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Evening star., 1933-09-24

Quartermaster Gen. John L. De witt,
who not long ago told q Senate investi-
eating committee he could purchase
camp toilet kits at q figure much less
than that paid by officials Of the Civ
ilian Conservation Corps, Is going to
have the opportunity to make good his
promise on new order for 150, 900 kits.
Camp Director Robert Fechner, whose
purchase Of 100000 of the forestry
camp "compacts" from the BeVier
Corporation Of New York for $1.40 each
created q storm some months ago, has
turned the purchasing job over to the
Army with q sigh of relief.
Nov forestry camp officials and War
Department authorities are awaiting
eagerly the opening Of bids called for
recently by the QuarteEmaster Depot In
New York City.
( II the prices are higher than those
paid for the nrst batch Of kits the camp
officials f1guratively will kick their heels
In glee-and they are certain the kits
cannot be purchased more cheap1y than
they purchased them from BeVier.
However, Army officials are expected
to cite the N. r. A. as an alibi II the
bids are higher than the IS cents per
kit quoted last June by Gen. De Witt
as fair price to pay. Prices Of toilet
articles have risen somewhat since then,
It was pointed out yesterday By . War
Department ofacer.
Gen. Dewitt told the Senate COM
mittee he had supplied some hts 70
soldiers for as low - - cents eAch,
Evening star., 1933-09-24
SETTLE PLANS new
SHAKESPEARE HOP
Flight Will Start From Century
Of Progress Grounds in
10 Days.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September %. Lieut..
Comdr. G.. w. Settle will make new
attempt to reach the stratosphere,
probably within 10 days, it was an
nounced tonight.
The flight will start from the Century
of Progress grounds, and will be made
in the same balloon and gondola in
which the pilots unsuccessful attempt
was made several months ago. The
bag has been repaired and the defec-
tive valve which caused the balloon to
drop down within a few minutes after
its take-off last time has been replaced.
Four hundred holes, cut in the fabric
by souvenir hunters after the first take
of, have been patched, hackers Of the
fight said.
Lieut.. Comdr Settle will take along
a collection of fruit flies to determine
what, If any, effect the cosmic rays
have on their genealogy. it was disclosed
Yesterday at Mount Pleasant, Mich.
bv w, Howard Perkins, engineer for
the manufacturer of the metal gondola
in which Settle will ride.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
new EXCHANGE WORK
IS ORDERED HALTED
Previous Lessee Fights Dispossess
Order, Claiming Valuable
Rights Impinged.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOBOKEN, N. j., September 23-
Work on the alteration Of the Centre
Market building for the New Jersey
Stock Exchange was ordered halted
tonight by Vice Chancellor John j.
Fallon.
An order to- show cause was signed
by the vice chancellor at the behest
Of the City Centre Corporation, pres
ent lessee Of the building. The order,
directed against the City Of Newark
and the New Jersey Stock Exchange,
calls for hearing.
Dispossess proceedings against the
corporation were instituted by the
city about month ago. A hearing
ON the dispossess case also Is sched-
uled to come before District Cour!
Judge Cecil H. Mcmahon next Tues
day. The corporation still Is the right
full lessee Of the building, 1t contends.
The order was obtained by Atwtl c.
Wolff, attorney for the corporation
who alleges that his clients own valu-
able property rights and good will In
their lease and that they have $780,
900 bond posted as q guarantee Of their
50-year lease.
All work at the building, which be-
gan with q rush this afternoon soon
after city officials and officers Of the
New Jersey Stock Exchange signed q
lease, was halted.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Negotiations Begun as Is,
Including Britons, Prepare
to Seek Haven on U. S.
Destroyer Off 0rienta.
3 WOMEN, 5 CHILDREN
VIRTUAL PRISONERS
Food Supplies short-Threat to
Cut Off Water-Matanzas Out
break, Believed Planned as Is
land-Wide Move, Comes to Quick
End-Crisis Looms in Havana.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, September 23.-The
American destroyer Hamilton
stood off the north coast of ORR
ente Province tonight, ready to
receive on board 16 Americans and
Britons held prisoners of striking
Cuban workers, but their removal
to safety was held in allegiance
pending negotiations with the
strikers.
Representatives of the sugar
mill owner planned to leave
Havana by airplane to participate
in the negotiations. Three women
and five children were among
those reported held prisoners by
strikers, with food running short
and no milk for the young ones.
Affairs in Havana seemed to be
moving toward a new crisis with
threat of famine in the capital,
spread of disease, and financial
difficulties hemming the admins
tration of Ramon Grau San Mar
tin on all sides.
Food Survey Started.
A rebellious movement in Matanzas
Province fell today, apparently of its
own weight, and the army supporting
the administration turned its attention
to Havana'S possible food shortage,
which resulted from strike of ware
housemen, still unsettled. The army
started survey of all the foodstuffs on
Havana docks.
The American destroyer moved into
position as near as possible to the be-
Seiged sugar mill when it became known
that food supplies were running short
Besiegers had threatened to cut off the
water mains leading to the homes of
the foreigners.
The mills are about a mile and a
half from the coast line. They are
owned by American interests, including
groups representer by Percy Rockefeller
and Vincent Astor.
Reliable reports said United States
officials were treating with the strikers.
Down the island. in Camaguey Prov
tnce, Juan Bias Hernandez continued
his revolt, reports reaching here say
ing he had engaged government soldiers
in skirmish near Jatibonico. Ten
rebels, including three of Bias Herman
dez' sons, were taken prisoner, the re-
ports added, and two soldiers were
wounded by machine gun fire.
Matanzas' Rebels Disperse.
The outbreak in Matanzas Province,
led by Isidro Rodriguez ard others,
came to a quick end when the rebels
decided to abandon their activities and
return to their homes. The Matanzas
movement was believed the result of a
miscarriage of plans for simultaneous
outbreak throughout the island.
The foodstuffs on the docks in Havana
have been tied up because the con-
signees were reported financially unable
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star., 1933-09-24
BAILEY AND BATES
RELEASE REFUSED
Seven Other Demurrers in
Case Denied-0ne Defend
"a
ant Freed by Judge.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, September
23-Unprecedented rulings by Federal
Judge Edgar S. Vaught today swept
aside demurrers Of nine defendants in
the Charles F. Urschel kidnapping con-
spiracy trial, won freedom for one man
and deferred judgment for two others.
Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates re-
ceived no consideration from the Judge,
who overruled their defense motions
without comment.
Bailey. bank robber, machine gunner
and prison breaker. is alleged to have
directed the kidnapping plot. Bates and
ter still fugitive, were named In Gov
ernment testimony as the actual kid
napers.
Charles Wolk, one Of seven defend
ants from Minneapolis and st. Paul,
was ordered released. Isadore Blumen-
field and Peter Valdez will learn Mon
day morning whether they must leave
their cases to the jury.
Money Traced to Four.
The four others-Barney Berman,
Clifford Skelly, Sam Kronick and Sam
Kozberg-were given no encouragement
by the judge, who declared that they
may not have known they were han
ding Urschel money. but that they
knew they had "hot' money in their
possession.
The prosecution traced $1,000 and
$500 Of the 5000, 900 paid for Urschel's
release to these four Twin Cities de-
PENDANTS, whose plea is that they knew
nothing Of the kidnapping but handled
the money in q liquor deal.
Judge Vaught turned down the plea
Of an attorney for r. G. (Boss) Shan
non, his wife. Ora, and son, Armon
Shannon, that they were coerced
under the death threats by Bates and
CONTINUED on Page IL, Column a.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
BOYCOTT BY LABOR
OF GERMAN GOODS
is SEEN BY GREEN
Predicts Retaliation by A. F.
of L. for Hit|er's Crushing
of Union Movement.
BY the Associated Press.

A boycott of German products by
American labor was held probable yes
terday by william Green in statement
describing the Hitler rule as medieval
revolving and sickening."
Saying "the terrorism in Germany
has gone to wilder and wilder extremes
and has resulted in open war on the
trade union movement and the torture
exile and even death of many trade
union leaders," the president Of the
American Federation of Labor added:
American labor is becoming con-
vinced that something more than pro-
Test is needed in dealing with the NaZis
we are being forced to the conclusion
that a boycott IS the only thing that
will bring home to the German tyrants
the adherence in which their rule Is
held by the rest of the world"
Sees Labor Crushed. -;
Green said he had "first-hand reports
from American observers who have WIS.,
tied Germany and who have brought
back direct and fndisputable evidence
of torture and of the complete crush
ing of the German labor movement by
the Hitler Nazi dictatorship"
Il believe this evidence will be laid
openly before our convention" he con
tinued, adding the annual meeting o1
the federation is to be held in Wash
ington on October 2.
THE Executive Council may make
recommendations" he explained. but
whether the council decides to do that
Or to leave the question to the judgment
of the convention without recommends
ton. it may be taken for granted that
there will be resolutions demanding q
boycott, such as labor in several other
Nations has declared.
"Since Hitler seized power in Ger.
many" Green continued, American
labor, in common with labor elsewhere
has watched the NaZi movement with
growing concern. Up to now, American
labor has made no move to join official.
ly in the boycott of German goods nov
under way by European trade unionistS
Individuals on Boycott.
However, many individual trade
unionists have undoubtedly been refus.
ing to buy German products, especially
in the larger centers, where the boy
Continued on Page 2, Column So
Evening star., 1933-09-24
GIRLS BODY FOUND
WRAPPED IN BLANKET
Murder by Blows on Head Is
Theory; Spot Also Scene of
Franks Staying Discovery.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 23.-The body
Of q young woman, carefully wrapped IN
q khaki-colored blanket, was found to-
day by two fishermen In the rushes
along the rim Of Hyde Lake In the
South Side.
Police expressed the opinion the girl
apparently about 18 years old, had been
murdered by blows on the head.
The spot where the body was found
Is only about two blocks from the place
where the body Of Bobby Franks, slain
by Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold
several years ago, was found.
The blanket was pinned about the
body with half dozen large sized
safety pins. Police Lieut.. Vaughan said
the body probably had been thrown on
the lakes edge by one man about "a
hours before 1t was found.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
LINDBERGHS TO VISIT
MOSCOW IN FEW DAYS
Whether They Will Travel by
Plane or Train Has Not
Been Determined.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LENINGRAD, U. S. s. R., September
23.-It was understood tonight that
Col. and Mrs Charles A. Lindbergh
have decided definitely to visit Moscow
within the next few days, but whether
they would travel by plane or train was
not yet determined.
They were honored guests tonight at
a banquet at the Astoria Hotel, with
high officials of military and civil avia-
tion as the hosts and more than 100
in attendance. The couple spent most
of the day visiting the Hermitage Art
Gallery and the museums and palaces
at Peterhof, the former Summer home
of the Gar.
It was believed the colonel might
have difficulty in landing in the mar
row Moscow River with his own sea-
plane, and there was possibility he
might make the trip to Moscow in a
Soviet land plane.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Greenback Initiation
Plan Is Out, Says
Roosevelt Adviser
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
At least one method of dehation was
declared to have no part in the ad-
ministration's present plans last night
by an official who participates in all
President Roosevelt's financial discus
Sions.
This, he said, is the plan under
which the Treasury would issue United
States notes, and use them to buy in
Government bonds, the latter to be
held as backing for the new currency.
Such a course was authorized by the
Thomas amendment to the extent Of
$1,000 ,000, 900.
1t was said authoritatively also that
the Federal Reserve System has no
present intention of increasing its rate
OF purchasing Government securities.
This method of expanding credit was
described as having proved a distinct
disappointment.
Gold Content View Undisclosed.
The elimination of the greenback
plan would leave the administration
with one principal approach to the con-
stantly agitated imitation question-that
of reducing the gold content of the
dollar-and the official in question
would give no indication whatsoever as
to President Roosevelts attitude to-
ward it.
These subjects, particularly the in
tensive campaign to increase bank
credits, are to be discussed thoroughly
tonight at the White House confer
ence to be attended by almost all Mr..
Roosevelt's financial advisers.
The greenbacks- for bonds plan was
the subject of heated argument when
the Thomas amendment was before
Congress. It was roundly denounced
by some Republicans. Senator Glass
of Virginia, the veteran Democratic
congressional authority on banking and
currency legislation, while opposed to
the amendment, declared this phase
the least Objectionable part Of it.
It has been suggested that currency
thus issued be disseminated in connec-
ton with bond issues intended to
finance the huge public works program,
a course that received hearty backing
from some congressional exponents Of
imitation.
Would Maintain Balance.
The gold reduction clause, in oper-
alton, is in some quarters linked with
the much discussed and many-named
commodity dollar" Under this plan
the dollars gold value would be cut in
the same proportion as the general
price level has fallen since some par
ticular date to be arbitrarily selected as
q normal period, possibly 1926.
Rising prices thereafter would bring
proportionate additions to the gold con-
tent and price decli .es further propor-
tionate cuts, the object being to strike
and maintain a balance between prices
and purchasing power.
The Thomas amendment authorized
lCnntinued on Pare 4 CoI,rax, q
Evening star., 1933-09-24
CITIES |NS0LVENT,
MAYORS DEMAND
BANKRUPTCY RIGHT
Conference Says Congress Is
Sole Hope-Ickes De-
nies Red Tape.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 23.-Declaring
hundreds of American cities are hope
lessly insolvent, the United States con-
ference of mayors tonight called upon
Congress for laws making it possible
for them to go through bankruptcy.
Many cities have interest obligations
which they cannot meet, the 80 mayors
attending the conference agreed in a
resolution, and their debts are mount
ing so rapidly that bankruptcy Is the
only solution. They declared that an
industrial corporation in such financial
condition would have entered bank
ruptcy long ago.
There are in the United States at
this time approximately $500 govern
mental units actually In default in the
payment Of principal or interest or both
upon their outstanding indebtedness,
and q recent survey discloses that the
number Of defaulting units Is rapidly
increasing" the resolution said.
Hurts Solvent Cities.
1.-THE fact that these cities are in de-
fault Is having serious effect upon the
credit of all solvent municipalities. Be-
cause Of constitutional restrictions, the
StaCeS are uQ2Dle 10 enact necessary
remedial legislation, and action by the
national Congress is necessary If these
hopeless inselvent units are ever to be
restored to a solvent condition"
The resolution urged passage Of the
municipal adjustment bill, sponsored in
the last Congress by Representative
Wilcox Of Florida.
Among the chief executives who
urged passage Of the resolution was
Acting Mayor John w. Smith Of De-
troit. He declared bankruptcy to be
"the only OUT for his city.
In other resolutions the mayors ex-
pressed requests for Federal laws to al
low the Postal Savings Banks to accept
municipal funds and public depositories
and to make possible purchase by the
Government Of tax warrants, notes or
certificates from cities.
Earlier today they had heard Secret
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Evening star., 1933-09-24
Custer of O'Brien
From Ticket Seen
In Farley's Moves
Latter Meets New York
Leaders, Drops Hint of
Change in Ballot.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September 23-Post-
master General James A. Farley to-
night stepped into discussions over an
independent Democratic mayoralty
candidate. giving rise to reports he
might ask Tammany Hall to withdraw
Mayor John P. OBrien from the race.
Farley, who arranged conferences
with party leaders on his return late
in the day from Bridgeport, Conn, was
being quoted in well informed circles
as remarking that the city's political
picture would be changed completely
within the next week.
Whether this meant a substitution OF
Mayor O'Brien. the entrance Of third
Continued on Page 2, Column D.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Means Of Turning Millions Into
Trade Channels to Be Worked
j Out With Advisers Tonight.
THOMAS WARNS CONGRESS WANTS
IRRATIONAL INFLATION'' AT ONCE
Steps to Reduce Rates of Interest to
Borrowers and Depositors
Z Urged by Lonergan.
BY the Associated Press.


President Roosevelt has summoned his financial
the credit his renvgoraed
that now is focused tagging agriculture.
Release of millions of dollars in closed pumping
into channels Of other idle millions
described yesterday the main objective parey has
been set for tonight.
BY moves last week and others still in contemplation
straon stirring sagging farm prices activity
wheat advanced yesterday with the
ment stood ready to loan minimum prices agriculture
modities.
President Counting n Bankers.
Mr. Roosevelt has said he wanted
industrial the swing promoted by N A. cauas
paign
He relying the promise backing to stimulate the
needed credit the
immediate imitation OF currency has not been indicated
this is in the hands the
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Would Jail Red Listeners.

FRANKFURT ON -THE-MAIN, Ger
many, September % @;-A police de-
cree issued today prescribed incarcera-
ton in concentration camps for persons
who listen in on Communistic propa-
ganda broadcast from Moscow.
The decree applied particularly to
cases where guests were invited to hear
the reception.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
TAX TO Be PLACED
ON LEGAL LIQUOR
CAUSING CONCERN
Legislators Fear High Levies
Would Decrease Antici-
pated Revenues.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

How much tax can legal liquor bear
before excessive prices will turn many
people to bootleggers again?
Crudely, that is the question which is
causing concern for Senator Pat Har-
rison of Mississippi, chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee. and other
members of the National Legislature.
If the, price Of legal liquor becomes
too high, its consumption will fall of.
The revenue, which Is expected to wipe
out in part the deficit IN the Treasury,
permit the repeal of some of the taxes
and pay for the public works program,
will decline. indeed. under those conoi-
tions.
The problem of the Federal liquor tax
has become all the more acute because
some Of the States, intrigued by the fact
that the eighteenth amendment is soon
to be repealed and needing more revenue
themselves, are beginning to levy taxes
on the manufacture of liquor. Already
New York State has imposed tax of 81
gallon on the production of liquor. The
Kentucky Legislature is considering q
tax of so cents q gallon on production
and there Is heated argument over a
proposal to lay an additionl tax on
whisky stocks now In the Blue Grass
State.
Taxes Will Boost Price.
It IS quite clear that if the States
where whisky IS made all tax the liquor
produced within their borders, the state
taxes plus the Federal tax will shove
the price Of legal whisky higher and
higher.
Before national prohibition, the Fed
eral Government alone laid production
taxes on liquor. The States contented
themselves with taxing the distribution
OF liquor, through license systems. The
estimates OF big returns to the Federal
peal of the eighteenth amendment
failed to take into consideration what
the States might do in this matter of q
tax on production.
Senator Harrison is considering the
advisabtlity Of putting through q law
which would apply the principle
adopted by the Federal Government in
dealing with estate or inheritance
taxes. Under this proposal, the Fed
eral Government would collect all the
tax on liquor production and then
share with the States.
At one time in the Coolidge admin
istration it looked as though the COM
bined State and Federal income taxes
might reach the point Of confiscation.
Mr.. Coolidge evolved the plan of COM
bining the two, having the Federal
Government collect the tax, and then
share the total proportionately with the
States.
Tax Experts to Make Study.
Under the proposal now advanced, an
effort to determine Just how great q tax
liquor can bear, and return to the Gov
ernment the maximum amount of rev.
enue, will be worked out by the tai
experts. These experts will bear ir
mind also the fact that the price OF
liquor must not be showed so high as
to encourage traffic in illegal liquor
through the bootlegger. The plan con.
templates q division of the revenue
from liquor production on q 65-3s
Continued on Page 2. Column a.