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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
BUSINESS IS IMPROVING.
CALIFORNIANS REPORT
81 900 Idle Men Put Back to Work Under
Welfare Program in Vicinity ID
of Los Angeles.

showing q steady monthly uptrend, &C
cording to statistics from the Security
Title Insurance & Guarantee Co. June
filings OF realty instruments exceeded
any other month this year.
Throughout 10 counties of the State,
which the statistics cover, 81 900 instru-
ments were recorded last month, aggre-
eating 289, 1928 for the half year. Los
Angeles County, representing more than
the other 10 counties combined, saw
27,589 filings in June, increase Of $50
over May, and making 150,943 for the
six months San Diego County was sec
ond and San Bernardino third. San
Bernardino County was first in point OF
increase over May.
Marking the first major commercial
downtown building development since
the depression days, Bullock's Depart
ment Store has announced q $400, 900
eight-story addition to their store at
Seventh and Broadway, Los Angeles. 1t
will replace the old Continental Hotel,
famous lodging place Of show people In
years past, now being demolished. Work
on the new structure will start in Sep
TENDER.
Inspired by soaring prices on agricul-
tural products, new activity Is springing
I'D in various districts Of Central Cali
fornia. At Lindsay, work has started
on a new 100000 packing plant and
ONCE building for the Lindsay Farm
Bureau Packing Co.. and work began
this week ON construction Of $4,000 new
packing crates. At Sultana, the historic
Alta Winery and an 80-acre vineyard.
were purchased by Charles Dubbs and
Samuel Captain Of San Francisco, who
will recondition it for the Fall grape
harvest. At Porterville, 600 men and
women were put to work in apricot can
neries and 100 more In packing plants
at Tulare.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
BEER AND TAX MEASURES
ENGAGE SPECIAL SESSION
Both Hold Attention in South
Dakota on Eve of Legislative
Meeting July 81.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SIOUX FALLS, S. OAK, July 23-
Attention of South Dakota citizens now
centers largely upon special session
Of the State Legislature, which Gov.
Berry has called to convene on Mon
day, July 81. The chief purpose Of the
session is to enact legislation legaliz-
ing the sale of 80 beer in South Da-
kota, but other important matters are
certain to be taken up.
Prohibitionists Of South Dakota are
watching the beer movement closely.
continuing to maintain that an act OF
the Legislature authorizing the sale of
80 beer would be q violation of the
bone-dry amendment to the State Con-
stitution. Demands for q beer session
Of the Legislature were quickly met by
protests from the drys.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
OKLAHOMA FACES FINANCE CHAOS
AND SESSION OF LEGISLATURE
People Bound to Vote for Cut in Property Taxes;
Reservoir System for Area
Being Pushed.

another special session of the General
Assembly, on which the people are al
ready fed up.
Furthermore, a special session In the
Fall forecasts Gov. Alfalfa Bill Muir
rays last desperate effort to inflict an
outrageous corporation and individual
income tax, the highest proposed In
the United States, upon q community
that thinks it Is just beginning to see
daylight.
Advocates Reservoir System.
At a meeting Of executives in the
drought-stricken Panhandle Of Okla
homa this week four neighboring States
agreed to join in the recommendation
to Washington that recovery work be
directed In this area to the building Of
the Arkansas River watershed reservoir
system, which is supposed to back flood
waters up to save New Orleans and the
Delta country and build water resources
that win make arid plains blossom.
Beer already has passed out of the
flush production stage. The traffic is
casual, orderly and disappointing to
many small vendors who jumped IN
with the expectation of getting rich.
Don't put Oklahoma In the wet column
too soon. Evidence is increasing that
the vote to repeal the eighteenth
amendment win be close. Our vote
probably VIII amount to nothing. Suce
Il Is anticipated IN December after The
two-thirds majority probably wfll haSs
kSeAA egStAvSD -.-.-. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
MONTANA LAND BOARD APPROVES
l. FORT PECK DAM PROJECT TESTS
Army Already Has Begun Core Drilling and Pit
Work-$l ,245,OOO Excess of Appropria-
tons Over State Income Reported.

the Governor by the Montana Ship-by-
Rail Association, commencing the work
of George l. Knight of the State de-
partment of agriculture in checking
produce brought into the. State by
wildcat" truck operators.
Montana has IA agents at ports Of
entry for trucks and Is examining
every truck that crosses the line to see
that it complies with regulatory legis-
lation.
According to figures compiled by the
rate expertfor the State Railroad Com
mission, commercial car loadings in
Montana increased 1884 cars In May
over the total for April, aid were 1928
more than those for May Of q year
ago. The total for May of 1888 was
6,952; for April, 5018, while reports
are not compiled fully for Jure. In
dications are that June will show a
large increase over May. The total for
June, 1882, was 4,704. Mr.. Schaeffer
said the increase was a striking in
dication of brisker trade, even though
shipments of coal fell off markedly, and
in many other lines car loadingS have
decreased because of truck competition.
Coal shipments suffer by extension
of the natural gas systems. The larg-
est gain in May was In wheat.
Gov. Cooney has left for Seattle to
confer with Gov. Martin Of Washington
on matters Of common interest to the
two States. From Seattle Gov. Cooney
went to Los Angeles to attend the
conference Of 0overno1k -.-.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
BY L. M. THAYER.

Special Dispatch to The Star
HELENA, Mont, July 22.-The State
Land Board has adopted resolution
giving the Federal Government author
ity to do core drilling and test pit
work On the Fort Peck Dam project,
near Glasgow. Army engineers had
requested the authority and survey
of the project by them now is under
way
The State accountant, William Hos
king, reports to the State Board OF Ex-
aminers that appropriations by the
LEGISLATURE for the two-year period
ending June 30, 1888, exceeded the iE-
come by $1,245, $685. Total expendi-
lures for the period are not tabulated
Upon receipt of this report, Gcv.
Cooney. in a statement, said he Is
inclined to q sales tax.
All eight units of the zinc plant OF
the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at
Great Falls, it is announced, are now
in operation, giving part-time employ
ment to 1000 men. Part of the plant
has been idle for months.
The smelter at East Helena OF the
American Smelling & Refining Co. is
expected to open about August l. Sew
eral hundred men will be employed.
Gov. Cooney recently reviewed what
the State Is doing to break up what
4 characterized Is unfair" competi-
tion by trucks against the railroads.
Yba statement followed letter sent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
NORTH DAKOTA CORN
CROP HITS RECORD
Held Best and Biggest as Other
Grains Are Steadily
Diminishing.
BY KENNETH w. SIMONS.

special Dispatch to The Star.
BISMARCK, N. OAK, July IA
steadily diminishing small grain crop,
but the best and biggest corn crop in
history are the high spots of the North
Dakota scene
Tremendous gains In the grain mar
ket have improved the outlook in those
sections which will have a crop and
business generally Is better. Harvest
ing has begun in the northern half
OF the State, with fair to good yields
Of rye reported. In the southern half
OF the State there was very little to
harvest, because Of high temperatures
and drouth during June.
State and Federal officials continue
with the work Of setting up the ma
chinery to administer the allotment
plan and indications are that North
Dakota will sign up 100 per cent. The
new system Is in accord with a philoso-
ply which has been widely preached
in this State in recent years and the
move IS popular. Many farmers are
looking forward to payments this Fall
and again in the Spring to help out
with their living expenses,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
BY WALTER M. HARRISON.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BY WALTER M. HARRISON.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla July a.
Lines are now forming for the abol-
ishment Of the States 3.5 mills ad
valorem levy for the general fund on
August Is.
The regular and special sessions OF
the General Assembly jimmied through
q lot of special taxes5sales, income and
the nke-on the promise that property
taxes would be chiseled. To make this
possible constitutional amendment
was proposed which will reduce the
ad valorem taxes on all units, school,
city, county and State, from possible
maximum Of 43 mills to less than 80
mills.
State government functions largely
through the income from the general
funds, since the depression and cheap
oil has cut the gross production tax
income from multiplied millions to a
few hundreds Of thousands Of dollars.
Our special taxes take good care of
schools, but provide nothing for the
general fund. Oklahoma,s deficit, which
Is now In excess Of $4,000. 900, win
be doubled by the elimination Of the
ad valorem State levy.
That means but one thing. Chaos
looms In State finauoda1 AFFAIRS Nat
urally the people WIN vote for the ne
duction OF the property tax IN spfte
Q1 the fAet that this ohYto1sly Demands
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
WYOMING PLANS
WATER PROJECTS
Tri-State Conference or
North Platte River Fails.
Association Formed.
BY r. E. EVANS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


CASPER, Wyo., July 22-Aroused
by developments threatening possible
delay in the construction of important
Federal public works projects within
the State, Wyoming turned this week
to water problems and reclamation as
subjects of immediate commanding
interest.
Failure Of Colorado, Wyoming and
Nebraska In tri-state conference at
Denver to reach agreement on the allo-
cation Of remaining unappropriated
waters Of the North Platte River was
followed by the organization of State
Reclamation Association at a congress
held in Casper. Importance attached
to the movement was reflected in wide
and representative participation from
all sections at time when attendance
at all kinds Of conventions Is unusually
low. State officials and congressional
representatives, took an active part in
proceedings.
Controversy over the North Platte is
Of long standing. Colorado asks that
wyoming and Nebraska finance the
construction of lower basin reservoirs
for the conservation of flood waste in
order that she may utilize 10000 acre
feet additional through transmountain
diversion into another watershed. Ne
hraska wants protection of her existing
priorities in the river and increased
storage facilities which the Casper
Alcova project would provide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
COLORADO HIGHWAY
BUDGETS PLANNED
!. FOR s11,0D0,0DO
$2,492,497 Will Be Spent on
Roads and Trails in
Parks and Forests.
BY MAX HILL.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DENVER, Colo, July 22.-While
business men of the State turned their
attention this week to rising commodity
prices and fair practices codes under
the industrial recovery act, public
officials, both Federal and State,
planned highway budgets totaling ap-
proximately $11,0OO,000.
Under the public works program.
$2,492,4 97 will be spent on highways
and trails in the Government forests
and parks. OF this money good por-
ton will be spent on improving scenic
roads through areas nationally known
for their beauty.
Project in Every County.
Federal District Highway Engineer
j. A. Elliott this week received from
the State highway department the
proposed emergency budget OF $8,754,-
821, which provides for at least one
major project in every one OF the So
counties in the State. After the budget
is approved by Elliott, it will be sent
to Gov. E. C. johnson. Elliott's ap-
proval is necessary, because all of the
funds to be used come from the Federal
Government.
The State budget as given to Elliott
allocates S5,317,557 to projects on main
arterial highways, Ills, 632 to projects
on secondary roads, and the same
amount to projects in the various cities
and towns.
Besides administering expenditure Of
the public>works funds on Federal lands
in Colorado, Elliott will supervise the
work also in Wyoming and New
Mexico. The three States will receive
approximately $8,500,000.
To Set Repeal Date.
Gov. E. c. johnson was absent from
the State this week on an air trip to
Oklahoma and Washington, D. c.,
where he conferred with Secretary OF
War Dern, Secretary of the Interior
Ickes and Postmaster General Farley.
It was expected that while there he will
announce the date of the special session
of the Colorado General Assembly, to
be called to pass emergency relief
measures and probably to set a date
for a special election on prohibition
repeal.
Gov. johnson carried with him to
Washington the appeal of Oklahoma,
Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas
and Arkansas for 100000 to be
used in lake construction and flood
control projects in those States. The
money would be used mainly in the
drought areas. While in Oklahoma
the Governor conferred with Gov.
William H. Murray and representatives
OF the other States at Guymon. Okla.
Plans for Federal relief for home
mortgage owners moved ahead this
week, and John Lynch of Pueblo,
Colorado manager of the Federal Home
Owners Loan Corporation, said the
Offices in Denver, Pueblo, Colorado
Springs and Grand Junction probably
will be open the first of next week.
Colorado beet growers this week
were studying details of their first major
railroad rate victory from the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, which in
a decision tremendously important to
the State, reduced rates sufficiently to
allow beet sugar producers to compete
for the first time in the rich area sur
rounding Chicago. Rates were cut from
So cents to As cents on 60,000-pound
carload lots and to SO cents on 10000
pound carload lots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
BY WALLACE C. BLAKEY.

PcCldl DaSpatCn 10 Inc StaI.
LOS ANGELES, Calf, July a.
Renty-one thousand men, idle since
Las Angeles County's ALLEGATION Of Re-
obstruction Finance Corporation funds
became exhausted on July /, <Here put
bak to work this week and 5000 more
ar expected to be added during the
net week. Including both men and
women, this group Is employed on 800
wok projects Of various kinds through
out the county and represent cases han
dla by the county welfare department.
Unemployment was made possible by
a NV arrangement with the county su-
perisors. who will advance funds to
MAINTAIN the same rate Of pay as under
r.. ]. c. rulings, those funds to be re-
turnd to the county from future R. F.
C. finds and the recently voted 500
c00,00 State bond issue for uuemploy-
mentrelief.
wok on an $500 900 conduit to carry
water to Pasadena from the Pine
Canyn Dam in San Gabriel Canyon
is expected to start within 80 days, en-
ployin: several hundred men at so cents
an hor for a 30-hour week. The s.
foot conduit will be 1917 miles long and
is to e completed by March ~, 1884.
To hnlnce this work, Halsey Stuart &
Co. mxe the successful bid on q $685.
600 bbck Of bonds from Pasadena
$40 100000 water bond issue voted in
1929. They bid a premium Of $7,142.50
for 4s per cent bonds maturing
1ealty Turnover Growing.
ALWAYS an accurate barometer Of gen
eral property, the volume Of real es-
tate ACTIVITY in 10 major counties of
Southern and Central California Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
NORTHWEST HALLS
CHANNEL APPROVAL
RooseveIt's Action Spurs 0p.
timism for Rising Prices
and Job Increases.
BY C. d. JOHNSTON.
oecial Dispatch to The Star.


ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 22.-Inclusion
by President Roosevelt of the upper Mis-
sissippi River 9-foot channel project
in the national public works program
this week Spurred to new heights the
Northwest's optimism over rising prices
and wage and employment increases.
With victory for their long channel
fight in sight, Northwest farmers, mer-
chants, shippers and manufacturers
hailed as the greatest economic achieve
ment Of many decades the waterway de-
velopment which will counterfeit trans
portation handicaps they have suffered
since the building Of the Panama Canal
and will open up the Mississippi Valleys
access on equitable transportation rates
to both the East and west Coasts and
South America.
If the Federal allotment Of funds COM
Tennessee Valley project is forthcoming,
Minnesotans foresee the channel project
providing jobs for from 10000 to $4,000
men in the upper Mississippi Valley
States within year.
Predict Further Gains.
They also predict future gains, based
upon former estimates of Gen. Lytle
Brown, chief Of engineers, which will
amount to:
From 31a to 10 cents a bushel in
freight charges, amounting to an equal
increase in prices to the farmer on mil
lions of bushels of Minnesota wheat.
A saving of 100000 in trahsporta-
ton charges on 100000 tons of all
grains.
A saving Of from so cents to 81 ton
on 10000 tons Of imported coal.
A similar saving on 100000 tons Of
exported iron ore.
Is Dams in Program.
Col. G. B. Pillsbury. district Army en-
gineer, has informed Northwest ship
pers that the plans are completed for
the 9-foot channel, GAO miles long, from
the Twin Cities to the mouth of the
Illinois River, and including Is dams.
Available and now being expended Is
So ,200,0 900 in the annual river improve
ment fund, $13,000,000 has been ex-
pended on the channel development and
Sill ,000,0 900 more are estimated require
ments to complete the waterway linking
the land-locked Mississippi Valley with
the sea. Work can begin Immediately.
Col. Pillsbury says, when the Federal
board has made this years share of the
public works allotment available, and
thousands of jobs will be provided al
most Immediately.
Estimates submitted before Congress
hearings and the Shipstead- Mansfield
bill held that 100000 men would be
given employment If the entire inland
waterways program were undertaken.
Business Shows Increases.
Meanwhile, with more immediate re-
Spouse to other recovery measures than
can be expected from the waterway pro-
gram, business in general continued to
show increasing and steady gains, ex-
emplified by increased buying orders, nu-
nerous wage raises and rush of vari-
GUS industries to organize and formulate
codes, in compliance with Gen. Hugh S..
Johnson's industrial recovery program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
NEVADA SEES ROADS
WORK AIDING STATE
Banks Still Closed and Cattle,
Sheep and Wool Are Nov
ing Slowly.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

6peclal DlSpatCn 70 Inc othi.
RENO, New, July 22.-With more
than a dozen banks in Nevada still
closed, with cattle, sheep and wool NOV
ing slowly, although at somewhat bet
ter prices, the State looked today to
the highway program of the Federal
Government as an impetus to return
of better times, particularly for labor.
A highway program calling for ex-
penditures of more than $5,500,00 has
received partial approval from Federal
officials, and there is every indication
that work en- the many projects out
lined by the State Highway Depart
ment will soon be under way.
The road building program calls for
$3,524,000 on State highways, of this
amount $2,404, 900 being designated for
work on the Federal aid system out
side Of corporate town limits. The
State has been allotted $4,549,917 for
highway construction in the public
works appropriation bill and word has
just been received that Nevada,s share
of the S5O,O00,O0O for public and
roads will amount to S1,484,262. This
is to be divided by giving slips, 1852
for public land highways. $312,310 for
forest highways, $1,000 for forest roads
and $35, 1000 for Indian roads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
IOWA PAYS TRIBUTE
TO GILBERT HAUGEN
FOR STATE SERVICE
Proud of Late Representa-
tive's Record-Higher Corn
Prices to Be Sought.
By C. C. CLIFTON.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DIES MONIES, Iowa. July 22.-Iowa,
officially and actually. paid tribute Fri
day to Gilbert N. Haugen as he was
buried in his home town Of Northwood.
Mr.. Haugen died Tuesday at IA.
For "a years prior to last Fail Mr..
Haugen had represented his district In
the National House of Representatives,
achieving a national reputation for his
fearless championship Of agriculture:
Iowa was proud that he held the record
for service in Congress.
Mr.. Haugen died CT heart disease ana
complications following an attack of
influenza last Winter. At his bedside
when he died we're his daughter, Mrs.
Joe johnson of Northwood. in whose
home he was, and L. G. Haugen, vice
president Of the National City Bank Of
New York. Mrs. Haugen died 40 years
ago.
Corn-Hog Production.
Representative corn and hog pro-
ducers from 10 States met In Des
Moines Tuesday and committed them
selves to an aggressive campaign to
raise hog prices. Corn growers are In
terested because corn prices depend on
hog prices.
Earl Smith, president Of the Illinois
Agricultural Association, was elected
chairman Of a national committee OF
five members to bring about the desired
end.
The other committee members are
well Garst of Coon Rapids, Iowa; Ed
O'Neal, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, and c. w.
Gregory, editor Of the Prairie Farmer,
Chicago III.
The conference approved regulation
Of the production Of corn and hogs if
necessary to restore pre-war price levels
The committee has announced plans for
two-day conference next week with
Chicago packers with that end In view.
Industrial Recovery Code.
Iowa coal operators, who walked out
of a conference on a soft coal code il
Washington, announced in Des Moines
Wednesday that they would compile an
Iowa code and present it to the nation
al hearing on the 13-State code.
The Iowans, led by Sam Ballantyne,
Hugh A. Shuler and George c. Heaps,
jr., object to the ESTATE code on the
tAAdt 40 RlOSlolOilo dIC
without regard to Icwa's necessity to
mine its coal by hand, rather than me-
chanically.
The Iowa Supreme Court Tuesday
held unconstitutional legislation of las.
Spring designed to free $4,000, 900
public funds now frozen" In close
banks or segregated and unavailable il.
banks open under the supervision of the
State Banking Department.
The law proposed that the State Dor
row $4,000. 900, presumably from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
This sum was to release the frozen
credit of the various Iowa political sub
divisions. It was to be repaid BY :
l-mil levy and by beer taxes and
license fees.
Justice Truman Stevens wrote the
decision, holding the plan would create
illegally State debt In excess of $3.50,
600 without a vote Of the people. All
other justices. except Justice William
Evans, who took no part, concurred.
State Treasurer Leo Wegman indi-
Gated the forthcoming August session
Of the Legislature might be asked to
draft q new law which would allow the
State to borrow the funds legally.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
By 2EORGE F. FISHER,
special Dispsch to The Star

Special Dispsch to The Star.
OMAHA, July 22.-Cash registers
have been ringing In the stores of
Nebraska ever since the prices Of farm
products began to mount. Once more
the farmerR cars are parked in long
rows alongIthe curbs Of small towns,
and insteadbf deserted villages through
travellers ses little knots Of men and
women needing, clerks buster than
they have ben In more than year,
rushing about to serve customers.
Dollar what, corn that for the best
grade tops s cents, coupled with a
good prospectaor the corn crop Of 1888,
have inspired this activity. A week
ago the fafmet thought the depression
might be Overcome. This week, with
continuously rAing prices, they haye
begun to feel mare assured. -.