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Evening star., 1933-09-03
ELECTION RALLIES
TEXANS OPTIMISM
Legislature to Be Convened on
September IL to Issue First
of Aid Bonds.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
AUSTIN, Tex, September 2.-TexaS
responded this week In noticeable up
swing Of confidence and optimism to the
results of last weeks election and this
weeks N. r. A. check-up canvass in
every city and town Of over $500 popu-
lation.
Voters q week ago authorized the issu-
ance of $2o,000,000 Of State bonds for
public works, rehabilitation and relief.
This bond authority assured contmu-
ance of Federal relief allotments to
Texas. It assured an early start OF the
public works projects, whose delay
already was chafng city authorities
whose plans had long since been ready.
Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson announced
she will convene the Legislature IN
special session September II to issue
the first 100000 or more Of the
authorized State bonds; TO conform
Texas laws to the national code policy
particularly in suspending the anti
trust laws during the code period, and
to consider such taxes as may be neces-
sary to pay of the bond issue. A light
sales tax on final retail sales Is re-
garded as the probable result Of this
sessions efforts toward finding . way
to pay of the bonds.
Adoption Of the beer amendment
meant putting probably $500 people TO
work IN breweries Of the State: and 1t
promised to put perhaps $500 more to
work September IS In dispensarieS and
wholesale distributing plants handling
beer.
Evening star., 1933-09-03
WORKS PLANS
AGAIN FACING REVISION
Counties Reported on ''Preferred List
Because of Apparently Excessive Allot-
ments Given Study by Engineer.

set aside for Louisville in the COM
missions projects. Field engineers Of
the bureau have already concluded
that the city has not been given ade-
quate consideration and their opinion
has been supplemented by protests that
Mayor Harrison has sent to Washing
ton. The mayor said, judging from
past experience, he wasn't surprised at
the treatment Louisville received from
the commission, but this time the city
is not defenseless and intends to tight
it out at Washington.
The bureaus objections to these ex-
hibitions OF favoritism, however, has
not held up the entire program. Mr..
Voshen was instructed to 60 ahead
with projects "unquestionably justified
under conditional approval" Each
project must stand on its own bottom
and some Of the work may get under
way in September.
On the subject Of relief funds, the
State has not taken a single step to
comply with Federal stipulations. The
Federal Relief Administrators ulti-
matum that $4,000, 600 must be raised
for that purpose before another Federal
cent is forthcoming precipitated a Bit
ter legislative fight that eliminated
Tuesday In the defeat Of Gov Laf-
foon's pet bill levying gross sales tax.
This measure has been before the Leg
islature's special session two weeks,
every day Of which costs taxpayers
$1,000. It could have been disposed Of
last week, but the Governor evidently
feared to come to grips with his law
makers and held of the issue in the
hope Of capturing votes needed to put
1t through the House. He ventured
the test Tuesday and it was defeated,
81 to 46. No one now expects it TO
see the light Of day in the Senate.
Evening star., 1933-09-03
BY ALFRED BURKHOLDER,

SIOUX FALLS, s. Dak., September
2.-The South Dakota Highway Com
mission will on September open bids
for highway improvement projects
which are expected to cost about $780,
900. The notice to contractors lists
over 40 projects and includes 10h miles
of concrete paving. 81 miles Of grading,
60 miles Of gravel base course In prepa-
ration for oil surfacing, IS miles Of
graveling, 95 miles Of gravel resurfacing,
52,970 hneal feet Of guardrail and sew
eral bridges.
The contracts to be awarded on bids
opened September will be the first
under the new Federal highway build
ing program. for which South Dakota
has been assigned $6,000,000 during the
present biennium. A few projects to
be constructed with regular Federal aid
or State funds are included.
On all Federal-financed projects the
wage scale has been boosted by the
State Highway Commission from 30 to
Evening star., 1933-09-03
BY GEORGE X. WALLACE.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, September a.
Unemployed conditions In this section
are being relieved to q material extent
with indications of further slack being
taken out OF the lines of the idle
shortly.
One Of the brightest spots ahead is
an announcement that 5000 men will
be employed in the weeks. ahead on the
Missouri between Kansas City and
Sioux City, Iowa, on the six-foot chan
mel construction project. This is made
possible by the allotment Of $14,153,-
000 recently by the Public Works Ad-
ministration. This job will call for a
big outlay Of materials which Is ex-
pected to further aid business condt-
tions in this territory.
While definite figures are not yet
available, 1t is estimated that more than
1000 have been returned to work In
Kansas City under the N. r. A. pro-
gram. The response throughout Mis-
souri, to the Administrations recovery
efforts has been most substantial In the
Evening star., 1933-09-03
BY HARRY BLOOM.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
Tvbo Xonf,rky IyicI,u,ou Fov,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
I The Kentucky Highway Commits
The Kentucky highway commits
sion, which was compelled to al
ter its set-up to conform to pre-
- scriptions written by the Federal
Bureau Of Public Roads In order
to qualify for s7,500,000 emergency pub
lie works grant, has again run afoul
Of that authority with its proposed pro-
gram Of road building
The commission learned this week
that the emergency program it sub
mitted to the bureau must undergo
considerable revision to be acceptable
The bureau was much put out at the
apparently disproportionate allotment
Of funds to the various counties and
reminded the commission that the
work must be brought in line with the
announced understanding that the
program must be based on unemploy-
ment and trafilc needs, treating the
State as an entity"
District Engineer ]. T. Voshell, OF
Cincinnati, was instructed to make q
study Of counties apparently on the
preferred list" that is, their allot-
ments are notably in excess Of their
needs from the standpoint Of traffic or
relief. Among them are Hopkins Coun-
W, tilc IlOiuc VI 1OS. SuUy AdUOOll [,
Whitley County, the home Of High
way Commissioner Ed NJ Gatlii. and
Trigg County, the home Of Commits
sioner w. c. Broadbent.
Conversely, the bureau feels that
Louisville and Jefferson County, which
contain a sixth of the States popula-
ton, but only 80 Of its relief roll,
have been sighted. OF the $l,879, 900
allotted to municipalities on extensions
of Federal aid roads, only $4,000 was
Evening star., 1933-09-03
BLUE EAGLE FIGHT
! IN CREOLE STATE
LIKE WAR TIMES
Volunteer Workers Seek
N. R. A. Support as They
Did Liberty Loan Drives.
BY GEORGE HEALY, Jr.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW ORLEANS, La, September O.
Scenes in Louisiana cities and towns
during the past week were reminiscent
Of wartime, with prominent men and
women making the fight for the Blue
Eagle as they fought for the Liberty
loan and war savings stamps Is years
ago.
In New Orleans alone more than $500
volunteers, including 5000 women, con-
Quoted campaigns to place emblems OF
the N. r. A. in every residence and buSl-
ness establishment in the city. Appro-
priately the women were led by matrons
who were active in Red Cross and Lib
erty loan work during the World War.
Only Part of Work.
The Blue Eagle drive, however, was
only part of the work being accom-
plished by prominent New Orleans men
and women during the week.
Faced with the necessity for resump-
tion of the regular work Of his division
of the Criminal District Court, Judge
Frank T. Echezabel on Tuesday ordered
the speeding of the open court tnves-
tigation into the November general elec-
ton. Men and women tellers who had
been examining 10 TO ZU ballOt DoxeS per
day began the examination of go boxes
per day, working morning and after
noon.
When the examination was little more
than past the halfway mark, discrep-
ancies Of more than 1906 votes had
been found. Fifty-one commissioners
who served in the general election are
under election fraud charges and Dis
trict Attorney Eugene Stanley Is pre-
pairing to file additional afidavits when
the investigation has progressed to COM
pletion.
Comment on Long Row.
The punching which Senator Huey P.
Long received week ago on Long
Island and his conduct at the Veterans
of Foreign Wars Convention in Milwau-
kee naturally caused much comment in
Louisiana.
The Women's Committee, an organ
fzation dedicated to the overthrow of
the Long regime in this State, sent out
scores Of kilograms condemning Sena-
tor Longs attack at the convention on
the National Recovery Administration
Evening star., 1933-09-03
Nebraska Benefits by
Industrial Recovery
Trade Boost.
ORDER FOR PIGS
AID TO FARMERS
Allotment of $14,OOO,OOO
STARTS Important Work
on Waterways.
BY GEORI r. FISHER.


Special Dispatch to INC Star.
OMAHA, September 2.-Nebyaska felt
the force of industrial recovery this
week as it set about preparing for Mis-
souri, River improvement, authorized by
the Public Works Administration. and
as its farmers continued to send in
their small pigs to q Government
market.
Both features Of the administration's
policy CHANGED to come at the same
time and to give added encouragement
to hopes aroused by the purely mer-
camille buying campaign. It was felt
that when the funds begin to flow
through the hands Of labor on the river
and into the farmers pockets through
the packing companies, that N. r. A.
will be firmly established In this ter
ritory.
Missouri River cities prepared to act
quickly in cooperation with Army En-
gineers, when announcement of the
came. Orders re-employing all men
recently laid of at the river locations
are expected soon from Capt. Theodore
Wyman, district engineer of Kansas
City. Capt. Wyman said that he ex-
poets to be able to provide work for
5000 men before the river season closes
by December Is. Next season the num-
Der will be swelled to 5000 in placing
pile dixie revetment construction by
which the swirling waters Of the allu-
vial Missouri River are harnessed to
deposit silt and make new banks.
The purpose now is to create a 6-foot
channel north from Kansas City. II
the Fort Peck, Mont, reservoir project
is approved, it will store sufficient water
to raise the river level in periods Of
drought to the 9foot stage. This action
Is taken as q good omen for approval
Of that project.
The work, it is anticipated, viii be
divided into 80 projects. Locations
where river improvement will start are
at Leavenworth, Atchison and White
Cloud. Kans.; st. Joseph, Nodaway,
Corning and Tarkio, Mo; Rulo, Brown
vile, Plattsmouth. Nebraska City.
Omaha and Dakota City, Nebr., and
Council Bluffs and Sioux City. Iowa.
To finish the work laid out and for
which surveys and plans are already
made will take from to Is months,
engineers estimate.
The changing course Of the river as
1t now runs soon would have endan-
gered the Council Bluffs, Iowa, water
supply and its largest park site on the
river. officials Of that city say.
Missouri River improvement advo-
Gates at once sent a message thanking
President Roosevelt for constructive
and humanitarian statesmanship." The
President himself personally had ap-
proved the allotment. A similar mes
sage went to the President from Fred
Eissler Of Lincoln. president Of the Ne
braska Federation Of Labor.
On the same day that news Of the
river improvement allotment came,
Omaha and Council Bluffs trustees Of
proposed mile-long steel highway
bridge between the two cities, acting
under Federal authority, awarded a
conditional contract for q $2,286,000
span over the Missouri River to the
Continued on Third Page.)
Evening star., 1933-09-03
MISSOURI CHANNEL PROJECT
WILL GIVE 5000 EMPLOYMENT
Outlay In Materials on Construction Ex-
pected to Aid Business Materially
Throug hout State.

bigger centers with some confusion in
the smaller towns as to its operation.
Big demonstrations have marked the
N. r. A. campaign, particularly in st.
Louis and Kansas City. More than
10000 persons participated in the st.
Louis parade few days ago, while al
most 100000 others looked on. The
State in general pledged its allegiance
to the Blue Eagle with gathering Of
on1cials and representatives from all
sections of Missouri at Jefferson City,
the State capital.
Missouri's all-wet delegate conven-
ton, in conformity with the States
3-to-1 vote for repeal. this week formal
ly cast the States ballot favoring re-
moval Of the eighteenth amendment
from the Federal Constitution. With
an extra session Of Missouri's Legisla-
ture q virtual certainty In October or
November, Gov. Park has named COM
mission of IL to study the problem Of
regulation, dispensing and control of
hard liquor and make recommendations
for enactments on that subject.
Evening star., 1933-09-03
Delaware
Continued From First Paae)

machine shops, plumbing and steel
products, 1863; diaries, 10; chemical in
dustries, BIG; textiles, rubber hose,
rayon and floor coverings, 214; baker
les, 16; meat provision companies and
wholesale groceries, ~; petroleum In
dustries, 81.
The figures show that the trend to-
ward increase in the number of jobs
Is general and not confined to one or
two industries. They also show, Mr.
Gassaway emphasized, that Wilmington
manufacturers and industrialists can
justly be credited with exemplary CO.
operation In the national recovery ef-
fort.
The average number of increases in
Jobs for the unreported industries Is
expected to be generally the same as
that for the 211 already reported, al
though there can be no official state
ment on this until reports are in hand.
Storm Effects Feared.
With damages to farm products In
the recent storm already apparent ex-
pected to total several hundred thou
sand dollars, State officials are fear
ful the after effects" Of the hurricane
like gale will be even worse.
Evening star., 1933-09-03
S. DAKOTA ROAD COMMISSION
ASKS BIDS FOR HIGHWAY WORK
Improvement Contracts to Be Offered
September 6 for Projects Expected
to Cost $85O,OOO.

As cents an hour for unskilled labo..
and from 40 to SIS cents an hour for
skilled labor. On these projects work
ers are limited to 80 hours q week or
130 hours a month. In the case of
State projects, where there Is no limit
on working hours, the wage scale has
been left at q minimum Of 30 cents an
hour.
The various projects are scattered in
all parts Of the State and will give en-
ployment to large numbers Of local
workers who have been out of employ
ment.
At recent meeting of the State Ad-
visory Board of the Federal Govern
ment's Public Works Administration
unemployment projects which will cost
nearly sl,300, 900 received approval. One
Of the largest Of these projects to be ap-
proved was for the City Of Watertown.
where $500,00 will be expended for
street, water and sewer improvements
and the erection of an auditorium cost
ing $1,000
Evening star., 1933-09-03
IOWA TURNS TO TAX
REVISION PROGRAM
Brookings Institute Plan Calls
ror Personal and BUSINESS
Levies.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DES MONIES, Iowa, September a.
Iowa business men and politicians
turned their eyes last week to the
Brookings Institute tax revision plan for
Iowa, which was made public Tuesday.
The scheme calls for personal net in
come taxes and business taxes on base
consisting mostly of the general prop
erty tax. Other sections Of the tnsti-
tute report were not made public, but
the tax revision section was given out
to make possible early public study, said
w. F. Riley, chairman Of the Interim
legislative Committee on Iowa Govern
mental Reorganization.
The proposed governmental reorgani-
zation Of Iowa has been one Of the main
projects outlined by the Democratic ad-
ministration Of Gov. Clyde Herring, the
first Democratic Governor Of Iowa since
1892.
Approximately $4,000 Des Moines
persons paraded Monday in the longest
demonstration since war times when
the city formally began its N. r. A.
crusade.
Practically all business houses closed
In midafternoon to participate In the
parade and an estimated crowd Of
$4,000 watched.
A house-to-house canvass Is now un-
der way In Des Moines, designed to OBJ
tain consumer support for the Buy
Now campaign.
Evening star., 1933-09-03
n. r. A. In THE CAROLINAS
Business Picks Up in
Palmetto State Despite
Expected Slump.
BY FTTZ HUGH McMASTER.

BY FlTZ HUGH McMASTEK
Special Dispatch to The Star
COLUMBIA, S. c., September g.
South Carolina has fallen beautifully
into line behind President Roosevelt
There has been not only the desire to
back up the President of the country.
but a conviction that his program was
the only way out, and while there has
been considerable uncertainty as to
ability to put the program over. over
whelmingly there has been q determi-
nation to see the program through and
hope for best results.
There are many indications that
there has been an upward turn. A
manager of one of the companies doing
a large industrial life insurance busi-
ness, whose agents go into the homes
of the weekly-wage class all over the
State, says there has been q marked
change. For the first time in five
years there has been an increase IN
industrial life insurance during the
month Of August.
Business Improves.
A seasonal decline was expected in
August, but this year there has been
an increase In business. This Is espe-
cially marked In the upper part Of the
State, where the cotton mills are To-
Gated, and even in the lower part Of
the State, while there has been no in
crease in business, there has been an
improvement in collections. This particu-
lar company does q large rural indus
trial life insurance business. This Is
almost entirely among the colored pop
ulation.
This has shown an Improvement
along with the white business. Espe-
cially IS this true In the tobacco sec
ton Of the State, the eastern part.
Good tobacco crops have been made
and the prices have been good.
There has been some cutting down
Of help In the case Of businesses which.
complying with the letter Of the law,
claim to find It necessary to lay Oh
the most poorly paid. This has af-
fected the colored help to some extent,
and a colored minister, In q public ap-
peal, has called upon the white people
to do what they could for the colored
help which has been laid OF. The lay
ing OF has not been true to any great
extent.
Fewer Hoboes On Road.
Another indication which Is from
the country as q whole Is the great
decrease In the number Of hoboes on
the through freight trains. At one
railroad junction, through which the
Southern Railway and the Seaboard
Air Line send a number Of freight
trains daily, by count the number Of
hoboes has fallen OF by two-thirds. .
At the employment ofdce Of one Of
the largest group of cotton mills In
this section the statement is made that
applications for work has decreased
materially. So on the whole labor con-
ditions show decided improvement In
South Carolina.
Evening star., 1933-09-03
FLORIDA HARVESTS
FIRST GRAPEFRUIT
Two Car Loads Picked in Fort
Myers Section Show Ex-
ceIIent Quality.
BY GEORGE HOYT SMITH.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Septembe

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, September 2.
The first grapefruit Of the l933-34
season have been picked in the Fort
Myers area. The fruit Is from January
bloom. It Is Of excellent quality and
should bring a fancy price. The pack
ing plant is all ready to start, but little
activity is expected before the middle Ct
September The first picking consisted
Of two car loads.
The Seminole Oyster Farms, Daytona
Beach. is making extensive improve
ments to its packing plant at Port
Orange and planting new seed beds at a
cost of over $4,000. At least 10000
barrels OF seed oysters are to be planted
by the company on a 700-acre leased
claim on the Halifax River. The plant
ing IS going forward at the rate Of $50
barrels day.
j. E. Pruitt, who runs q shark fishery
In Martin County, says the tarpon Of
the species is more dangerous than the
shark. Sharks" says Mr.. Pruitt, ARE
tame stuff compared with the silver
king" Every morning the shark fisher
men raise their nets full Of sea tigers.
Evening star., 1933-09-03
Tarheel State Growers
Resent L0,u Prices Paid
For Tobacco.
BY ROBERT E. WILLIAMS.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RALEIGH, N. c., September with
Gov. j. C. B. Ehringhaus responding
Immediately to resolution adopted by
a mass meeting of over 1000 farmers,
all tobacco warehouses in North Caro-
lima will be closed beginning Monday
morning until the Federal Government
acts upon pleas for relief for this years
crop.
The farmers, showing deep resent
ment over opening prices. met on
Thursday and Gov. Ehringhaus issued
his proclamation Thursday night. Ware
house men pledged cooperation to the
Governor and he in turn modified his
order so as to permit operations yes
terday with q view to disposing Of all
tobacco already on the warehouse floors
and In danger Of deteriorating.
While the Governors proclamation,
in which he secured the cooperation OF
Gov. Irba c. Blackwood Of South Caro-
lima, was based upon a request for
voluntary action, public opinion IS such
that It Is highly improbable that any
warehouse men would risk opposition
to the Governors plan, even If so dis
In the meantime the Governor will
head a delegation Of farmers to Wash
ington on Monday.
when the markets opened this week
prices were slightly above the opening
figures Of last year, when the average
at the opening was around 9 cents
q pound, with the average Tor the sea-
son reaching IL cents.
But farmers this year are not judg-
ing prices on the basis Of the past year,
~. Ia tA0 n aYn0HfaS1nnR
further rise In commodity prices dur
ing the coming year. Six months ago
an average price Of IS cents for this
years tobacco crop would have seemed
quite attractive, but the rise in prices
Of things the farmer must buy have re-
moved the attraction.
Want Around 20 Cents.
Farmers now want around 20 cents
q pound and are nearer in mood to
demand what they want than ever be-
fore. Mass meetings have become the
order of the day and appeals are being
made to Secretary Of Agriculture Wal
lace to do something more than urge
the buying companies to pay higher
prices this year.
The 10-year period from 1919 to 1929,
which the agricultural adjustment act
applies to tobacco, saw an average price
Of "a cents q pound. The latest sta
tistics on commodity prices show "a
cents as having a present value Of 16
cents for the commodities which the
farmer must purchase and costs are
still rising.
Tobacco Is far the most important
agricultural product In North Carolina,
which produces about three-fourths Of
all the fiue.cured tobacco grown and
tobacco prices will have Q most i'm
portant bearing On the economic con-
dition Of the State for ths next IL
months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-16


 en by the Ladies of the Trinity Guild, and the Juneau Women's Club withdrew.
 An announcement will be made later concerning the time and place for the Mother-Daughter luncheon as the club does not plan to abandon the plan, but will sell ect date when no other event is already scheduled.
 Business Meeting Tomorrow
 Tomorrow afternoon the regu- lar monthly business meeting will be held in the Council Chambers of the City Hall at o'clock as announced elsewhere in The En- pire. Considerable business, most of it of considerable importance, is scheduled to be taken up at this meeting and club officials urge all members to attend. This meeting is for members only, al- though members of other Federal ed Clubs will be welcomed.