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Evening star., 1933-05-01
STOCKS PUSHED UP
81 TO $3PER SHARE
Advance in Commodities Also
Continues in Rush
of Buying.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 1.-Speculative
markets opened with a new stampede Of
buying today and the dollar dropped to
new low levels in relation to European
gold currencies.
The stock market surged up 81 to 50
a share in the first half hour, as lead
ing issues were traded In blocks of 900
to 10000 shares, and the ticker fell
nearly a quarter Of an hour in arrears.
The upsurge attracted profit-taking,
however. and several issues soon slid of
from the best.
Commodities Gain.
The French franc rose to 4.66 cents
In the early foreign exchange dealings,
in contrast to gold parity Of approx
mately 1892 cents, indicating a theoreti-
cal depreciation in the dollar Of little
more than Is per cent. and several
other leading foreign currencies were
correspondingly buoyant In terms Of
dollars.
Buying swept through the commodity
markets as well, with cotton futures ris-
ing about 50 a bale to the best levels
since last September, wheat at Chicago
opening up cent and more a bushel
and such staples as rubber, hides, sugar
and others making substantial gains.
BY the end Of the first half hour the
stock tape was running 10 minutes be-
hind the market and large blocks con-
tinued to figure in the huge turnover.
One Of these transactions was 10000
shares Of General Motors common at
$22, up 81, and an advance Of Is cents
from the opening price.
Silver futures jumped one-haH to
nearly l cent an ounce, while initial
rubber quotations represented gains of
one-tenth to about one-quarter Of a
cent per pound. Sugar was also higher.
Decline in Dollar.
The advance in stocks and commodi-
ties was again accompanied by a de-
cline in dollar exchange. Sterling
opened here at 1892, up 5as cents, and
later went higher. French francs ad-
vanced nearly one-tenth Of q cent to
AZ cents, while Swiss francs jumped
more than half q cent to 2268 cents
and Dutch gilders climbed nearly x
cent to 47.4 cents.
Transactions on the Stock Exchange
in the first half hour totaled l, 400, 900
shares, the heaviest volume for that Pc
riod since May S, 1880.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
MAN CLAIMING THREATS
JAILED AT OWN REQUEST
Witness in Maryland Murder Case
Accuses Relatives of Suspect
of Intimidation.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Nd, May l.
Claiming he had been threatened by
relatives Of Ben Jackson, who Is under
indictment for murder, Wade Smith
of Croome has been placed in jail here
at his own request, it was learned to-
day.
Smith told Prince Georges county
authorities he was on his way to tes-
tify before the grand jury in the Jack
son case when the threats were made.
At that time he was carrying q pistol.
which he claimed was used in the kill
ing, and this was taken from him by a
group Of men, who he said are rela-
tives and friends Of jackson, according
to police.
Smith testified before the grand
jury and then asked to be placed in
jail. Jackson has been indicted for
the murder Of John Cotton Of Marl-
boro, at q dance near that town on
January %. No date has been fixed
for the trial, and jackson Is now con-
fined In the same jail as Smith.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
CHICAGO VETERANS
REPORTED ON WAY
Police Advised That 500 Men
Are Coming Here to De-
mand Bonus.

washington police were notified today
Of the movement from Chicago of Q
group Of about 500 members Of the
Chicago Workers Ex-Service Mems
League, Communist veterans organ
ization, heading for Washington to de-
mand q bonus.
The communication, received by Lieut..
Horace Lineburg of the crime preven-
ton division Of the police, stated the
group Is on its way to the Capital to
demand food and shelter from the Gov
ernment while it presses its demands
for full payment of the bonus.
The report from Chicago, Lieu" Line.
burg said. did not state how tn '.-'21:p
was travelling, nor what time it would
arrive in the Capital.
Claims Termed False.
Claims Of so-called leaders Of the
B. E. F., who have been telling omcials
Of proposed bonus marches on Wash
sonal publicity by william Conley OF
Los Angeles, national commander Of
the Disabled American Veterans, In q
radio talk over Nationwide network
Of the N. B. c. last night.
Conley said II think Washington Is
unduly alarmed by claims and counter
claims Of alleged leaders Of the so-called
B. E. F. that they can send $4,000
veterans to this city on bonus march:
Leaders Of what? Get any or all OF
them to give you names and addresses
Of the camps and posts throughout the
country; try to locate these groups and
the myth will be exploded.
Charges Communism.
I'm my travels I am pretty close to
the veterans, but oficials here are being
entirely misled by self-styled spokes-
men. There is not one Of these takers
who can successfully order $4,000 men
to come to Washington or stay away
from here, and the whole publicity
scheme will be exposed when omctA1
refuse to waste time with those who
are using veterans as sounding boards
for personal publicity"
He branded present efforts to get vet
Grams to come to washington as bred
by the Communist party.
At the close Of the talk he said:
II plead with all veterans, disabled
or otherwise, to have no part In the
Communistic drive, but present their
proposals through orderly channels
rather than be caught ON the Shiny
trails that lead to Moscow. I am In
no way alone in this appeal. Not only
the Disabled American Veterans, but
the Veterans OF Foreign Wars and the
American Legion have pointed out the
folly Of these bonus marches, and even
the leaders of the crowds that as-
sembled in Washington about . year
ago have publicly declared that no
such marches can avail anything at
this time"
Evening star., 1933-05-01
FRENCH WIN POINT
IN ARMS DECISION
Geneva Committee Would
Count 40, 900 German Po-
lice as Soldiers.
Nv III. Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 1.-Some
10000 German state police will be
counted as an integral part Of the new
German army If the disarmament con-
ference ratifies a decision taken today
by the Committee on Army Electives.
Germany abstained from voting, thus
leaving the battle to the conference II
it is impossible to reach an agreement
in private negotiations. The American
delegate voted against inclusion Of the
police.
The police to be counted, under the
committees decision, include cadets
and policemen living In barracks who
have modern arms and armored cars.
Germany says she needs this set-up
because of internal political conditions.
Wilson Confers With Nadolny.
Hugh R. Wilson. for the United
States. and Capt. Anthony Eden. Tor
Great Britain, conferred with Count
Rudolf Nadolny of Germany, and Rene
Massigli Of France, in an endeavor TO
smooth over the grave questions IN
dispute.
Germany's refusal to abolish the
Reichswehr and accept q short-term
conscription army runs counter to one
of the cardinal points Of the French
disarmament police policy.
Delegates are unanimous ABOUT tns
desirability Of reaching agreement ~
main issues before the world econonuc
conference convenes in June.
American Would Count 20 ,0o0.
While COL George v. Strong o1 the
United States voted against counting as
soldiers the main body of state police
in Germany, he advocated counting
about 1000 on the ground that they
could be regarded as military organ1-
cation.
Determination Of the status Of Ger
Ian state police by the disarmament
conference is important IN connection
with the British arms plan recently
presented by Prime Minister Ramsay
Macdonald.
The British plan allocates home
armies Of 100000 men each to France
and Germany. Germany has been do
ing her utmost to prevent any decision
which would put her police in the cate.
CORY of soldiers, and thus use up part
of this quota. The present German
army is limited to 100000 men by the
treaty of Versailles.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
MONTANAN MENTIONED
FOR CIVIL SERVICE POST
Harry Mitchell, Prominent in
Newspaper and Political Circles,
Believed Considered.

Harry Mitchell Of Great Falls, Mont,
Is understood to be under consideration
for appointment as chairman of the
United States Civil Service Commission.
Mitchell, who has been prominent in
newspaper and political circles in Mon
tana, was three times mayor of Great
Falls and has the backing Of Senator
Wheeler Of that State.
In the same well informed circles, the
name of Mrs. Benton Mcmillan, widow
Of former Gov. Mcmillan Of Tennessee,
Is being mentioned in connection with
appointment to the Civil Service Com
mission to succeed Miss Jessie Dell. Mrs.
Mcmillan, formerly Democatic national
committeewoman from Tennessee, was
active in the presidential campaign Of
Mr.. Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
BANK TALK LIKENED
TO GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 1.-Postmaster
General Farley last night likened
President Roosevelt's recent banking
statement to Washingtons farewell
address. Lincoln's Gettysburg address
and Wilson's prenouncements
In Presidents day" talk at the
Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church,
the man who helped to start Frankl1c
D. Roosevelt on the road to the White
House declared:
Just as Washington's farewell ad-
dress has become one Of our national
traditions; just as Lincoh's Gettysburg
address has become one of our national
gems Of oratory; just as the phrases
of Wilson have become bywords for ork
guidance, I predict that future genera
tions will look back upon this Roosevelt
banking statement as q declaration
which marked the turning point tn -
depression.
I'VE have begun to emerge from the
valley and ascend toward the crest,
where this time we may hope to find .
reasonable prosperity that Will endure,
because 1t will be built upon fmda-
mental ideas which will consider the
rights Of every class Of our citizens"
Evening star., 1933-05-01
BOND PAYMENTS WATCHED.
Financiers Making Varied Arrange
ments Under Gold Embargo.

NEW YORK, May / (P).-With gold
payments prohibited under presidential
edict, wide attention was focused today
on the first announcement of how pay
meflts will be made to holders OF gold
bonds.
The gold clause" an important part
Of the indenture of most foreign and
domestic bonds, states that interest and
principal are payable In gold OF stand
ard weight and value.
Kuhn, Loeb g. Co., on behalf OF the
French cities of Bordeaux, Lyons and
MarseilIe. announced that In view OF
the impossibility Of obtaining gold coin
for payment here of the semi annual
interest due today on the municipal
exterior loans of 1919, 15-year per
cent gold bonds, due November l, 1884,
holders are offered the option OF the
following three forms Of payment:
l. Payment will be made here In
United States currency upon presenta-
ton of the May coupons at the ONCE
OF the bankers, who are American pay
ing agents.
3. Payment will be made in United
states currency in New York at the
dollar equivalent of French francs at
gold parity of exchange, 1852 francs
Tor each dollar of coupons, the dollar
equivalent to be computed by the pay
ing agents on the basis of their aver
age buying rate in New York cor ex-
change on Paris on the day slch cou-
pons are presented.
8. Payments will be made In francs
in Paris at the good parity OF exchange,
1852 francs a dollar, upon presentatlon
of the coupons at the office OF Banque
de Paris ct des Pays-BaS.
The obligorS reserve the right 10 re-
woke their offer at any time without
notice, it was announced.
The New York Clearing House AS
sociation informed member banks that
Counsel for the association had sug-
gested. with reference to the collection
and payment of bonds and coupons
that current funds be used as usual
where no special instructions are re-
ceived; that q messenger making q de-
mand for payment in gold sign state
ment to the effect that payment In
gold was refused, and that refusal
Should be based upon the fact that
pisting Government regulations, do moi
peynit payment in the metal.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
FRANCE WEIGHS GOLD ISSUE.
Ability to Remain ON Standard Is
Discussed by Officials.

PARIS, May @-Premier Edouard
Herriot, speeding home from the Wash
ington discussions, will find himself on
arrival in the midst of discussion of
Frances ability to remain on the gold
standard
1t is problem which becomes daily
more pressing, and it will form one of
the points to be taken up at an ex-
traordinary session of the cabinet i'm
mediately after Herriot lands.
Government spokesmen declare the
franc will weather the storm, but some
parliamentary experts frequently have
expressed doubt that France will stay
on the gold standard long, with the
United States of the standard.
The opposition has construed the
borrowing of ESQ 1000 900 by the French
treasury from English banks as a sign
of financial weakness.
Paul Reynaud, former Premier Tar
deus minister of finance, says in
Liberte:
Restore finances or put an embargo
on gold"
"a dispatch from the lie de France.
on which Herriot is returning, dis
closed that the French government had
sent him a message approving his ne
gotiat1ons on the tariff truce question.
The radiogram said that immediate
steps would be taken at London to
delineate the truces provisions. The
idea of an economic truce, pending the
outcome of the World Economic Con-
ference, was suggested Saturday to the
Conference Preparatory Committee at
London by Norman H. Davis, Presi-
dent Roosevelt's Ambassador at Isarss.,
The right to impose a tariff surtSx =
the dollar becomes too low has been
reserved by the French government In
aonefng 10 tne taIln truce proposed
stood today.
The surtax, which is Is per cent for
the British pound and the japanese
yen, IS not expected to be invoked be-
fore the return from the United States
Of Herriot.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
SEVEN DIE IN TORNADO,
1000 MADE HOMELESS
Storm Sweeps From Arkansas Area
Across Mississippi River to
Edge Of Yazoo City, Miss.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
YAZOO CITY, Miss, May 1.-Seven
known dead, scores Of injured and the
ruins of hundreds Of homes today
marked the path of q week end tor
nado which blew up around Lake VII
lage, In Southeast Arkansas, and
leaped the Mississippi River to strike
at Yazoo City and Greenville, In West
Mississippi.
The storm struck first southwest Of
Lake Village, late Saturday night. D. D.
Boyd, So, was killed as the blast car
ried his home nearly 200 feet and fiat
tened it. Two colored men were killed
In the same vicinity.
Jumping the big river, the storm
struck again near Jamestown and then
moved on to the edge Of Yazoo City
Three colored persons were killed here.
approximately 200 houses were reported
demolished.
Near Greenville colored woman was
killed. National Guardsmen hurried
into the stricken areas to patrol against
looting. A relief camp here gave aid
to approximately 1000 made homeless.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
|3D-H0UR WEEK HIT
BY SUGAR REFMERS
Crisp Declares Plan Would
"Scrap" Industry in U. S.
Before House Group.
BY the Associated Press.

Opposition OF American sugar re-
finers to the 30-hour -work-week bill on
the ground it will scrap" American
industry and prove unconstitutional
was put before the House Labor Com
mittee today by Charles r. Crisp, a for
mer member of Congress from Georgia.
Crisp told the committee:
This legislation If enacted into law
will prove harmful to labor, will retard
TALLY increase the total purchasing
power Of employees. We believe It un-
constitutional. It sails the Ship of State
on uncharted seas full of rocks of legal
and economic difficulties which may
endanger our whole economic structure. "
Cites 1907 Opinion.
Referring to Secretary Perkins plan
of including in the bill a minimum wage
provision, Crisp recalled that In 1867
the House judiciary Committee held
that to enact legislation to restrict fe-
male and child labor would be a re-
Election on Congress"
The minimum wage, Crisp said fur
ther, would destroy the right Of CO.
operative bargaining"
OF the Perkins proposal to give the
Federal Government power to restrict
production, Crisp said.
I'VE believe this provision will destroy
initiative, restrict the development of
industry and prevent capital from en-
gaging in industry"
If q 30-hour work week law is ap-
piled to American products, the same
restrictions also should be enforced as
to imports, Crisp said.
Sees Danger to Industry.
IF American industry Is not given
such protection the influx of goods
from abroad will literally destroy Amer
ican industry and millions Of our
citizens now employed will find them
selves unemployed. The sugar refineries
and Cuba become the refinery of the
United States'
This BILL" Crisp told the committee
''seeks to do the very thing which the
Constitution outlaws-to interfere with
the free and untrammeled exchange OF
commerce between the States"
AL the 30-hour week bills before the
committee, including those passed by
the Senate and proposed by Secretary
Perkins, would enforce the shorter work
week through ban on interstate ship
ments of goods produced by workers
on a logger than six-hour day, five-day-
week schedule.
Chairman Connery then said:
II feel that If this bill did not in
clude imports, 1t would be almost q
crime to pass it. But the Secretary of
Labor has been authorized by the Presi-
dent to tell this committee that he, the
President, is against the inclusion of
imports"
Coal OfRcial Opposes Bill.
Brice Disque, president of the Anthra-
cite Institute, followed Crisp on the
stand. asserting complete opposition to
the bill.
IT have read it hopefully to find a
justification for this kind Of N ad-
venture, but there is none," Disque said
'The bill is too arbitrary and inflen-
BILE to be workable To be workable 1t
must be so flexible that it would re-
quire an army to enforce 1t, and that
means there would be industrial boot
Logging.
TT cannot be made sufficiently f1exi-
BILE to satisfy all industry"
Evening star., 1933-05-01
% FARMERS ARRESTED
Suspects Held for Trouble At Sale and
Attack on Judge.

PRIMGHAR, Iowa, May l R.-
Twenty-three men were arrested by a
National Guard detachment today In
connection with the attempted hating
of a foreclosure sale here Thursday
and with a subsequent attack upon
Judge c. c. Bradley at LIE Mars.
Among those arrested were Simon T.
Jossem, county chairman of the Farm
ers' Holiday Association, and William
Claussen, county secretary.
The men were brought to the OBrien
County Jail and the troops planned to
remove them to LIE Mars for military
trial.
Last Thursday the farmers stormed
the court house while Sheriff E. Lem
kuil was holding a foreclosure sale
While % deputy sheriffs beat back the
mob with clubs, the sale was held on
the third floor Of the court house.
Later some members of the group
went to lie Mars, where Judge Bradley
was dragged from his bench, taken to
lonely cross roads and threatened
with hanging unless he upheld the
constitutionality Of Iowa's new mort
gage foreclosure moratorium laws
Bradley refused and was released after
he had been choked and beaten and
smeared with grease and mud.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
DAVIS PUSHES PLAN
FOR TARIFF TRUCE;
FRENCH BACK IDEA
Continued From First Page.)

have met in vain," said q Telegraph
editorial. "A strong American delega-
ton, already foreshadowed, will give
real authority to the decisions Of the
conference"
While welcoming the proposal for .
tariff truce and interpreting it as ~
clear indication of Mr.. Roosevelt'S
eagerneSs to give lead to the nations"
the Telegraph declared that for the
time being 1t is impracticable.
In the opinion Of this newspaper
Britain could not pledge herself to the
truce at time when several important
trade treaties are being negotiated, for
if she did she would lose a chance for
favorable bargains with some old Gus
toners,
Evening star., 1933-05-01

in the period before the World Eco
nomic Conference, June IL, IN London
The question has not been settled
because representatives who met at
London Saturday as the Organizing
Committee for the conference lacked
authority to commit their governments
As yet, he said, no Official word had
been heard from Paris or London as
to the attitude Of those governments,
although press dispatches reported
France as agreeable, provided imposi-
ton of q surtax on imports was al
lowed In case the dollar should fall.
The Organizing Committee has agreed
to send out with the formal invitations
to the conference. another American
proposal which contemplates q tariff
truce during the conference itself.
The object Is to prevent new obsta-
cles to trade which might hamper the
conference In clearing away these OBJ
structions and reviving commerce.
TE RRET0N REACHES II. s.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
Hi.jackers Buying
Beer Barrels to
Cut Brewers Out

PHILADELPHIA, May LAW
full sale Of beer has hit another
snag. Brewers charge a S. de-
posit on barrels, but "hi-jackers"
pay retailers as high as 81 for
the privilege OF carting them
away.
Brewery oficials, revealing their
difficulties in keeping their own
barrels-the cooperage trade Is
months behind the demand for
new containers-said today they
have no recourse against the re-
tailers.
I'VE cannot charge the retail
ers more than a IS deposit" said
one brewer. "It Is all the trade
will bear. It pays these wildcat
brewers well to pick up seasoned
barrels at prices up to ST."
The barrels cost lawful brew
ers from $3.50 to s1l each.
Evening star., 1933-05-01
RESENTS PROPOSAL
FOR SHOALS PROBE
Brown Asks Senate to Make
Own Inquiry After Norris
Urges Investigation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fIeSS.
Irked by the Norris proposal for a
presidential investigation 4 determine
whether the Government hA suffered
at the hands of private interests in
management of Muscle Shoals, Maj
Gen. Lytle Brown, Army Engineer chief
today pet1tioned the Senate to conduct
its own investigation and to start i'm
mediately
The letter, addressed to Vice Presi-
dent Garner, was read to the Senate
shortly before it was to take up the
Norris bill to cary out the administra-
tion's Tennessee River and Muscle
Shoals development project.
Brown said the proposed investiga-
ton amendment cast suspicion" over
himself and other Government officials
responsible for the Governments pow
er and nitrate plants at the shoals and
asked to be heard.
Norris, Republican, Nebraska, had
the letter referred to the President and
told the Senate Brown has not been
accused of anything, nor any other
worthy citizens"
Not Particular on Agency.
The Nebraskan said it made no Diff
ference who made the inquiry. II his
amendment is not adopted. he added
he would ask that the letter not be re-
ferred to the President.
The proposed amendment authorizes
the President to select attorneys to in
veStigate whether. in the control and
management Of Wilson Dam or any
other property at the shoals, any unfair
! or undue advantage has been given by
the Government to private interests.
"Since I am individually responsible
for all acts done on the Tennessee River
improvement by Federal authority dur
Brown wrote, II am well aware of what
has been done there.
Being conscious of no wrongdoing at
all, and confident that I have person
ally and otherwise protected all the in
terests Of the United States at Muscle
Shoals and on the Tennessee at all
times, I believe that this amendment
does great injustice to deserving and
honorable public servants by bringing
them into public suspicion and leaving
them there at critical time when their
services are needed.
II am unwilling to wait for the in
vestigation that this amendment pro-
poses: it may never happen and will
not remedy the harm done.
cable Lawyers in Senate"
The Senate has able lawyers fully
capable Of handling this matter and OF
saving the Government the hire OF
lawyers and assistant lawyers.
1T seems strange that at this late
day those who have built this Wilson
Dam, who have guarded it through IL
years of controversy, who have pre-.
served 1t in fine condition, free from
any incumbrance whatsoever, and who
have furnished every scintiIla of data
on which this much advertised Tennes-
see development is based, should now
even though inadvertently, be brought
under the suspicion Of wrong doing.
1.-The time to investigate is now. Il
mud there be to dry out, let 1t be dried
while the fire Is hot and I am here tc
assist. All Of the facts of the case
should see the light Of day and before
any further steps are taken in this
matter"