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The Washington times., 1933-08-28

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. "a
G.N.SO-Three more deaths from
sleeping sickness" raised the
total for the epidemic today to
80 as health experts investigated
the possibility that the African
tsetsr fly is spreading the
disease.
Thirteen new cases, bringing
the number reported in this Sec
ton to 266, further challenged
the battery of Federal, State and
city physicians striving to check
the dread encephalitis epidemic.
William Godin, a former resi-
dent of Borneo, reported to au-
thoritieS that he had seen an in
sect similar to the tSetse fly in
his back yard here. The fly is
regarded as the sleeping sickness
carrier in Africa.
Physicians directing the battle
to curb the epidemic here had
heretofore been of the opinion
that it was not the same disease
prevalent in tropical climates.
Two of the last three deaths
occurred in st. Louis county
while the third patient died in
the city.
Health Commissioner Joseph
Bredeck broadcast an appeal to
all physicians to order immediate
disqualification Of all cases where
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
RETAILER CODE
EYED At NEW
PARLEYS
Drug Group Quizzed by NRA
on Competition Puzzle;
3 Sides to Problem
BY international News Service

The National Recovery Admin
istration's desire for speedy action
on codes for retailers was demon
strated today when the drug store
and general merchandising group,
which sponsored codes at public
hearings last week, were sum-
moned for conferences.
The conferences were held in
the offices of Deputy Admins
traitor Arthur D. Whiteside. He
received the general retail mer-
chants first. The drug store
group joined the conference later.
1t is expected the conferences
will result either in the formula
ton of a master" code for all
retail establishments or a plan
to include in the separate codes
for different types of retailers
virtually identical provisions to
insure against inequitieS in cost
competition.
Cross Competition
The need for one or the other
of these agreements was made
clear in the hearings last week
when it was shown there was
great amount of cross-examination
between drug, grocery, variety
and general merchandise stores.
AS three codes were contem-
plated for these groups, the
variety and general merchandise
stores coming under one code, it
became obvious some method had
to be devised to force stores of
different types selling the same
sort of articles to compete with
each other on an equal basis of
hours, wages and trade practices.
There are about 100000 retail
establishments in the country.
Drug Stores a Puzzle
At last weeks retail code
hearing it was charged and dem
onstrated that drug stores sell
such variety of articles that
they compete directly with de-
partment, variety. shoe, haber-
daShery and even furniture stores.
At the later hearing on the
drug code it was shown that de-
partment, variety, stationery, con-
fectionery and shoe stores COM
pete directly with drug stores by
selling articles designed to pro-
mote public health.
1t also is we'll known that most
stores compete in a similar man.
ner viii grocery stores and vice
versa.
AS the drug stores of the coun.
try are customarily kept open
many hours more a week than
most other types of stores, the
NRA staff is faced with the prob
lem of getting equitable competi-
tive provisions into the separate
codes for each type of retail con-
cern.
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
SILK WORKERS
To STRIKE

PATTERSON, N. j., Aug. %
G.N.SD wenty thous n d
workers in the broad silk industry
will strike Thursday, officials of
the American Federation of Silk
Workers predicted today, unless
an agreement is reached with
employers calling for a 30-hour
week with a minimum wage of
$36.
A strike call was issued by the
central executive committee of
the silk workers union after con-
ferences over wage rates and
hours.
Seven thousand workers in the
broad silk industry here will be
affected by the call, while about
twice that number throughout
the country will join them.
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
AMERICAN BAR
STUDIES NRA

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Aug.
% G.N.SD.-A national program
for the American Bar, function
ing under the direction of the
bar association committee, is
the aim Of the American Bar
Association, holding its fifty-sixth
annual convention here this
week, according to President
Clarence E. Martin, Martinsburg,
w. Va, attorney. He said:
"We hope to arouse such en-
thusiasm for this united plan
that in time the program will
integrate and associate the bar
of the entire nation"
Martin wa Shere for sectional
meetings preliminary to the open
ing of the bar convention, proper,
Wednesday morning.
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
DEAR RAYMOND:

DEAR IA Y MOND.
It is with a sense Of deep
personal regret that I accept
your resignation as Assistant
Secretary of State.
need not tell you that I
appreciate and shall always re-
member your participation dur
ing these two years in the de-
velopment of policies based on
our common ideals. You have
rendered very definite service
to your country; and your de-
parture from an official posi-
ton to undertake an editorship
will give you an opportunity
to carry on the task in an
equally wide field.
The ending of our official re-
lations will in no way terminate
our close personal association.
I shall count on seeing you
often and in the meantime I
send you every good wish and
nv affectionate regards.
Faithfully yours,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
Forms Society to Fight
Cult, Fears for u.
S. Morals

Sponso red by "Americ a n
Mothers and Fathers for the pro-
lection of their children and the
coming generations, the Ameri-
can Anti-Nudist League today
turned it's guns on the perils of
nudism.
Heading the league is the Rev.
Jane B. Coates, bitter enemy Of
the unclad. Secretary and treas
urer of the organization is Mrs.
o. w. Ennis, 1900 block Fairmont
st. N. w., wife of DR.. Ennis, OF
the Carnegie Institute of Scien-
tific Research.
The first move of the league will
be to hold a mass meeting at
which resolutions will be passed
calling on the District Commits
aioners, the District Attorney and
the Police Department to drive
out the nudiStS.
Expansion Seen
The founders of the league be-
lieve that it will become interna-
Honal in scope, extending to
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
MRS. WHITEHEAD
To STAY WE'D

NEW YORK, Aug. % G.N.S.)
Farewell to Orange Blossoms u
will be the theme song for Mrs
Marian Hughes Whitehead's next
and positively final-march to
the altar, the pretty society
woman who divorced Conky
Whitehead in Chicago on Thurs
day, and now has announced her
engagement to Andrew Pierce, Sd,
woolens heir, let it be known to-
day. She said:
II intend to stay married
this time. There won't be any
divorce. 1 will have a real
home and settle down and
raise a family"
Her marriage to Pierce, son of
the head of the American Mills
and member of an old New
England family, will take place
very soon.
She was in charge of a charity
dance at the Ambassador last
fall and Pierce crashed the gate
by representing himself as an
unemployed musician" She eX-
planned:
"T didn't have a place pre-
pared at the table for him and
had to get out an extra chair
and plate. After the party he
bought champagne. I thought
it was very funny for an un-
employed musician to do so.
And next morning six dozen
American beauty roses arrived
frn,.n Ioivoo -
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
CLAIRE EXPECTS
To WIN SUIT

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 90
GN.SD Both sides today prom
ised new sensations in the
100000 love balm suit brought
against Claire Windsor, the
actress, by Mrs. Marian Read,
Oakland (CalD socialite, and
scheduled for trial Wednesday.
Mrs. Read charged that Miss
Windsor stole the love of her
husband, Alfred C. Read, jr., a
young stock broker.
The suit was filed in Oakland
and brought here under change
of venue.
Numerous letters from Read to
Miss Windsor, and from the
actress to Read, were expected
to figure in the testimony.
Miss Windsor expressed con-
fidence of a favorable verdict,
saying:
"The suit was filed so long
agO-it has caused me a great
deal of worry and trouble
and 1 am glad that at last it
is going to be over with for
once and for all, then I will
be able to get down to work
again.
"NOw that the thing has
been set definitely, I am sure.
as I have been all along, that
my case has all the merit.
Mr.. Read got me into this
mess and he is going to get
me out"
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
Roosevelt's New Adviser on Foreign Debts
Held Likely to be Pittman, Not Hull
MoIey's Resignation
Stirs Interest in
Successor
By GEORGE r. HOLMES

The resignation of Prof. Ray
mond Moley as Assistant Secre-
tary of State led to considerable
speculation today as to who is to
become President RooSevelt'S No.
l adviser in foreign affairs, par
ticularly in the matter of foreign
debt adjustment due to start in
about a month.
Moley has occupied that posi-
ton to an unusual degree for
more than a year. It was Moley
who was always at President
Roosevelt's elbow when foreign
affairs we're being considered, both
before and after inauguration. A
pronounced Nationalist, Moley
has been credited with greatly in
fluencing the Roosevelt interna-
tional policy.
The natural answer to the
question of his successor would
be Secretary, Of State Cordell
Hull, who is as sincere in his in
ternationalism as Moley is in his
nationalism. Yet the belief pre-
walls in we'll informed circles that
when the time comes to negotiate
the debts, Mr.. Roosevelt will have
other counsel than his Secretary
of State sitting in.
Possibly Pittman
It would not be surprising to
see Senator Key Pittman, of Ne
vada, chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations COMMITTEES,
playing an increasingly important
part in foreign policy in the Ad-
ministration.
Of all the statesmen in the Lon
don Economic Conference, Pitt
man was the only one, with the
exception of M. Litvinoff, the Rus
sian, who emerged with anything
tangible to show for his labors.
This was the silver agreement to
which Pittman devoted all of his
efforts. He carried it through in
the face of terrific opposition.
Moreover, Senator Pittman en-
tertains many of the same views
that Professor Moley does on in
ternational policy. Both are
strongly against debt cancellation.
Both are convinced that American
recovery must be worked out at
The Washington times., 1933-08-28

DEAR MR.. PRESIDENT:
For months I have given
long and considered thought to
the too happy and pleasant al
ternatives of either remaining
in an official capacity in your
Administration or of discontinue
ing my official status to re-
sumo my professional interests
in writing and teaching. The
development of the idea of
national weekly, which has now
been consummated by Mr.. AS
tor and his associates, has pro-
vided for me the answer. I
have decided that in joining in
this new venture, I cannot only
serve you best but also my own
inclinations and interests.
Has Two Motives
The regret that I should
otherwise experience at severing
my official tie with your Ad-
ministration is absent on ac-
count of the fact that this new
work permits me not only to
further the ideals common to
us both, but to continue to en-
joy the friendly association with
you that has marked the many
months both before and since
yOllr inauguration.
AS you we'll know, my partici-
patton in national politics these
past two years has arisen from
two motives. The one, my
friendship for you, together
with the deep conviction with
which I have shared your po-
litical views, and the other, my
personal dedication as a life
work to the writing and teach
ing of politics and government.
This new venture enables me
to fulfill both of these purposes
in a way that no official or
business office would permit.
Offers Resignation
My service as an official in
the Government was professed-
ly temporary. It has contin-
ued through the preliminaries
of your Administration and
now reaches convenient time
for its termination. I there
fore offer you my resignation
as Assistant Secretary of State,
to take effect, if convenient to
you, September 7. AS 1 do so
I pledge you my active and
continued support of the ideals
to which you have given such
a hopeful and auSpicious real
ization. I have with many
thousands of others found re-
neWed belief in turning the
power of government to the
alleviation of human burdens
and of ordering for the better
the economic life of the ma
tion. We have believed and you
have justified us in our De-
lief.
I regard this present oppor-
tunity to edit a national weekly
as opening the door to a most
important means of further
ing these ideals.
Friendship for you as great
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
Third Corps to Fill
238 Arn1u Vacancies

New recruits or former service
men will be enlisted to fill 238
vacancies in the Third Corps
Area, it is announced at corps
headquarters in Baltimore. Prac-
tically all branches of the SER
vice and all Army posts in Mary
land, Pennsylvania and the Dis
trict of Columbia have vacancies.
Recruiting offices are at Balti-
more, Harrisburg, Philadelphia,
and Richmond.
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
Shin1On Is Youngest
Detective Sergeant

Detective Patrolman Frank
Shimon, q, who left classes at
George Washington University to
join the Washington police de-
partment, will become the young
est detective sergeant on the
force, it was learned today. Shi-
mons promotion was held up
until he was exonerated by a
Police Trial Board of having used
third degree methods in "ques-
tioning" suspect in several
housebreakings. That charge grew
out of the alleged beating of a
colored prisoner in the Third
precinct station, where Shimon
is assigned,
The Washington times., 1933-08-28

ness. His disappointing contacts
with the statesmen of other
countries at London did not
Swerve him from that belief, not
withstanding that the Roosevelt
recovery progrem at home points
unerringly to higher tariffs than
now obtain if the code agree
ments now being fastened npon
American industry are to be pro-
tected against cheap foreign COM
petition.
Professor Moley took an oppo-
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
JOHNSON ON AIR
SEES VICTORY
Zone hundred percent under
the Blue Eagle"

"One hundred percent under
the Blue Eagle"
That is the goal set by Brig.
Gen. Hugh S. johnson for Ameri-
can trade and industry, and he
added:
1--WE cannot afford to fail"
In a radio speech last night
he said that from 10 to 80 per
cent of employers are now
aligned with the NRA program,
but that the ranks must be filled.
He said there must be neither
boycotts nor threats in the cam
paign; what is needed is The mis-
sionary spirit, not that of the
policeman or spy. But the Gov
ernment, he assured his hearers,
will use its full force against
"chiselerS."
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
JOHNSON RAPS
LAGGARDS IN
NRA DRIVE
Every Employer Must Be Put
Under Code Willingly or
BY Order, He Says
BY HUGH 6. JOHNSON
Administrator, National Recovery
Act

Act
(Written Expressly for International
News SerYiCe)
Today begins the seven-day
campaign during which an army
of a million and half volun-
teer workers are to marshal the
entire country behind the NFA
program.
1t is to be a houseto-houSe and
store-tostore canvass, and at the
expiration of the week every es-
tablishment and every household
are expected to have signed up.
Labor Day Goal
Ultimately, of course, every
employer. whether corporation
with tens or hundreds of thou.
sands of workers, or a little shop
with a single employe, will have
to come under the law.
Those who have not signed vol
untary codes unde the terms Of
the National Indua trial Recovery
Act vii have codes written for
them.
The NRA's hspe is naturally
that there should be no occasion
for the imposition of a summary
code. Various industrial codes
and the Presidents unemployment
agreement give the opportunity
for voluntary adherance. Labor
Day ought to see the entire ma
ton organized and the New Deal
functioning.
"Out of Luck"
The obligation is on the busi-
ness man and on the consumer
alike. The consumer is being
asked to sign a pledge card, by
which he agrees to support those
who are supporting the Presi-
dents plan for unemployment.
This is the final drive for the
new deal. The merchant, manu-
facturer, or any other business
that has signed the code will
get the business; the one VINO
does not will find himself out Of
luck,
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
NRA CONTENDS
L LAW RETAINS
STRENGTH
Change Agreed to BY Labor
Held No Interpretation
As to Open Shop
BY international News Service

BY International News Service
Nonunion employers today had
won their first concession from
the National Recovery Admins
tration in the approval of a code
for The automobile industry by
President Roosevelt.
The effect of the concession
which gives employers the right
to employ, promote, or discharge
workers on a basis of merit
alone-immediately became the
subject of a controversy.
Leaders in the automobile in.
duStry, which has operated as an
open shop industry from it's be-
ginning, fought hard for the
concession and obtained it in
modified form.
The Labor Advisory Board,
dominated by organized labor,
gave its consent after the pro-
vision was modified, and thus
indicated a belief that the pro-
vision will not halt the drive to
organize the automobile industry.
Merit Clause Granted
The automobile code, after SET
ting out Section (A) Of the
law which guarantees the right
tof collective bargaining, contains
this provision:
without in any way at
tempting to qualify or modify,
by Interpretation, the foregoing
requirements of the National
Industrial Recovery Act, en-
ployerS in this industry may
exercise their right to select,
retain. or advance employees on
the basis of individual merit,
without regard to their mem
berShip or nOn-membership in
any organization"
On recommendation of the
Labor Advisory Board, the Presi-
dent included the declaration
that the provision shall not be
regarded as modifying the law.
Nine Codes Use Clause
The reservation of the right
to hire and fire" on the basis
of merit, it was disclosed, has
appeared in nine codes submitted
since August 10.
The provision is said to be the
outgrowth of conferences of
open-shop manufacturers, who
plan to resist unionization even
after code is signed.
AS originally presented by the
automobile manufacturers, the
reservation was much stronger
but they consented to elimination
of their declaration in favor of
the open shop.
Law Still Stands
An official statement of the
Recovery Administration, pre-
pared by General Counsel Don
aid Richberg, and approved by
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, minimized
the effect of the concession. 1t
said:
Interpretations of the law
by proponents of codes have no
place in codes. The last SEN
tence of Section of the auto
mobile manufacturers code is
expressly stated as neither
qualifying nor modifying the
law and it has not been per-
mitted in the code as an inter
pretatiOn of the law"
When the provision was first
discovered, President William
Green, of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, and other men,
bers of the Labor Advisory Board,
were aroused. They consented to
its inclusion only after modifica-
tion.
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
ROOSEVELT

site view. Being a thorough
realist, Moley could not see
tariff reductions and currency
stabilization at a time when the
Administration at home was en-
gagged in setting up an arti-
ficially-protected market which
would require more, not less,
protection. Therein lay the roots
of the Hull-Moley differences
which came to the surface at
London and which now have re-
suited indirectly in Moley's re,
tirement.
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
johnson OnlyCiUiliGn
To Use Army Planes

The only civilian official in
the country who will be allowed
to use Army airplanes for travel
ing in the future will be Brig.
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, National
Recovery Administrator.
The Washington times., 1933-08-28

foreign lands where nudism now
flouriSheS.
Expulsion of nudists from the
country is advocated by the
founders, who charge that nudists
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
Moley's Resignation
And Note In Reply

HYDE PARK, N. y Aug 2S (U:SJ<-Folowng is the ert o
MoleyS letter of resignation Assistant Secreta
of Presidents repy
The Washington times., 1933-08-28
Sleeping Sickness Kills 80,
Tsetse Fly Blamed

symptoms suggest even a hint o.
encephalitis.
The Washington times., 1933-08-28

warrior and chief and a deep
sharing of political ideals are
precious. These remain and
give me encouragement and
hope as I undertake this new
task.
Faithfully yours,
RAYMOND D. MOLEY
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-09-14
OUR THINKING LAGS

If it took centuries for mankind to
appreciate the desirability of organ
izing into carefully bordered coun-
tries, certainly it will take many years
before there can be general realiza-
ton of the fact that prosperity de-
ponds upon the veal of neighbors and
that national existence can be safe
guarded better by friendship and CO.
operation than by strife and power.
Science has quietly gone ahead and
before our very eyes has melted down
old barriers to intercourse, as wit
ness the cable, the radio, the talking
motion pictures and ocean transpor-
tation. The world hes become an eco
nomic unit, with the ups and downs
of crops and industrial production in
one country affecting prices in every
other land. In short, national isola-
ton has become obsolete. Mans
thinking must keep pace with ma
terial progress.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-09-14
BIDS FOR COAL WANTED

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That
the Board of County Commissioners of
Garrett County, Maryland, will re-
ceive sealed bids until 1900 o'clock
noon, Monday, September 10, 1888, at
their office in the Court House, Oak
land, Maryland, for the requisite
amount of coal approximately $50
tons) to supply the Court House and
Jail until July 1, 1884.
Said coal is to be from mines in
Garrett county and to be of a quality
satisfactory to the Janitor.
All coal must be weighed on the
Oakland town scales before delivery
and weigh bills filed with the Clerk
of the Board for each load delivered.
The coal bins of the Court House
and Jail must be filled to the capaci-
ty by October 1, 1888, and all extra
expense incurred in the storing of the
coal must be borne by the contractor.
The Board reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids.
By order of the Board.
W. NJ. FRAZEE, Clerk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-09-14

at is also necessary and most i'm
portant that you keep secret every
thing that is said or done in the grand
jury room. Under no circumstances
should any of your members say any
thing to anyone as to anything that
occurs during your deliberations, nor
shall you permit anyone to ask ques-
lions as to anything that goes on in
the grand jury room. If anyone should
attempt to secure information from
any of your members as to what is
being done in the grand jury, it is
your duty to notify the Court of such
attempt"