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Evening star., 1933-07-09
UTAH LEGISLATURE
TO ACT ON REPEAL
Extreme Drys Continue to Fight
Resubmission, With Special
Session Tomorrow.
Special Dispatch to The Star


SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. .J1lv B.
Prohibition continues to hold the SPOT
llght IN Utah news. 1t seems certain
that the Legislature, which meets in
special session next Monday, will do
something toward repeating the State
constitutional amendment, which limits
alcoholic drinks to one-half of l per
cent alcohol. Extreme drys continue to
nght reSubmlSSlon, however, declaring
that they are willing to have Utah vote
on repeating the eighteenth amend
ment, but think the State constitution
should be left alone until that is ac-
complished. Machinery has already
been arranged for voting on the twenty
first amendment, and this vote can be
taken whenever the Governor sets the
date OF election by proclamation. There
Is question, however, as to whether or
not a vote on an amendment to the
State constitution can be legal except
at general election, which means
waiting until November of next year.
Tourist travel to and through Salt
Lake City indicates that some people
have some money or expect to get it.
Automobile tourists registered In Salt
Lake City during June showed a IA per
cent increase over June of 1892. Also,
this Is the first time June increase
has been registered since 1928. Most
of the tourists are en- route to the Gen.
tury Of Progress Exposition in Chicago,
but many are going to Yellowstone and
other national parks near here. More
than so per cent of the tourists are
from Pacific Coast points. Incidentally,
there are numerous cars in Salt Lake
City now bearing Washington. D. c.,
licenses. These are generally driven by
Republicans who have returned from
Washington for an indefinite stay in
their home State.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
WYOMING PUSHES
RECOVERY PROGRAM
Changes in Public Offices and
Weather Conditions Share
Major Interest.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DlSpatch TO Inc STAR.
CASPER. Wyo., July 8.-Constructive
activities, changes in public Offices. and
weather conditions and their effects
share major interest in wyoming de-
velopments of the week.
State agencies are moving rapidly to
take advantage of Federal measures de-
signed to speed recovery, including
farm and home refinancing provisions.
Stockmen, favored by advancing prices.
are already enjoying the benefits of
similar help extended through the Agri-
cultural Credit Corporation in an ag-
gregate total of more than $500G,000
The State Highway Department at
Cheyenne, which is rushing plans for
S4.500000 worth of Federal aid work,
has witnessed another change in execu-
tives. c. H. Bowman, recently installed
as superintendent, resigned because of
i'll health and has been succeeded by
James B. True, State engineer, whose
place was taken by Edwin A. Burritt of
Buffalo. Cheyenne Is seeking designa-
ton as headquarters for Federal public
works offices for the State on the
strength of highway activities centering
there
Beer license funds will play a part
in city and county relief work. No
total for the State is yet available, but
returns run from a few thousand dol
lars in smaller counties to $4,000 and
$4,000 in moro populous ones, and
much of the money Is being appro-
priated to public works.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
RECOVERY MACHINERY STARTS
TO TURN In SOUTH DAKOTA
Reforestation Work-Bulding Revival Is Noted
in Cities-Community Gardens Provide Jobs.

of things this water will be stored in
artificial lakes created by damming
ravines and will be on hand for use Of
live stock and at the same time will
beautify the prairies by creating bodies
of water over the agricultural portions
of South Dakota.
Extensive highway work also will be
done with the national funds appor-
toned to South Dakota and several
thousand additional men will be given
employment. About $6,O00,000 will be
expended in highway work alone within
the borders of the State.
It is believed that as a result OF the
large sums of Federal money to be ex-
pended in the State people of the
cities and towns will be encouraged to
go ahead with building and remodeling
operations which they delayed because
of the economic depression. New
dwellings will be built to meet the de-
mand, old houses will be remodeled,
new roofs will be built to replace roofs
which have become sadly out of re-
pair and other improvement work will
be DONE There already Is building
activity in some Of the towns, particu-
larly at Lennon in the northwestern
section Of the State, :.nere q number
Of new business places are being con-
structed in the business district to re-
place structures which were destroyed
by fire.
The owners of the burned buildings
delayed the work Of reconstruction, but
now, believing a new and more pros
porous era is at hand, have decided to
60 ahead with the work Of reconstruc-
Evening star., 1933-07-09
BY WALTER M. HARRISON

Special Dispatch to The Star.
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 8-Okla-
homa turned aside from a three
cornered battle with drouth. depression
and stalemated legislative program
this week to mourn the death of Charles
NJ Haskell, first Governor. The fiery
executive. who took the saddle when
statehood arrived in 1907, died of pneu-
monia, following a stroke of paralysis
three months ago. He was 73 years old.
Out of respect for his memory, the
special session Of the Legislature took a
recess and the catafalque in the corri-
dor of the Capitol he first established
in Oklahoma City was visited by thou
sands who pitched their lots with the
youngest State when the aggressive
&C. NJ" was in the saddle.
The death of Haskell takes from the
picture the second of Oklahomas Cover
nors to pass on. Lee Cruce, the second
Governor Of Oklahoma, was the first
to break Eanks. He diedan 1882. -
Evening star., 1933-07-09
BY ALFRED BURKHOLDER.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SIOUX FALLS, S. OAK, July g.
Machinery rapidly is being placed in
position in South Dakota for the push
ing OF work in connection with the ma
tional industrial recovery act of the
Roosevelt administration. Hundreds of
men have been assembled in the Black
Hills for reforestation work, which will
prove highly beneficial to that region
This project will result in O new growth
of timber being started in areas which
have been swept by forest fires, or in
which the timber has been destroyed
by other causes.
The work Of the forest crews will con-
tinue for many months and numbers of
heretofore unemployed. men will, there
fore. have an opportunity of making q
living for themselves and families.
Camps have been established for the
men and they will be as comfortably
taken care of as If they were In their
own homes.
In other parts OF the State outside
of the Black Hills a vast amount of
work will be done with funds obtained
from the national appropriations for
recovery purposes. Some OF this work
will involve the construction Of dams
in ravines, with the object Of creating
lakes and the storing Of water for dry
seasons, such as South Dakota has ex-
perienced during the past three years.
In the past, vast amounts Of water
from the melting Of Spring SHOWS and
from Spring rains has been permitted
70 60. to waste. .,tUpder the new ocdex
Evening star., 1933-07-09
OKLAHOMA MOURNS HASKELL.
STATES FIRST CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Death Follows That of Lee Cruce.
Second to Occupy Highest Office-Murray
Signs New Tax Measures

Convinced that his fulminations were
completely futile and that the Legisla-
ture would not do his bidding, Gov
Murray signed the modified income tax
law and the gross sales tax of per cent
without exemptions. which he swore
many times he would veto The special
session has compromise cigarettes tax
to consider. which may make the Okla
hona fee 2 cents additional on a pack
age of fags. Then the Assembly should
adjourn finally in the sixth week of its
career.
Called to do Gov. Murray's bidding in
one short week. the Legislature got out
of hand, forced the beer election and
passed tax measures with such majori-
ties that the Governor saw that his
veto would be overridden. He preferred
to accept the Legislatures decision,
rather than have the measures passed
over his veto. Such course would
have further weakened his strength in
the next election, when he hopes to
name bis succeessr a. Governor. .-..-
Evening star., 1933-07-09
UPTURN SEEN In CAROLINAS
Optimism Prevails in North
Carolina Despite Many
Closed Banks.
BY ROBERT E. WILLIAMS.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RALEIGH, N. c., July ga spirit Of
optimism has been engendered in North
Carolina, the like of which has not
been seen at any period of the States
history except in the last decade, when
the State engaged in a program OF ex-
pansion which raised the State debt
from $1,000, 900 to S18O,000 900, with
accompanying expansion of credit by
counties and cities.
The change in sentiment is all the
more striking because the banking
crisis plunged the State into depths
of gloom Tor which it is necessary to
go back to the days Immediately fol-
lowing the Civil War to find parallel.
Some SO or more communities are still
without ordinary commercial banking
facilities. including the city of Green's
boro, with more than $4,000 population.
said to be the largest city in the United
States SO situated.
Efforts are being made to reopen q
number of the banks, but the spirit of
optimism comes from marked improve
ment already noted in business condi-
tions and anticipation Of benefits yet to
come from the New Deal"
North Cardinals largest industry, the
manufacture Of textiles. has already
had an improvement which has raised
it to the highest point in several years.
Much of the recent activity is attribut-
able to the placing CT orders so as to
avoid price increases expected to follow
adoption of the new textile code and
imposition of a processing tax on cot
ton.
But manufacturers, labor and mer-
chants are all looking forward to the
new day. which will produce revolu-
tionary changes in North Carolina cot
ton mills, with unmixed satisfaction.
1t would be difficult to overestimate the
improvement in conditions which will
be the lot of cotton mill workers under
the new textile code, which is expected
to go into operation July II.
Under the North Carolina law
women, who compose large proper
IS hours of work week and there is
no limitation for men.
The new code limits the hours for all
employees to 40 hours a week and, what
is perhaps more important. limits
operations Of the mills themselves to
30 hours week. When operating
under full time most of the mills have
kept their spindles going for 120 hours
a week, with operations for IA hours
not infrequent and the full span pos
sible of 1853 hours reached on extraordi-
nary conditions
No accurate figures on wages paid
cotton mill workers during the depres-
sion are available. but it is certain that
in the poorer paid mills the average
has been little more than half of the
new minimum Of $12 for q materially
shortened week.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
ARIZONA FORGING INTO LEAD
in FIGHT ON DEPRESSION
Several Forest Areas Present Busy Scenes With
10000 Young Men of Three States in Action
and More Jobs Opening.

construction and maintenance. The
State Highway Commission had pro-
vided for the expenditure of $4,725, 900
in its current budget. After it had been
set up the State received an additional
S250,000. The work will be done under
the State engineer.
Many other jobs will be created in
Arizona, it is believed, under this States
share Of the administration public
works bill
Arizonans are hopeful that several
committees in Washington will be able
to obtain a loan Of $500, 900 from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation for
development of the Verde River irriga-
tion and power districts project, en-
bracing more than 5000 acres Of citrus
land close to Phoenix.
The Salt River Valley Water Users
Association, operating the project under
the Roosevelt Dam, also is seeking q
lean. It Is asking for more than sl2,-
COG, 900 from the r. r. c for purposes
Of refinancing the association. :.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
Cotton Mills in South Caro-.
lima Working Day
and Night.
BY FITZ HUGH McMASTRR.
Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
COLUMBIA. S. c., July 8.-South
Carolina is definitely and clearly pull
ing out of the depression. This does
not mean that there are not yet very
many men and women out OF employ
ment. 1t does not mean that there are
very many white-collar men still work.
ing for S1.50 dav and being paid by
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
money But it does mean that there
are certain positive indications that
much better times are ahead.
A cotton mill hand met on the street
said, There is no need for any ex-
perienced cotton mill worker to be out
Of a Job now. The mill am working
for cannot get all the competent help
that it wants" He was working in the
Columbia Duck Mills. which produces
canvas and heavy cotton fabrics. 1t is
one Of the three largest mills in the
United States producing fabrics for
rubber industrial goods. such as auto
mobile tires, rubber hose and the like
1t uses 500 bales Of cotton a week and
employs 7C0.
Another similar mill, 80 miles away,
the Winnsboro Mills. owned by the
United States Rubber Co.. produces
only fabrics for automobile tires. It,
100 is running full capacity, SIS hours a
week, and using more than 100 bales of
cotton a day. Another smaller MILL
the Glencoe, producing only yarns, too
Is using 100 bales of cotton week and
is running both day and night shifts
And the Hampton group Of three great
mills. belonging to the Pacific Mills Co.
Of New England. which makes lighter
goods, but which employs 1900 men
and women and uses 1000 bales of cot
ton a week. is running night and day
What is said of the mills around Co.
lumbia Is true of the mills throughout
South Carolina. Cotton milling may be
said to be the main industry in South
Carolina. not excepting agriculture,
which in value of product is less than
that Of the cotton mills. South Caro-
lima is contestant for second place as
cotton manufacturing State in the
Nation.
A railroad employe, asked how times
were, said that they were improving,
and that the railroads were adding new
men daily-taking back employees who
The amount of freight handled is in
creasing daily. Both of these men are
laborers, and they but reflect condi-
tions which they see.
The crops in South Carolina are very
promising. Truck has been consider
ably reduced in quality and quantity
by prolonged dry spells, but the prices
are good, and the truck farmers are do
ing well. South Carolina's peach crop
is good and Is bringing good prices
It Is now on the market. Water melons
are coming on and are bringing much
better prices than last year.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
PROSPECTS BRIGHT
IN MEMPHIS AREA.
Probability of 12-Cent Cot
ton Spurs Enthusiasm in
Midmississippi Valley.
BY THOMAS FAUNTLEROY.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 8-Spurred
on by the prospect Of 12-cent cotton,
the people of the Midmississippi VAL
ley of which Memphis is the metropolis,
are looking up with a renewed enthusi-
asm to a season of unusual business
activity this Fall.
So confident are the planters that
the present favorable price of cotton
will be maintained and even raised,
that government agents are having
some difficulty in securing the quota
fixed by the agricultural credit admins
tration in the operation OF the cotton
acreage reduction plan.
The reason for this is easy to find.
In the first place. there is money in 12
cent cotton Following the tremendous
slump in the price of cotton in 1881,
the farmers turned to less expensive
methods of production. The result was
that for the first time in many years
the crop was made at a cost Of around
5 cents.
The beginning Of the 1888 season
found cotton selling around 6 cents
While the Government stepped in and
advanced money for the picking of the
crop through the Federal seed loan
Office, the cost of production was kept
low.
Coupled with the good feeling which
prevails because of the high price Of
cotton is the prospect Of general en-
ployment improvement in the Tennessee
Valley. The Muscle Shoals project, de-
signed to make another Ruhr, has not
yet taken on any of the suggestions Of
a boom, nor is it expected to. Pre-
liminary plans call for a gigantic dam
at Coal Creek in upper Tennessee. This
will be followed by an industrial de-
velopment in the lower valley.
While no definite plans have been
announced, DR.. H. A. Morgan. one Of
the three members of the Tennessee
Valley Authority. whose long experience
as president of the University Of Ten
nessee brought him in intimate contact
with rural problems, has made a study
Of the new industrialism. It is ex-
pected that some of his ideas will pre-
vail. If so, then the experiment so
successfully tried out at Kingsport,
Tenn, near Bristol, may be repeated at
Muscle Shoals. This contemplates
ldCGOIICo WlC1lOut COllScStpOIl, dllQ IlOIlcS
and schools on tracts of land which
virtually makes urban farmers out of
factory workers.
The prospect Of such a development
with the attendant revolution Of in
dustry is more attractive to the OBJ
server now than the possibilities of
power distribution to cities and towns
in the territory. That is expected to
come later and several plans have been
suggested, such as the wholesaling of
power by the Government to cities for
distribution by the cities, and the sale
to present utilities companies at q
charge to be fixed with q reasonable al
lowance for distribution.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
STORMS AND PESTS
TAKE HEAVY TOLL
ON |0WA'S FARMS
Small Grain Crops and Build
ings Damaged Through
out State.
BY C. c. CLIFTON.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DES MONIES, Iowa, July 8.-Iowa
agriculture took it on the chin this
week as nature did its bit for the
Roosevelt administration.
Chinch bugs have destroyed probably
one-fourth of the States potential corn
crop, estimates Carl j. Drake, State
entomolgist, after survey Of pest
ridden southern counties.
Torrential rainfall in various sections
has done little to relieve the plight OF
the wheat growers and growers OF other
small grains whose crops have been
injured by drought.
Storms in Northwestern Iowa accom-
panied the rains and destroyed thou
sands of dollars worth of farm and, in
some cases, urban buildings.
Murtagh Controls Outlay.
On Tuesday Charles Murtagh, State
controller, assumed central authority OF
State expenditures under Gov. Clyde
L. Herring
The law providing for GENERALIZATION
of State finances under Murtagh IS one
of 80 which went into effect on July 4.
The laws recognizing many functions
of State officials were passed by the
Democratic Legislature Of last Winter,
which is scheduled to convene In special
session in September.
State educational institutions will
carry on in Iowa with a reduction OF
So 100000. The chief reductions will be
| in salaries of instructors, practically all
of whom have had their salaries re-
duced in the last few years.
| Codes are being drawn up by all
manner of businesses to be submitted
| to national committees which will
polish up the State efforts and endeavor
| to formulate national business codes.
Bakers Receive Setback.
The Iowa Bakers Association re-
ceived a setback when 1t was told py
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal
lace that he would look into the anti
trust laws and their application to Iowa
bakers.
The bakers had announced that
July S they would increase the price
of scent leaves to 8 cents ana that OF
lO-cent loaves to IL cents.
Wallace pointed out that the 30-cent
a bushel Federal tax would not go into
effect until July 8 and would account
for an increase of less than ~ cent
a pound loaf.
Iowa bakers decided to postpone price
| increases.
Nelson G. Kraschel, live stock auc-
! tioneer and lieutenant governor IN
charge of public works in Iowa, an
nounced that the $50, 100000 he has to
spend in Iowa will be used to put the
head of every family to work by F'au."
Evening star., 1933-07-09
BUILDING UPSW|NG
ON IN CALIFORNIA;
LUMBER SALES Up
Motion Picture Industry Again
Spending Millions for New
Films.
BY WALLACE C. BLAKEY.
auecial Dispatch to THE Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOS ANGELES, July 8.-Marked up
trend in general structural activity is
Shown by 20 per cent increase in
lumber sales during the last 80 days
and return of ten lumber ships, that
have been tied up for one to two years,
into active service bringing lumber from
the Northwestern ports.
For the first time since August. 1881,
lumber receipts at Los Angeles Harbor
reached a total of 4O,OOOO0O board
feet. One thousand men have been re-
turned to work because of the new ac-
tivity.
Retail trade continued to hold its
gains during the last week. according
to Dun g. Bradstreets weekly review.
Light manufacturing is increasingly ac-
tive and increased employment is noted
In the tire, railroad and motion picture
Industries. Another 1-cent increase
served to beat down gasoline sales.
Millions for Movies.
An especially interesting sign of re-
neWed confidence is the pouring of mil
lions into motion pictures again, evl-
denced by announcements from vlrtu-
ally every jor studio in Hollywood.
in their programs for the next II
months. Forty to sixty major produc-
tionS and hundreds OF shorts are
planned in their new budgets.
Customs and postal receipts, always
regarded as reliable indiceS, both showed
an incl ease for June, according to Gus
toms Collector Seager and Postmaster
P. O'Brien. Postal receipts rose 13 per
cent over June last year, and customs
collections about As per cent.
A heated row has broken out between
Southern and Northern California over
the division of military defense work
proposed in California under the Fed
eral emergency administrator of public
works The southern contingent not
only contends tnat they received the
short end financially but that the per-
manent improvements to result there
from would leave Southern California
under a serious military handicap The
Army has allocated S5,841 ,3l2 and under
the announced program. 92.75 per cent
of this sum would be expended in the
San Francisco district with only 7.25
per cent in Southern California. The
major portion of the sum is to be eX-
pended improving aviation headquarters,
IL in the San Francisco area and 4
near Los Angeles.
Grape Growers In Bad Shape.
Leaders of Central California's huge
grape industry fear that serious diff
culties will be encountered in antici-
pated efforts to adopt some sort Of a
code for the industry under the new in
dustrial economy act. The vineyardiStS
have been hard hit for years under pro-
hibition and their plight is relieved very
little by present relaxed regulation of
the dry laws.