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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
SAYS FARM BOARD
|. BOUGHT GOOD WILL
McCarI Reports Agency Got
Millions at Low Rate,
Loaned at High.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An exhaustive investigation of the
Farm Board and its related agencies
has brought disclosure that the Farmers
National Grain Corporation borrowed
millions from the Government at one
eight of per cent, while farmers paid
as high as and per cent for the
money.
This and other facts were contained
in a report to the Senate on long in
quiry made by Controller General Nc
Carl Senator Norris, Republican, OF
Nebraska, had the study made and a
special investigator now is analyzing
McCarl's findings for the Senate Agri-
culture Committee.
The Farmers National was organized
under auspices of the Farm Board and
dealt with the Grain Sterilization Cor
poration, also created by the board for
its grain price pegging enterprise.
$IO0, 600 for Good VIII.
McCarl said the Farmers National
bought grain-handling facilities from
Farmers Union Terminal Elevator ASso-
citation, st. Paul, for a price including
500, 900 for good will" The president
OF LIle OL. Edul COLAPdly was W. W.
Thatcher, a director of the Farmers
National, who subsequently resigned the
dictatorship and was appointed Wash
ington Representative" of the corpora
ton at $4,000 year. He stin has the
place.
This 500 900 was one item Of a
$500, 900 total shown by the report TO
have been paid out for good will" In
the purchase of grain terminal proper
ties.
McCarl said the Farmers National
still owes the Farm Board $4,000, 600.
The one-eighth interest rate was made
possible by the agricultural marketing
act provision that the interest to be
charged co-operatives should not exceed
the net yield TO purchasers of Govern
ment securities. The money, said the
report, was lent to regional co-opera-
tives, which paid as high as and 4
per cent for it, and in turn made loans
to farmers at prevailing local rates,
many and Z per cent.
Concerns Mentioned.
Another disclosure was that though
the management of the Farmers Ma
tional and the Grain Sterilization Cor
poration was interlocked and the two
shared one Office at Chicago, the for
mer charged commission totaling $463,-
464 on future contracts handled for the
Sterilization unit.
McCarl's report, a voluminous factuai
statement without critical comment,
contained an exhaustive analysis of the
boards activities in attempting to sta
Billie wheat prices on basis of $1.25 a
bushel for No. Northern at Minneap-
oils
This atteYopt WAS made hecinninU I'm
1929 after Alexander Legge, then chair
man of the board, said sterilization
would provide more orderly market
ing" and counterfeit the price-depress-
ing influences of the market-ward rush
of grain that Fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
H. H. CLARKE BURIAL
TO BE HELD TODAY
Attorney With Agriculture De.
partment, Native of Wash
ington, Dies at 4S.

Harold H. Clarke, 48, attorney in the
office of the solicitor of the Department
of Agriculture, died Thursday at his
home, 1441 Spring road. Funeral ser
vices were to be held at pm. today
at the S. H Hines funeral home, follow
ed by burial In Glenwood Cemetery.
A native Of this city, Mr.. Clarke
graduated from the Georgetown Law
School in 1909. and in the following year
entered the Department of Agriculture,
where he had been since, with the ex-
ception of a short time in 1929, when
he practiced law privately in Missoula,
Mont, with the firm of Russell, MAIDEN
& Clarke.
He was member of the bar of the
United States Supreme Court. as we'll
as the District and Montana bars and
the Federal Bar Association.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Anne L. Clarke, and son, Ray M.
Clarke
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
SWIMMING CLASS
OPENS NEXT WEEK
More Than $50 Men Have
Signed for Course to Be
Conducted at Y. M. C. A.

There were 80 deaths by drowning
in the District of Columbia during 1892,
according to a report submitted to the
Census Bureau yesterday by the Bureau
of Vital Statistics of the District Health
Department.
Twenty-nine of these victims of wa
ter accidents were men or boys. A ma
jority of them, it is said, were unable
to swim. Suicidal drownings were not
included in the total reported.
In 1881 the total was SO, the depart
ment's records show. A few years
ago the number of persons accidentally
siderably higher.
New Course Next Week.
Authorities attribute the gradual de-
crease in fatalities to the annual learn
to-swim drives, as well as improved
supervision of public swimming.
Because of the large preponderance
of deaths among men and boys, The
Star and the Y. M C. A. have joined
In an annual campaign to teach per-
sons of the masculine sex how to take
care of themselves in the water. Sew
eral hundred boys were taught the
swimming art during the recent Easter
holiday season and next week free
given in the big pool of the Central
Y. M. c. A. at 1886 g street.
ESQ Men Signed for Course.
More than $50 men have signed up
for the six lessons, according to pre-
lirninary tabulation and dozens of ap-
plications were coming in during the
day. Registration will continue until
the opening Of the course Monday
morning.
Ten classes will be held daily under
the instruction of Kenneth Clayton and
Dallas Shirley, Y. M. G. A. and Red
Cross swimming experts. -Four Of the
classes already have their quota Of 80
men. Half-hour instruction periods will
prevail Additional classes will be
formed IL the demand warrants.
There are no fees or obligations OF
any kind. To enroll, clip the coupon
printed herewith and exchange it at
the Y. M. c. A. for registration card,
emitting applicant to six lessons. All
essential equipment, including towels
and soap, will be supplied free by the
Y M. @. A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
ACREAGE IN COTTON
IS CUT 30PER CENT.
Bonuses Offered to Farmers
Who Reduce Their Crop
Production.
BY the Associated Press.

Spokesman for the American Cotton
Cooperative Association and the
American Farm Bureau Federation to-
day recommended 80 per cent acreage
reduction in the current cotton crop
and the payment of bonuses to farm
ers who reduce their output.
c. O. Moser of New Orleans, secre-
tary of the cooperative, said sub
Stantial reduction is essential in order
to bring back better times to the cot
ton producer, because of the large sur
plus of American cotton, which he es-
Inmates as IN excess OF u; BIT, GEO bales.
He added that payments direct 70
producers for acreage reduction should
be a fundamental in any plan adopted.
He was presenting the attitude of the
cooperative at meeting of producers,
professors. ce-operatives and cotton deal
ers, called by George N. Peek, admin
iStrator of the new farm act.
Bonus Is Labor Payment.
Moser added that the extension serv-
ice of the State and Federal Govern
ments, together with farm organiza-
lions, co-operatives and other groups
are ready to put any acreage reduc-
ton proeram into effect quickly.
He urged early adoption of a cur
tailment plan in order to reduce the
cost of leasing or otherwise removing
from production portions OF areas
planted to cotton.
Chester Gray, Washington repre-
sentative, explained the attitude OF
the Farm Bureau, reading a letter
from Edward A. ONeal, president of
the organization. 1t recommended that
the present crop be reduced 80 per
cent and that the payments OF bonuses
for reduction be made directly to
growers on a basis which. would fairly
compensate them for labor.
The labor payment would be for
planting the crop and cultivating 1t
up to the time it would be plowed up.
"a. Abnormal Situation.
Fred Brenckman, Washington repre-
sentative of the National Grange, urged
an acreage reduction of at least 20 per
cent and the use of processing taxes to
provide funds to pay bonuses to growers
reducing the crop.
Secretary Wallace, in opening the
conference, said the recent rise in cot
ton prices in anticipation of probable
acreage reduction under the farm act
has reduced the capacity of admins
traitors to work out plan Of crop cur
tailment.
AS the price of cotton has increased,
it has reduced the amount which could
be raised by processing taxes to finance
acreage reduction and also has had the
effect of increasing the desire Of pro-
ducers to continue with their planted
areas.
Peek said eve have an acutely abb
normal situation to deal with"
c. A. Cobb of Atlanta, cotton pro-
duction administrator, presided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
A. F. |. WILL INSIST
ON BARGAIN CLAUSE
Green Warns of Fight on
Recovery Bill if Feature
Is Eliminated.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A warning that labor would urge
rejection by Congress of the national
revised to deny labor the right to or
ganise and bargain collectively. was
issued today by President william
Green of the American Federation of
Labor.
The statement was made public as
several hundred members of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
convened at the Maydower Hotel to in
sist upon changes in the measure
passed by the House, including the
labor provisions.
Inconsistence Charged.
1.-THE opposition Of the Manufacturers
Association to the labor sections Of the
industrial recovery act places it in a
most selfish as well as a most incon-
sistent position" Green said "They are
consistent only in their traditional op-
position to the exercise of the right of
the workers to organize into bona fide
trade unions.
THE Manufacturers Association Is
willing that its members shall exercise
the right to organize, to establish a
closed shop, so far as employers are
concerned, under the protection of the
Government, but they are unwilling to
accord to labor the right to organize
and to be represented by representatives
of their own choosing.
Position IndefensibIe.
"Such a position Is indefensible. It
is inconceivable that Congress would
grant to employers the right to fix
prices, through a closed organization
of employers, and deny their workers
the right to organize and be repre-
sented by representatives Of their own
choosing"
Green said labor would appeal to its
friends in Congress to vote against the
bill if the labor sections, as adopted by
the House of Representatives, are
eliminated or modified"
The manufacturers contend the labor
section of the legislation as now drafted
would upset the relations between en-
ployers and employees and open the way
for "racketeers'' to seek organization
Of labor throughout the Nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
$500, 900 GOES HOME
FROM FORESTRY CAMPS
5000 Checks Are Distributed
Throughout Southern States for
Conservation Camp Work.
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
FORT MCPHERSON, Ga, June B.
More, than $500, 600 was en- route yester-
day to homes of families whose boys
are In the Civilian Conservation Corps
of the 4th Corps Area.
The checks-approximately $4,000 of
them-were mailed Thursday night.
The money Is part of the wages Of
boys in the conservation corps. Fami-
lies whose sons have been In camp
month will get SIS. Other checks are
for the proportional part of the SIS,
depending on length Of service of the
worker.
Tennessee families win get $50, 900,
the largest amount for any state In the
area. Other amounts for States are:
Georgia, 1000; Florida, $4,000;
Alabama, $45. 600; Mississippi. $4,000;
Louisiana. 81, 600: North Carolina,
So. 900; South Carolina, $54 900.
More than 81 900, 900 viii be put in
circulation monthly in the area
eventually when the enrolment of
$4,000 Is completed,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
ROOSEVELT PLAN
TO SAVE BILLION
Sees Economy in DismissaIs,
Reduced Salaries and
Activity Examinations.

From the $50 Edition Of Yesterdays starr
President Roosevelt expects to save a
billion dollars in governmental expenses
next year despite the fact he is not
going ahead Immediately with his full
governmental reorganization program.
In the Presidents opinion, the saw
ing in actual money through reorgani-
zation is comparatively small. The
saving will come from dismissals, re-
duced salaries and complete elimination
Of certain activities. In his opinion,
reorganization is primarily to promote
efficiency and better business in govern
ment.
The President, in discussing this sub
ject today, said he feared there was
some misunderstanding as result of
his announcement early in the week
that he did not intend to 60 ahead at
this time with his full reorganization
program. He has received indications
that people have the opinion that by
postponing his general reorganization
plan in its entirety he Is abandoning
his purpose to bring about a Is per
cent reduction in governmental ex-
penses.
This Interpretation, the President said,
Is entirely erroneous. He said also that
it must not be assumed that money is
to be saved through reorganization. AS
matter of fact, the importance Of re-
organization in its relationship to actual
money-saving has been grossly exagger-
ated. he believes.
Already a number of changes have
been made by what is described as in
tra-departmental orders. He said these
orders will be going along virtually
every day. Moreover, he expects to
send to Congress probably a dozen ex-
ecutive orders early next week, which
will effect changes in several of the
departments set-up.
BY way of explanation of his con-
tention that reorganization has little
to do with actual money saving, the
President pointed out that the Depart
ment of Commences appropriation for
the present fiscal year was SAL ,000, 900
and that this department is now eff
fecting saving of $12,000.000 for the
next year, but that reorganization has
had nothing to do with this large re-
ductions in expenses. The saving was
NN~SAAFAoAANA ny 3ORP2A~5 OAA dNVAfASAGo
ana economy. He pointed out that
probably million and half dollars
more could be saved by the reorgani
cation plans for that department.
The President ssid he also is cutting
down the number of commercial at
taches of the Department of Commerce
from a total of $50 to about so and
that he will effect some little saving
there. He added that his reorganiza-
ton plan will call for transfer of the
attaches from the Commerce Depart
ment to the State Department, but
that the transfer itself, which is a part
Of the reorganization plan, will mean
nothing so far as saving is concerned,
but will mean much for efficiency.
The President roughly figures his
estimated ST 900 900 900 saving by cut
ting about $500 ,000, 900 in veterans al
lowances, about $500 900, 900 in depart
mental activities and about $125,0 in
salary reductions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
WHEAT PROSPECTS
CHEER SOUTHWEST
Crop Expected to Be Short, but
Prices Show Big Gain Over
Last Year.
Rn the Associated Press

KANSAS CITY. June 3.-The out
look for a small wheat crop is counter
balanced by upward bounding prices as
farmers and hired hands make ready
for the annual harvest in the South
west.
Government estimates Of 9,486, 900
bushels for the present crop in Kansas,
Oklahoma and Texas contrasted with
a total yield of 179,000,000 bushels in
the three States last year. However,
prices are around so cents a bushel.
fast years crop averaged about 20
cents.
started in Oklahoma, where economy
is debating the increased use of horses
and mules in the place of machine
power. Prospects are for crop of 26,-
600 600 bushels in Oklahoma, whereas
last years crop totaled $4,000, 900
bushels.
In Kansas, often called "the bread
basket of the Nation" high winds and
drought have wrought havoc In the
wheat. The latest Government esti-
mates point to a harvest of only So
100000 bushels. Last year the yield
Appropriated lot 100000 bushels. The
bumper crop of the Nations premier
wheat-producing State was that Of
239. 742, 900 bushels in 1881.
Texas wheat farmers expect to har-
vest about 100000 bushels, just half
Of last years figure
All three States report that the local
labor available will be ample to harvest
the crop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
CANNON APPEALS
TO SOUTH'S DRYS
Says Issue Is Doubtful if
Section Does Not Hold
Together.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
Declaring the fate. of the dry law
rests with the Southern States, Bishop
James Cannon, jr., yesterday sent a
letter to $500 pastors of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, which de-
clared:
"If they vote solidly against repeal.
it viii be defeated; If they are much
divided, the issue Is doubtful"
The letter was signed by Bishop Can.
non as president Of the Church's Board
by Eugene L. Crawford as secretary.
1t said "the greatest present danger
is the effort to make the repeal Of the
eighteenth amendment an essential
part Of the program of the Federal adj
ministration.
I'VE greatly deplore that President
Roosevelt emphasized favorably this
distressing violation of the Constitu-
ton in his radio address on May z" the
letter added, land declared that the
sale of beer has already resulted in
considerable unemployment, and Incl
dentally has provided much needed
revenue
President Roosevelt utterly ignored
the fact that every beer truck helps
to displace a milk truck and that the
much needed revenue will be paid
largely by depriving the wives and
children of drinking laboring men Of
the necessities of life.
Many of our political leaders have
utterly failed the people on the prohi-
bition question. They solemply de-
clared against the return of the saloon,
but have sent down to the States for
ratification proposed amendment
which repeats the eighteenth amend
ment outright and offers no substitute
whatever. We must, therefore, face
the momentous fact that the repeal of
the eighteenth amendment does actu-
ally mean the return of the saloon by
whatever name it may be called"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
J. FRED BRADY ELECTED
X. OF C. GRAND KNIGHT
Spaulding Council Holds Annual
Meeting to Choose Officers
for Year.

j. Fred Brady was reelected by
Spalding Council of the Knights of
Columbus, as grand knight. at meet
ing Thursday evening at the club house
of the order.
j. Herbert Walsh was chosen deputy
grand knight; F. II. Heunke, treasurer;
F. j. Malloy, recording secretary;
Thomas F. Carlin, chancellor; r. J.
Creamer, r., advocate; John ]. O'Brien,
warden: James w. Mccormack, inside
guard; F. Z. @. Hipp outside guard:
M. j. McAuliffe and Thomas K. CAL
lagher. delegates to the building COM
pany.
Other officials elected were: Joseph
r. Marsden, jr., trustee: j. Fred Kelly,
outside guard; T. j. Quirk, past grand
knight, delegate to the State conven-
ton, and ]. Herbert Walsh and Thomas
j. Trodden, alternates to the grand
knight and past grand knight, to the
State convention.
Rev Edward H Roach was appointed
chaplain, John NJ Taber was picked
as financial secretary and G. j. San
gelipo assistant warden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
7 DEAD, 20 INJURED
IN FIRE AND BLAST
Four Blocks Burned in Signal
Hill, Calf, After Compress
sion Tank ExpIodes.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SIGNAL HILL, Calf, June 3.-The
richest little city in the world" today
appraised the cost of its first catas-
trophe, an explosion and fire which
blackened an area of four square
blocks, killed seven persons, sent so
more to hospitals and caused damage
Of several hundred thousands of dol
lars.
Signal Hill, adjoining Long Beach at
the northern city limits, still watched
black streamers of smoke drift from the
remnants of oil derricks ravaged yes
terday by conclusion and flame when a
little compression chamber, barely 20
feet long and feet in diameter,
loosed havoc on this rich petroleum
producing area.
Rescue workers searched throughout
the night for additional bodies, but
only two persons definitely were re-
ported missing. OF those in the hos
pitfalls, none was expected to die Of
injuries.
Chamber Explodes.
Latent power in the black gold'
gushing from Signal Hill-which only
II years ago was merely a cucumber
patch-became roaring inferno as the
compression chamber at the refinery on
Richfield Oil Co. properties exploded.
Gas rushed from the tank enveloping
the field in fire.
Conclusion added its destructiveness
as fire licked at oil-soaked derrick
structures in the packed field, demol-
1sh1ng frame buildings within an area
of many blocks and giving rise to fran
tic shouts of earthquake.
AT MaVWOOd IN Y1iIaS franz Cio,, a I
Hill, the explosion was felt with such
force that an earthquake alarm was
sounded and schools were emptied.
Those who lost their lives included
five men, woman and her young
daughter. The men-all employees of
the Richf1eld -company-were trapped
In the company absorption plant. -Four
Of them were credited with sacrificing
their lives in an effort to prevent the
fire.
List Of Dead.
The dead: Duke Gaughan, Bell
flower; Ed Weller, Anaheim; Charles
Cope, Long Beach; C. S. Brown, Fuller
ton; j. L. Shumway, Bellhower; Mrs.
Lottie Carlyon, Long Beach; her daugh-
ter, Marilyn, 8.
only the desperate efforts of 500
men, working in the hot glare of the
flames, prevented oil flowing from
broken storage watts from igniting and
spreading fire to other sections Of the
oil field and residential areas. They
built dirt bikes to divert the OIL
The conclusion destroyed or badly
damaged so residences in the vicinity.
Signal Hill, Long Beach, Wilmington
and Los Angeles Fire Departments an
swered emergency calls. From Navy
ships in the harbor came squads of
bluejackets to aid in rescue work. For
hours the inferno defied efforts to
penetrate the area, but IL hours later
only the tops of some of the doomed
derricks sputtered red.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
AUTO PARTS FIRM VOTES
Rival Groups Submit States for
Stewart Warner Board.

RICHMOND, Va, June Cp).-Stock-
holders Of the Stewart-Warner Co., a
SIS, 600 600 automobile accessory corpora
ton, balloted for a board Of directors
yesterday, but the result of the poll
will not be announced until Wednes-
day.
The recess was taken after the bal
loting to permit the election inspectors
to check the proxies voted.
Two rival groups, representing the
management and the opposition, sub
mitted states of nine names each. with
both sides nominating r. J. Graham
of Belleville, Ontario.
Oscar U. Zerk of Chicago an inven-
tor, led the opposition. He commended
the corporation has paid too large sal
aries to its executives at the expense
of shareholders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
DAMAGES FOR INJURIES
IN GAS BLAST SOUGHT
$500 Is Asked as Result of ExpIo-
sion Near Potomac Which
Killed Two.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md, June 3.-Through
Attorney F. Barnard Welsh Of Rock
vile Ebert Dove, son of Edward M.
Dove of Montrose, has, by his father,
filed suit In Circuit Court here against
the Maryland Gas Transmission Corpo-
ration for damages of $500 for injuries
alleged to have been sustained when a
gas pipe of the defendant exploded near
Potomac on June %, 1882.
1t is represented in the declaration
that the young man, who had been
fishing in the Potomac River nearby,
inhaled flame and gas when the explo-
sion caused leak and the escaping
gas ignited.
The explosion resulted in the deaths
of brother of Dove and John Esputa
Of Rockville, an employe of the gas
corporation, and serious burning of
Willie Slack Nicholson Of near Rock
vile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-06-03
COAST GUARDS WILL Go
ON RANGE AT QUANTIC0
Rifle Instruction to Be Given 25S
Officers and Men During
Next Two Weeks.

Marines at Quantice, Va, for the
next two weeks will instruct Coast
GuardSmen in rife practice.
Marine Corps headquarters, at the
Navy Department, yesterday announced
that the Coast Guard cutters Cayuga
and Sebago have arrived al Quantico
with battalion of 258 officers and en-
listed men.
The Marines will coach the % officers,
rs cadets and $50 enlisted men on the
rifle range. Commanding the Coast
Guard outfit is Capt. Randolph Ridgely,
jr., with Comdr. G. T. Finlay, u. S.
C. c., as chief of staff The squadron
Is from the Coast Guard base at New
London. Conn.
After the rife training, the squadron
viii leave on a two-month training
cruise.