THIS rise on top of many others put
some options at $127 a bushel, triple
the quotations six months ago when
wheat reached low record for the last
80 years
Flour rose to new flve-year record
in Minneapolis, gaining 80 cents a bar
rel to a top of sS95. including $1.3s
Federal processing tax assessed to pay
farmers to grow less wheat.
Flax seed shot up 16 cents bushel to
1924. The oily seeds opened 8 cents
higher and soon rose as much more at
Minneapolis
Barley gained attention on the Chi
cago Board of Trade as wheat drove
through $1.27, the brewing grain sky
rocketing IL cents a bushel to nearly
"a cents.
Notable steadiness Of offerings of
barley made prices for that grain ad-
vance at times doubly faster even than
wheat. When wheat jumped above
$1.27, barley showed a gain Of IL cents
a bushel today to 1894 for December
contracts.
Evening star., 1933-07-17
TAKEN BY MISTAKE,
LUER TOLD BY GANG
Says Kidnapers Informed Him
They Meant to Seize
Relative.
BY the Associated Press.

ALTON, Ill. July 1.-THE release Of
August Luer, 77-year- Alton banker,
was preceded by receipt of series OF
notes demanding ransom from q KID
nap gang whose members told the pris-
oner he had been seized by mistake.
These developments came to light to-
day as the wealthy banker rested in
the home to which he was returned
yesterday, and Federal, State and coun-
ty officers joined in a widespread
search tor the abductors' den.
At q conference with Department Of
Justice men, active in the investigation
despite the announced withdrawal OF
all police officials from the case at the
request of the victims family. Luer
said he was told by the gang that they
had meant to take Herman Luer. 1t
was not clear whether the reference
was to the bankers son Herman, or
his brother by the same name.
Denies Ransom Payment.
Although the first note from the
abductors, received Wednesday, de-
manded 100000, Carl Luer. the kid
naped mans son, asserted again today
that no money had been PAID. Well
advised persons believed $4,000 was
given the gang before the banker was
released, near q resort on q highway
near Collinsville, Ill.
Carl Luer declined to say how much
money had been raised for use OF rep
resentatives of the family who nego-
tiated with the kidnapers.
A series OF note exchanges was start
ed with receipt by Carl Luer. Wednes-
day morning, Of letter mailed in st.
Louis. 1t read:
Carl Luer: Get 100000 dollars
for your fathers release-instruc-
tions will follow-act Immediately, as
medicine is low-when money is ready,
insert in earliest edition Of st. Louis
newspapers personal columns the fol-
lowing words-'John. come home
mother is ILL., Act now"
The following was inserted in the
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Evening star., 1933-07-17
NAMED LABOR SECRETARY
Miss Charlotte Carr Is Given Post
in Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG, Pa, July II R.-
Gov. Pnchot today named Miss Char
lotte E. Carr as secretary Of labor and
industry to succeed DR.. A. M. Northrup
who charged in his resignation last
week that Miss Carr had been foment-
ing strikes in period of widespread
industriel difficulties. Miss Carr was
chief of inspection in the department.
Evening star., 1933-07-17
PLANS ARMS TALK.

BERLIN, July IT (P).-Arthur Hen
derson, president of the Geneva Dis
armament Conference, arrived here to-
day and visited Foreign Minister Won
Neurath and Rudolf Nadolny for dis
cussions on the arms problem. Mr..
Nadolny has been Germanys represent
ative at the Geneva parley.
Evening star., 1933-07-17
YORK HITS FARLEY TALK

Tells Neighbors to Disregard Post
master Generals Repeal Advice.
PAIL MALL, Tenn, July II (P.-
Sergt. Alvin c. York, World War hero,
told his neighbors at a dry rally here
Yesterday to disregard the repeal advice
given by Postmaster General James A.
Farley, In an address at Memphis Sat-
urday night.
I'VE don't need these Eastern guys to
come down here and tell lis how to
vote" said York, in urging support OF
the eighteenth amendment IN Thurs
days balloting.
Evening star., 1933-07-17
Renews Rumanian Treaty.

ROME, July II (R-Italy today re-
newed for q period Of six months her
treaty of friendship with Rumania.
Many circles had concluded the treaty
would not be renewed in view Of recent
DEVELOPMENTS in Balkan politics.
Evening star., 1933-07-17
QUAKE CAUSES TERROR
India Shocks Send Inhabitants
Running From Homes.

POONA. India, July II (P)-An
earthquake caused flve-hour reign OF
terror here last night. when inhabitants
fed from their homes into open places
In panic. First reports said there was
no damage.
Evening star., 1933-07-17
FIRE ABOARD SHIP
Vessel Expects to Anchor Safely
OF Norfolk.

NEW YORK, July II R.-The crew
of the steamship Ell Occidente was Tight
ing q fire in her No. l hold on Nor
folk, Va, q message picked up by Mac
Kay Radio Corporation early today said.
The message said the fire had been
''localized," that the vessel was not IN
need of any assistance, and that she
expected to anchor3or Norfolk.
Evening star., 1933-07-17
Enters Name in Berlin Book.

BERLIN, July II CR.-Mayor James
Curley Of Boston, entered his name
today in the golden book of the city
Of Berlin.
Evening star., 1933-07-17
Subzero Weather in Parana.

RIO DE JANEIRO, July IL (FD.-Tem-
peratures 10 and IL degrees below zero
were registered in Parana today, the
lowest on record.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
MORATORIUM Plan
URGED FOR FARMS.
Representatives of National
Groups See President on
Hating Foreclosures.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A request for a moratorium on farm
mortgage foreclosures and that farm
prices be pegged at cost of produc-
ton level was put before President
Roosevelt yesterday by representatives
Of the National Farmers Union and
the National Farmers Holiday Associ-
alton.
They prepared to leave last night for
MidweStern States to endeavor to en-
list farmers into a campaign for Re-
covery Administration code for farmers.
The representatives Of the organi
cations said conferences with President
Roosevelt. Secretary Wallace and other
officials had convinced them their code
would be considered.
Its chief provision called for coSt-of-
production prices for farm products.
E. E. Kennedy. secretary of the Ma
tional Farmers Union and spokesman
Of the group, said he was gratifled at
the Farm Credit Administrations effort
to prevent farm foreclosures and evic-
tionS. but believed an absolute mora
torium was the only real solution
When farmers are paid fair prices
for their products, there will be no
farm credit problem" he added. we
are confident the President will step in
when he finds the Farm Credit Admin
1stration'S set-up makes it impossible
for that agency to prevent foreclosures
and evictions entirely"
Imitation Of the currency and elimi-
nation Of further issuance of interest
bearing bonds were also asked of
President Roosevelt in yesterdays con-
ference.
Evening star., 1933-10-08

the smartest and greatest Of contem-
porary European statesmen.
He has whip-crack mind" one
Davis aide said of the Duce.
Among the. British statesmen. Davis
believes Prime Minister Macdonald will
go long way to aid the disarmament
cause
While in Germany, the Davis party
got the impression that the disarma-
ment cause will not find Chancellor
Hitler Of Germany a foe but very likely
a real friend unless he Is forced to alter
his personal views by radical clements
in the Nazi directorate.
"A simple man" who has an uncanny
faculty for sensing the fundamentals
of affairs Of state was the way one
Davis assistant described the German
chancellor.