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Evening star., 1933-12-03
WEST VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY
MAY BEGIN ECONOMY DRIVE
Lawmakers Considering Proposal to
Abolish State Agriculture Department
to Save 100000 Annually.

abolish the States Department Of Agri-
culture, with the view of saving $780,
900 a year. Those who sponsor this
step point out that since the State
maintains an elaborate Agricultural
Extension Department at the West
Virginia University. there is no reason
why the department at Charleston
should be continued 10 duplicate Us
work.
The first duty scheduled to COME be-
fore the two legislative branches on
Wednesday will be to pass bill, drawn
by special committee during the re-
cess, to collect SIS 900, 900 from prop
critics, already past due. which was
held up because the Supreme Court
upset the enabling act passed last year
designed to conform to the new tax
limitation amendment to the Consti-
tuition.
When this bill is out of the way. the
Legislature is expected to go to work
on other measures, and wait for test
case to be taken to the Supreme Court
to ascertain the validity Of the second
enabling act.
Meantime, the lawyakers will be di-
viding their time between proposals for
economy and proposals to raise SILL
900 900 additional. which Gov. H. G.
Kump said would be necessary II
orderly government is to be main
tanned in the counties.
A variety of relief measures already
have been introduced and are now in
the hands of committees. They include
a proposal to declare moratorium on
home mortgages, the sponsor Of the
measure having declared that passage
of such an act would be necessary
since it has become apparent that
thousands Of persons will not and
cannot take advantage. of the Federal
Home owners, Loan Corporation"
No member of the Legislature yet has
suggested an answer to Gov. Humps
reminder that the Federal Government
expects the State to provide S50O,000
month to assist it in carrying on
work and direct relief.
Evening star., 1933-12-03
FOUR OHIOANS In HOUSE
BACK ROOSEVELT ON GOLD
Democratic Newspapers Withhold Com
plete Endorsement of Policy-State
Usually for Sound Money.

administration could wish it to be more
outspoken on the Presidents side in
the controversy precipitated by Prof.
Sprague's resignation.
Ohio people are conservative and
sound money at heart. Even in 1896,
when great distress prevailed and the
free silver coinage advocates were led
by the able and popular William J.
Bryan, Mckinley carried the State on
o sound money platform by more than
$4,000, though there was a large split
off of Gold" Democrats to the ticket
headed by John NJ. Palmer. taking IA
900 votes from the Republican ticket,
for the most part.
Gov White and Senator r. j. Bulkley
have made a complete shift on the
liquor question. Two years ago when
White ran for Governor and Bulkley
for the senatorship, White was pro-
nouncedly dry, as he had been for years,
while Bulkley was uncompromisingly
wet They agreed to disagree though
speaking often from the same platform.
and both were elected.
Evening star., 1933-12-03
LOSS
OF C.. ". 4. FUND
SEEN in FIGHT
POIiticaICOnflictOf-
fers Barrier to Cap
itaI City Project.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WILMINGTON, Del, December g.
Politics, which have been the barrier
to Delaware's participation in the ben
efits of the national recovery act, now
threaten to bar this city, slated to be
the chief beneficiary, from Federal aid
under the Civil Works Administration.
wilmington's expected share, under
the c. w. A. fund. was estimated at ap-
proximately three-fourths of the $780,
900 allotted to Delaware. With this
much-needed aid for the city's needy
procurable, a slash between Mayor Will
liam H. Speer. Democrat, and the
Democratic-controlled City Council over
the proposed program and its admin
istration, resulted in a deadlock
Evening star., 1933-12-03
BY J. H. GALBRAITH.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
OLUMBUS, Ohio. December a
1 OF the Is Democratic members
of the Ohio delegation in the
lower house of Congress. 4
have openly come To- The
defense OF the monetary policy of Pres
ident Roosevelt since the resignation Of
Prof. sprsgue made that side Of his
recovery activity the most important
feature of it. These are C. v. TruaX,
congressman at large: A. P. Lamneck
representing the Columbus district:
william L. Fiesinger of Sandusky and
M. L. Sweeny, insurgent Democrat OF
Cleveland.
Truax and Lamneck have been very
vigorous in their support of the Presi-
dent and Judge Fiesinger has started
a movement to rally the Democrats to
Mr.. Roosevelts side. The other Demo-
Gratis in the delegation have made no
public utterances on the subject.
Congressman McSweeney sent tele-
gram to President Roosevelt indorSing
his monetary policies. McSweeney re-
calls that he stood for Roosevelt when
some Democratic State leaders were for
AL Smith at the Chicago convention.
]. S. Coxey of common veal army
fame declared in a speech at Akron
that Roosevelt is on the right track as
to money. even if he was advocating
"baloney'' money. Andrew Jackson, said
Coxey to the rubber workers union,
pulled the Nation out of hole with
confetti money and Abraham Lincoln
won the Civil War with "baloney'
money.
No important newspaper in the State
has indorsed in an out-and-out way the
money plans of the President. The
Cleveland Plain Dealer, independent
Democratic. which has been vigorously
supporting the N. r. A., has come
nearest to Endorsement of the Presi-
dents imitation plan but friends of the
Evening star., 1933-12-03
TEN THOUSAND JOBS A DAY CUT NEW YORK'S IDLE RANKS
Rhode Island Man
Doubts Authority
Of Welfare Group
Special Dispatch to The Star.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Decem-
Der 2 - Finance Commissioner
Peck, who is also Republican ina
tional committeeman. questions
the constitutionality of the Rhode
Island Emergency Public Works
Corporation, and the opinion of
the State Supreme Court has
been asked on the matter.
This State has a constitution
al limit of S50,000 on borrowings
unless authorized by a popular
referendum. The works corpora
tion was formed to get around
that provision, and the law Gre
ating the corporation gives that
body the right to borrow from
the Federal Government for
State projects and give the Gov
ernment a prior lien on the
works 1t is frankly admitted to
be a circumvention of the consti-
tuition. to the time and trouble
necessary to a referendum on
each item of borrowing.
The State c. w. A. expected to
pay out S4,300,000 in wages in
the next IL weeks. Cities and
towns must provide S1,820,000.
Nearly 5000 men and women
were transferred to c. w. A. lists
in time to receive about $4,000
in the first pay-off under the
new system. Transfers from
unemployment relief lists con-
tinued this week, and the dead
line for such transfers was yes
terday. Starting next week, the
C w. A. will be augmented by
those transferred from the Fed
eral unemployment bureaus.
Governor Green urged all
cities and towns to map out
proper projects on which loans
can be secured, as well as grants,
from the Federal Government
under P. w. A.
Evening star., 1933-12-03
Special Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, December O.
An undercurrent of revolt against
situation which for the last three years
has initiated against much action by
the State Legislature, is developing in
Democratic circles of Alabama.
This movement Is aimed at getting
Democratic members OF the Legislature
committed to a definite program be-
fore election. Inasmuch as the State
lawmaking body Is predominantly DEM
ocratic, election of Democrats with .
unified program would produce excel
lent chances of bringing about situa-
ton in which the Legislature and Gov
ernor would not be at loggerheads, as
they have been during virtually all Of
the present administration of Gov. B.
M. Miller.
The plan is slated to come before
the Democratic State Executive Com
Evening star., 1933-12-03
VIRGINIA EXPECTS
BIG RUM REVENUE
49, 100000 Earnings Seen in
Proposed Plan for Sale
by State Agencies.
BY r. L. c. BARRETT.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, December 2.-Under
the liquor control plan which the COM
mittee which is studying that subject is
expected to recommend to the General
Assembly at its regular session, begin
ming in January, this State would receive
approximately $3,000,000 of revenue.
The plan, which the overwhelming
ma ajority of the committee of Is men,
bers is supporting, is patterned largely
after the Quebec system. Under 1t the
State would sell all spirituous liquors
and put the profits therefrom in the
treasury. For the present no exact
profit figures can be worked out since
it is admitted that sales depend to a
considerable extent on the tax which
the Federal Government will place on
liquor.
,:ut despite the prospect for consid-
cradle liquor revenue, the Legislature
will be hard put to balance the budget,
much less to meet the demands for in
creased appropriations for schools and
departments and to raise sum of ap-
proximately $l,500,000 which the Fed
eral Government insists it devote to
relief purposes.
Evening star., 1933-12-03
SOUTH CAROLINA CHEERFUL
Millions in United States Funds to Bring Power Light and
Water Communities Previously Without.

things are promised. While the State
is criss-croSsed with heavy voltage wires,
there has been transmitted over these
only light and power for large industries
and the larger urban communities. The
farmer, as rule, has been without. 1t
Is now proposed to bring 1t to him, and
when brought it will lift heavy burdens
from his as we'll as from the backs of
the farm woman. These projects are on
a self -liquidating basis
Heretofore only such public projects
have been undertaken as municipal
credits could secure money for, or
which were controlled by corporations
in which 1t Is believed excessive over
heads have imposed lending
burden. The self-iquidating projects
financed by the Government will bear
no such costs, except such as may be
the result Of what some think excessive
labor costs.
Evening star., 1933-12-03
Kentucky Governor
Promises Tas Cut
For Auto OaUnerS
Also Viii Delay Date of
Penalty for Non.payment
for TsUO Months.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOUISVILLE, KY, December 2.-The
farmer, the home owner, the unem-
ployed artisan and even the banker has
tasted some form of relief, but it re-
manned for Gov. Ruby Laffoon this
week to single out another beneficiary
of States fiscal policy-the automo-
bile owner. He made the welcome an
nouncement that he intended to advo-
cate reduction of the automobile IL
cense tax and that he would defer for
two months from January /, the penalty
date for non-payment Of State and
county licenses.
Kentucky motorists have long borne
disproportionate burden of taxation.
II they live In cities, they pay munich
nal license taxes as well as State and
county. All pay ad valorem automobile
taxes to State and county; the majority
to cities also.
Evening star., 1933-12-03
IOW4 BUSINESS ALREADY FEELS
INFLUENCE OF u. S. CORN LOANS

pegged price cannot be sold advantage
ously, Is expected by friends of the
A. A. A. to assure ready acquiescence in
the corn-hog reduction plan. Borrow
ers on corn are automatically COM
mitted to the reduction plan. .s.
william S. Bradley, CenteTville. Iowa,
banker and farmer, who has been in
Washington since July, returned to
Iowa last week as representative of
both the Commodity Credit Corporation
and the A. A. A.
He expressed surprise at the speedy
manner In which the loaning was begun
in Iowa "a hours after contract blanks
had been dispatched from Washington
by airmail.
The first loan was made to W. W. Eal
in Plymouth County on 300 bushels
of warehoused corn The $685., Eral
said. would be used to buy live stock
after 4 few bills were paid,
Evening star., 1933-12-03
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DES MONIES, Iowa, December q
Business in Iowa this last week began
to feel the influence of Federal corn
loans to farmers, though only few
such loans have been made.
= More effective than the loans made
was the optimism engendered every
where by the prospects of pegged corn
price of As cent q bushel and the ulti-
mate prospect of as much as $4,000
600 from corn loans alone In the next
few months.
Thus the 1893 corn crop in Iowa
abnormally large in comparison with
short crops In other corn States
promises to be the salvation of the
State this Winter.
Further the fact that Iowa has a big
corn surplus which, at the current up-
Evening star., 1933-12-03
ALABAMA DEMOCRATS SEEK PLAN
TO SPEED URGENT LEGISLATION

mittee at its meeting in Montgomery,
December Is. 1t is proposed to call
convention which would adopt a party
platform binding upon all Democratic
nominees for the Legislature and other
State Offices.
Considerable support Is reported
among Democratic leaders. The rank
and file have not yet taken so heartily
to the scheme, and it Is possible that
open opposition NAV develop
Political news Is warming UP and
creeping into the headlines, along with
the reports O. steady but uneventful
progress of the State toward business
recovery.
Only one candidate is definitely an
nounced for Governor in the Demo-
cratic primary next May He is Bibb
Graves of Montgomery who held the
ofdce from 1927 to 1881. Alabama law
forbids . successive second term.
Evening star., 1933-12-03
KEYSTONE REPEAL
CONVENTION TOACT
SPEEDILY TUESDAY
Thirty-fourth States Vote to
Be Cast Before Radio
MiCrophone.
BY WALTER ID. ROOS.

Special Disratch to The Star.
HARRISBURG, Pa, December g.
Six lawyers, three housewives, two
bankers, an educator, cotton mer-
chant, a labor executive and a retired
business man will assemble in the
State Senate chamber Tuesday at noon
as Pennsylvania convention to ratify
repeal.
They will cast the thirty-fourth
States vote to end prohibition. With
Ohio and Utah acting later in the day.
Pennsylvania will make no attempt to
prolong the procedure in order to be-
come the thirty-sixth State which puts
repeal "over the top"
This opening scene of the last act
to make liquor legal and taxable will be
played before a microphone which will
carry the drama to a Nationwide
radio audience.
Speedy Action Expected.
Moving with dispatch through a
formal and impressive ceremony. the
Is Pennsylvania delegates are expected
to act so speedily that their certificate
Of ratification Of the twenty-flrst
amendment may be filed in the State
Department at Washington shortly
after 3 pm Tuesday
The convention delegates, elected at
large November 7, all are instructed
to vote for repeal. having been chosen
over a slate of dry candidates by a
million-vote majority after dry leaders
had failed to obtain court orders to
halt the election.
Besides joining in the final days
action to permit other Americans 10
drink legally. Pennsylvania also has
specified how drinking shall be don2
in this State.
Until January l all liquor will bc
dispensed through licensed hotels,
restaurants and clubs. but after tha'
date they may sell only for consumr-
ton on the premises. After January
State stores will have a monopoly E.
bottle and case sales of liquor.
Few Changes in Bill.
The Pinchot administrations contT
bill, embodying the State stores pla-
was enacted this week with few IN
portant changes The major amenc
lnent NberaIyeS restrictions on club
allowing them to sell "a hours a ds
and to have bars. AS far as sales q
concerned, prohibition Will continue !
effect in Pennsylvania every Sund@.
and on all election days.
Operation of the State stores a.
regulation and licensure OF hote-
restaurants and clubs is vested in
State liquor control board of thrc
members The members are Thorn
w. Phillips. jr.. former member {
Congress and opponent of Gov. Pinchs
on a wet platform in the 1880 pri
mary; Robert S. Gawthrop, formC.
Judge of the State Superior Court, ano
A. Marshall Thompson, dean of the
University of Pittsburgh Law School,
Thompson Is a Democrat, the Others
Republicans.
To protect Pennsylvania diStillers.
who are subject to a State floor tax Of
81 a gallon for pre-repeal stored liquor,
a tax of 81 gallon will be imposed
on all liquor imported from other
States until January !.
Evening star., 1933-12-03
INDIANA PLANS
HARD LIQUOR
PACKAGE SALE
Expects Commission
to Rule Against
Open Drinking.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
MnIANAPOIIS Ind

Special Dispatch to The Star.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. December O.
Whether hard liquor can be sold by the
drink or only in packages was the
problem Gov. Paul v. McNutt placed
before special non-partisan advisory
commission this week.
The chances are strong that the
final decision will confine the sale Of
whisky and allied beverages to bottled
packages, but there may be some ex-
ceptions, such as permitting hotels
and restaurants to serve high ball
with meals.
Gov. McNutt, before summoning the
committee into session, reiterated his
opposition to the return of the old
fashioned saloon and the sale Of beer
and whisky from the same place. His
adamant stand on those two matters
would seem to conf1ne the committee
to a rather restricted scope.
Evening star., 1933-12-03

COLUMBIA, S. c.. December with
Sl,O00.000 a week going out under the
civil works program and possibly half
that much more through other Federal
agencies, South Carolina promises to be
fairly comfortable State this Winter.
And when year from now $25, ,000, 900
to $4,000, 900 of Federal money shall
have been spent there will be a marked
improvement in conditions in this State.
Water and sewerage projects in towns
previously without such facilities, devel-
opment of hyroelectric powers, exten-
sions of electric wires to lamp-lighted
communities, drainage of peStilential
swamps and needed public improve
ments in many of the larger towns OF
the state will make a decided change in
conditions of living throughout the
State.
In rural electric lighting alone great
Evening star., 1933-12-03
Tennessee Fears
Nearby Vet States
VIII Be Problem,
Dry Section Sees No
Chance for Liquor
Control LatUS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


MEMPHIS, Tenn, December o.
While it is generally admitted that there
will be no special legislative session in
Tennessee to consider the liquor control
problem, the approach of the date for
elimination of the eighteenth amend
ment finds the people of the State
sharply apprehensive over the effect wet
neighboring State laws will have on the
local situation.
Tennessee is one of those bone-dry
States. 1t is a violation of law to sell
it. to make it, to transport 1t and to
have 1t in possession. The prohibition
laws enacted between 1913 and 1921
made the State SO tight that druggists
were prohibited from handling It, and
physicians could not prescribe It. Last
year the codifers Of the new State
code left the drug store prohibition out
but no advantage has been taken of
it, and druggists uniformly have re-
fused TO handle any alcoholic beverages,
Evening star., 1933-12-03
Special Dispatch to The Star.

LOS ANGELES. December 2-of
major importance in pending improve
ments, is the estimated $3l, ,227 OF re-
Mobilization program for schools dam
aged in the earthquake of March TO-
Not only are all damaged buildings to
be remodeled and rebuilt, but all school
equipment is to be rearranged to con-
form to the temblor -proof State code
requirements. Included In the rehabili-
tation program are 767 structures other
than frame and 1872 two-story frame
school buildings. *
Twelve school buildings have been
completely demolished to date and II
other school structures will have to be
torn down. Many of the concrete and
steel frame buildings will have. to be
reinforced. n
Evening star., 1933-12-03
BAY STATE c. W. A.
TO EMPLOY 100000
Ely Considers Removing Boston
Police Head for "Burlesque'
Liquor Raids.

BOSTON, December Civil works
projects in Massachusetts, will result in
the expenditure of 0,000,0 900 and the
creation of 10000 new jobs for the
unemployed, according to an estimate
furnished by Joseph w. Bartlett, chair
man Of the Massachusetts, Civil Works
Administration.
The Civil Works Board already has
allotted ST 900, 900 on construction prof.
ects. which have given employment to
$4,000. In attacking this problem, a
distinct effort has been made to pro-
vide several thousand of these jobs for
white collar" workers.
Evening star., 1933-12-03
new MEXICO WATCHES
EFFECT OF JINX POST
IN CAREER OF CHAVEZ
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DlSpatcn 10 Inc olar'
SANTA FE, NJ Mex, December p
Friends of Congressman Dennis Chavez
and others are speculating over his elec-
ton as Democratic national committee
man to succeed the late Gov. Arthur
Seligman. They are wondering what
effect it will have on his popularity in
the State.
Chavez led the ticket in 1882. getting
an unprecedented plurality Of more
than 10000. -l,
Evening star., 1933-12-03
CONNECTICUT SPEEDS
CIVIL WORKS TO GIVE
JOBS TO THE NEEDY
Special Dispatch to The Star.

HARTFORD. Conn, December a.
The civil works program is clicking in
Connecticut with extra efforts being
made this week to cut through red
tape and speed up the transfer Of un-
employed from the relief rolls. Last
weeks effort. according to the report
sent to Washington early this week by
Miss Eleanor H. Little, executive d.
rector Of the State Relief Administra.
ton; showed that during that period,
on the civil works program, 4.7I1 per-
sons worked 1880 hours for wages
of S58,Sl8,45, ,
Evening star., 1933-12-03
BY ROBERT H. HORNER.

Special Dispatch to The Star
~ HARLESTON, w. Va. Deem
1 Der "A strong public de-
mand for economy in govern
ment may cause the West Vir-
t,a Y glnla Legislature, which Will
convene on Wednesday after To-day
recess. TO abolish or reorganfze g va
riety Of governmental activities before
1t considers passing additional revenue
bills, for which it was called into ses-
sion
The House of Delegates already is on
record. by resolution. as favoring
complete study of the States entire
governmental and public school sys-
TENS, to ascertain where further
economies can be made, before 1t gives
consideration to any new tax bills. It's
Finance Committee, following instruc-
tions. already is at work on survey
Of the State.
One proposal which has so far re-
ceived considerable attention. is to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-07

Spain has 5,107 labor unions with 1,041 ,539 members.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-07
PAUL ENDORSED
 BY SEWERS AS FISHERY CHIEF
Ketchikan Union Adopts
 Resolution Asking O'Mal- ley's Job for Pa ul

William L. Paul, Ketchikan at- torney and Southeast Alaska h. dian leader, was endorsed last week by the Alaska Seiners Asso- ciation of Ketchikan. for position as United States Commissioner of Fisheries. A resolution declaring that he had been spokesman for the best interests of Alaska fish, ermen for several years and at tacking Henry O'Malley, present Commissioner, was adopted by a unanimous vote of the Associa- tion.
 Petitions urging Mfr. Paul's ap- pointment are being put into cir culation in this Division, and prob abably in other parts of the Ter ritory.
 The Association declared that the regulations imposed by Com missioner C'Malley had favored non-residents and had made it impossible for resident fishermen to catch enough fish lawfully to make bare hving.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-07
DE M0LAY AND
 RAINBOW RITES
 OCCUR TONIGHT
Orin Edwards to Lead Boys and Ellen Mize
 to Direct Girls

Preparations have been com pleted for joint installation this evening of officers of the Order of DeMolay Boys and of the Or der of Rainbow Girls and for the subsequent dance to be held by members of both organizations. The installation exercises will take place in the lodge room and the dance in the ball room of Scot tish Rite Temple.
 The DeMolay installation will be in charge of Orin Edwards, retir- ing Master Councillor.
 The Rainbow installation will be directed by Miss Ellen Mize, re- tiring Worthy Advisor
 Music for the dance will be fur nished by the Rythem Men led by Louis Anderson