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Evening star., 1933-07-02
MICHIGAN FORCES
STEADILY TOWARD
BUSINESS REVIVAL
Bank CIosings Were Blow,
With HaIf Billion in
Detroit Tied Up.
BY PERCY c. POWELL.

DETROIT. July Faced with an
unprecedented depression and a grand
jury investigation touching men and
Institutions high in the Nation as we'll
as in the State. Michigan is making
q courageous effort to recover its
financial equilibrium with some success.
The task, however. is herculean and
It will take long period to recover
the wealth lost in the depression period
There are two major industries in
Michigan. One is the automobile and
accessory manufacturing business center
ing around Detroit The other is furni-
ture manufacturing centering around
Grand Rapids. This latter industry
has suffered to some extent but it is
better organized than the automobile
business, which outranks it in impor
tance hundredfold.
Several years ago there was
slackening in the automobile business
and manufacturing became confined
largely to requirements.
Closings Real Blow.
It was last February when the real
blow fell. A terse announcement came
through the press and over the radio
that Gov. William A. Comstock had
declared a bank holiday in Michigan.
This announcement precipitated similar
action throughout the Nation.
When the holiday ended weeks later
hundreds of banks remained closed.
While a number have opened since,
the United States Treasury Department
reported last week that 48 national
banks remain closed while the State
reports more than 100 State banks
still closed
In Detroit the First National Bank
and the Guardian National Bank of
Commerce. the two largest institutions
in the CITY. with 100000 depositors and
S500,000 900 in deposits, remain closed.
These banks contained easily 80 per
cent of the city's depositors. and SO
far only 40 per cent of the money has
been released.
These failures, together with heavy
tax delinquencies, forced the city gov
ernment to pay in script. despite the
heavy trimming of pay rolls by Mayor
Frank Murphy. who now is governor
general of the Philippines.
Marked Upturn Felt.
In the last two months Detroit and
Michigan have enjoyed a marked re-
vival in business The records of the
United States Department of Commerce
show that the manufacture of auto
mobiles in May. 1888, totals 1862,
and trucks 1859. as against 157.756
automobiles and 26,539 trucks in May,
1892 and 108,326 automobiles and
2l.7l8 trucks in January, 1888.
A further optimistic note is the June
survey of the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce, which reports
that automobile and truck manufactur-
ing in June will total u per cent more
than in May. 1t is admitted there is
some nervousness manifested by manu-
facturers, however. because of uncer-
tainty at the London Economic Con-
ference.
The national recovery act is being
hailed with delight from all sides. 1t
is looked on as determining factor
in business revival throughout the
State.
Evening star., 1933-07-02
new CONNECTICUT
LAWS FACING TESTS
Minimum Wage for Women and
Minors and Milk Price Control
Hold Court Interest.

HARTFORD. Conn. July 1.-Two ex-
periments embarked upon by the bien-
NAL session of the Legislature which
ended early last month, a minimum
wage law for women and minors in
sweatshop industries and a minimum
price for milk, apparently are slated for
court tests. The milk price law, the
major farm relief" act of the Legis-
lature, places control of the minimum
prices for the various grades Of milk
in the different markets in the State
with board of three members. The
act became effective last Saturday, June
"a, and already various groups OF small
and independent dealers have formed
organizations and promise to take the
measure to court on constitutional Ques-
tions.
The minimum wage law becomes ef-
fective today, and the State Federation
of Labor has indicated that it Will not
wait long to file complaints. One OF
series of amendments to the State labor
laws put through as a result OF months
Of agitation against sweatshopS, the act
is made applicable only to women ana
minors with the hope that through that
limitation it will escape the constitu-
tional hazards of a general minimum
wage law. It provides for the establish
ment of a minimum wage for any IN.
dustry complained against by a board
Of nine, three representing employers,
three employees Ind three tho pubic,
Evening star., 1933-07-02
DROUGHT AND BUGS.
CUT DOWN |OWA'S.
FARM SURPRISES.
Oats, Barley and Wheat All
Feel Effects of Heat and
Dry Weather.
BY C. C. CLIFTON.

DES MONIES. Iowa, July drought
and chinch bugs are playing their part
in Iowa to aid the administrations
campaign against farm surpluses. Oats.
barley and wheat in all sections Of the
State have felt the disastrous heat and
dry weather in shrivelling the small
grain crop.
The tame grasses have Jared no worse
than wild and forage grasses. Dairy
men have turned to buying food for
COWS where pastures have been baked
dry. In some cases the oat fields
have been converted into pastures.
AS yet. however, the drought has had
little or no i'll effect on the corn crop.
But July as cry and as hot as June
has been will wreck great damage on
Iowas chief grain.
Chinch Bugs.
Southern Iowa's corn fields that
billoW like an ocean are having Oil
poured between their waves. The Oil
will prove the death of millions Of
chinch bugs, Matched in the recent dry,
hot weather.
Chinch bugs poke proboscis into
growing plants, suck out the life sap
and depart. leaving in their wake fiat
tened and withered fields. At this time
Of year they go afcot-though they
will fly later-and the Oil will stop
their progress. Stymied by the OIL
they are led aside into post holes,
where more oil is poured on them
and the chinch bugs die quietly Of
strangulation.
Industry.
On the other hand, Iowa industries
have been spurred by rush of buying
And, since industry contributes an
equal amount with agriculture to the
States income, things are looking up
in Iowa for manufacturers of textiles,
washing machines, cereal products and
machinery.
Des Moines mills, which produce
hosiery and rough work clothing, are
working full time and, in some cases,
textile factories are working several
shifts.
Formal Recovery.
Iowa textile manufacturers are al
ready involved in working out code
under the national recovery act. and
are being seconded by Iowa coal miners
and operators.
L. P. Love, K. G. Carney, John H.
Ramsey and Sam Ballantyne, all of
Des MoineS, were in Chicago June %
conferring with representatives of coal
operators from 10 other States. They
were chosen here after Iowa operators
approved the tentative national code
in two-day meeting Monday and
Tuesday.
Druggists and oil men Of Iowa also
met last week to discuss the recovery
act and meetings of eight more groups
will be held in Des Moines in the next
few weeks
Evening star., 1933-07-02
Washington State
Lumber Industry
Hastens Recovery
Public Works Program
Gets Under Way to
Employ Thousands.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SEATTLE. July with men re-
turning to the mills and camps by the
hundreds weekly, Washingtons basic
industry, lumber. is apparently on the
upgrade after 80 months virtual shut
down, and as result this State is
slowly but surely shaking off the spirit
of depression.
The timber pay roll has been the
States most important. It has slowly
dropped off since 1929 until during the
Spring of this year it was but "a per
cent of normal. Naturally everything
else slid off
The revival of the industry is re-
f1ected all down the line. A more
nealthful feeling is being evinced.
Business generally is picking up. On
top of this the Supreme Court has
placed its approval upon a S10,000,000
bond issue to stimulate employment
through public works.
This approval was made on the the
ory that the State faced "insurrection
and revolution" unless some relief was
afforded. The money is now available.
The program of necessary work to be
done is virtually ready.
On top of this the State has been
allotted more than $6,000,000 out of the
Federal public works measure, and the
State Highway Department has another
$4,000, 900 available, providing direct and
indirect employment to around $4,000
to $4,000 persons Immediately.
This has apparently turned the tide.
While the State authorities have been
engaged in working out these programs,
however, another element has entered
the picture.
In King County, Superior Court
Y,,lc T1t hoe
protection because of "a deliberate
campaign of annoyance" on the part
of the radicals and unemployed di-
rected against him. He has been one
Of the jurists who has been compelled
to issue eviction notices against per-
sons who refuse to pay rent bills.
He has been subjected to disturb
ances at his home, and in some in
stances to threats.
Seattle is apparently a hot bed Of
radicalisn. During recent trial here
of Is persons charged with rioting and
resisting the King County sheriff in
carrying out an eviction order, one Of
the defendants calmly informed the
court that Nationwide revolution"
was brewing. This Nation, he said, was
ship of the proletariat," following q
"bloodless revolution" in which some
Capitalists who might resist will prob
ably be hurt"
The State is also right now engaged
in q rather spiritless wet and dry
campaign. Early in August special
election will be held, at which time
each legislative district will elect
delegate to a convention in September
for the purpose of repeating or re-
ratifying the eighteenth amendment.
Under the legislative enactment, each
district, 80 of them, will select dele
gate, the vote of the district to be
controlled by the total number of votes
cast on the question of repeal. The
candidate heading the list of those on
his side Of the question will be de-
clared elected If his faction draws the
majority vote.
Evening star., 1933-07-02
BUSINESS AND AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK O.
NEBRASKA PUTS
LIFE IN PUBLIC
ENTERPRISES
Stirred by Word
That Loans FAVOR
Ready Projects.

OMAHA, Nebr., July 1.-Nebraskans
find it necessary to move quickly in
order to get in on the ground floor with
projects for approval under the in
dustrial recovery act. The speed with
which the measure became a law was
not matched by preparedness in the
State Word that ready planned enter
prises will receive first consideration
however, has given impetus to several
groups who long have hoped for
financial backing for power and flood
water control
Drouth, such as has hit this Sec
ton, emphasizes the benefit that would
come from water storage. With the
possibilities that would be derived from
large power plants, pioneers in the
movement think they see the fruition
of years of dreams.
Five projects already have taken
form. Leans from Uncle Sam are to pe
sought for the following:
The Sutherland project to supply
supplemental water for irrigation puf-
poses to the already irrigated territory
between North Platte and Kearney..
The tri-county plan. including the
Sutherland project as its first develop
ment, but calling for construction of
other reservoirs along the Platte River
ana OIluSlHS uiluel AiIeaIio!i iai 80
territory in Central Nebraska, often
semi-arid This is in the locale Of
Senator George w. Norris home. Ne
braskans are looking to him to be Of
aid.
Loup River Projects.
Three proposed projects are on the
Loup River, the one large stream i'll
the State, outside the bordering Mis-
souri,, that seems never to run dry
These projects are located, one at Co.
lumbus, on the Platte, power dam;
one on the Middle Loup, a power and
irrigation proposal, and the third on
the North Loup, with the same double
purpose.
A sixth proposal, yet in embryo, is
known as the 66-county district and
would combine all the proposals in one
district, entailing an expenditure OF
S35, 100000.
Listing of all projects, which may be
financed through the recovery act, was
started at a Statewide meeting at Lin
coin this week sponsored by the Ne
braska Manufacturers Association. A
call went out for complete descriptions
with estimated costs for submission by
July Is. Attending this meeting were
300 business men. manufacturers mem
bers of county boards and chambers
of commerce A newly formed Asso-
ciated Industries of Nebraska Is the
parent organization.
If the Federal ruling requires local
bond issue as a prerequisite to the
extent of 70 per cent of the cost OF
these undertakings, local sponsors be-
lieve the public will overcome its an
tipathy to further funding operations
enough to help the cause along.
Nebraska rivers send enough flood
water into the Missouri to account for
a large share of damage in the lower
Mississippi at seasons when there is no
need for it on the prairies. At COM
paratively small expense, these might
be impounded, according to John w.
Towle. Omaha, chairman of the
Nebraska Committee on Trade Re-
covery.
Evening star., 1933-07-02
HORSE RACING DRAWS
LARGE CROWDS DAILY
Legalizing Of Pari- -Mutuels Proves
Popular in New Hamp-
shire.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
MANCHESTER, N. H., July l.
Rockingham Park at Salem, N. H.,
where the running horses are in full
swing. with legalized pari-mutuel bet
ting, is drawing the crowds daily. With
the best of the second division horses
and q big play at the mutuel windows,
Rockingham bids fair to be in the
major show soon. The handle We'd
nesday was over $129,000, while last
Saturday $134,000 was handled. Lou
Smith, well known in racing circles, Is
head Of the park.
One of the worst Summer storms
struck Woodsville Wednesday night,
causing considerable damage to grow
ing crops, blowing down trees, while
highways were blocked by landslides.
The rest of the State continued to
swelter in the heat.
S. O. Huckins, well known Ossipee
citizen, has presented the State De-
partment of Fisheries and Game 1000
acres Of land in the town of Freedom
near the shore of Ossipee Lake and
embracing Black Brook, one of the
finest streams in the State. The area
will be used to develop rearing sta
tions for fish.
Miss Eunice Patch of Francestown
has been named as director of public
welfare by Gov. John g. Winant. Miss
Patch win have charge OF all public re-
lief outside .1pf institutions and viii
name 1eei0n4 directors 70 assist han
Evening star., 1933-07-02
IdahOans Believe
Another Special
Session Is Likely
Last Meeting Hardly Over
Before Talk Centers
on Revising Taxes.
rrec;o,Disnatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOISE. Idaho. July 1.-Idaho's Spe-
cial session of the Legislature, which
legalized 80 beer and authorized sale
of endowment fund securities and re-
investment in State warrants, mao
scarcely started its work before talk OF
another session was being heard.
Demands for a second special session
to revise the entire tax structure OF the
State in an effort to secure additional
needed revenue were beaten Gown py
administration forces.
AS the session adjourned late last
week, it was freely predicted that
tax-revision session would be called by
January, 1884. Gov C. Ben Ross Is
hopeful that improved conditions by
that time will permit taxpayers to meet
their obligations to the State and make
another session unnecessary.
Beer Goes Through.
Little difficulty was encountered in
enactment of beer legislation. Petitions
had been pouring in from all parts OF
the State TOR months, demanding That
the Governor call special session Tor
legalization of beer. Idaho, surrounded
by beer States, felt the loss OF business.
When the session convened on June l9,
Dlll lCSdll6A46 49, "NS HS>A~S~
through both houses with scarcely any
opposition. After some disagreement,
a revenue measure was drafted ana
passed. the Governor signing 1t two
days later.
It provides an annual State brewers
license of $500, a wholesalers license
of Sl00 and a retailers license OF 81.
Counties and municipalities are limited
to a $3.50 annual license fee for re-
tailers. A State tax OF cents per
gallon was authorized.
Before adjournment, a tax of S
cents per pound was placed on malt to
discourage making OF home brew.
Endowment Bill Fight.
The big fight of the session centered
about the endowment bill. Straitened
financial condition of the State neces-
STATED the immediate finding Of funds
with which to meet operating costs OF
the State. This. the Governor said
was the major reason for issuing the
call for a special session.
Sale of securities held by the State
school endowment fund would secure
funds which could be reinvested in
State warrants to be met later by reve-
nue. collections Of the State. Strong
opposition developed among school Of
D, "a
Education and leaders of both major
political parties.
Strength of the Governor was indi-
Gated in the fact that he succeeded In
smashing opposition and forcing pas
sage of the program as outlined in the
call. 1t was intimated that If this plan
was not enacted, another session might
be called to revise the entire State
budget for the biennium. Fear OF dras-
tic slashing may or may not have had
something to do with final agreement
on and passage OF the endowment
measure.
idaho is one of the Western State;
in which the c. c. c. reforestatiou
program is most active Idahoans, after
brief feeling of resentment, welcomed
the foresters to the Gem State and
appear generally pleased with results
- 4the pecUam q 6stAs
Evening star., 1933-07-02
NEW MAYOR TAKES
WILMINGTON POST
Gov. Buck of Delaware to
Name Members of Judi
ciary Within Week.

WILMINGTON. Del, July From
several angles July will stand out as
one Of the most important months in
the year as far as Delaware is con-
cerned Today Dr. William H. Speer
took Office as mayor of Wilmington, the
first Democrat to be elected to that
Office for II years. Although he will
have a Republican city council, it is
thought that because OF factional diff
ferences the Democrats will be able to
control that body on important ques-
tions. All the departments of city gov
ernment which are now controlled by
the Republicans will be Democratic be-
fore the term of the mayor expires.
Among them are the departments of
public safety. street ana sewers, water,
parks and health.
Evening star., 1933-07-02
Gigantic Crop Losses From Weather
Bring Dollar Wheat Back to Nation

For the lucky farmer, skyrocketing
of wheat quotations to the highest point
since September. 1880. naturally means
greater profits than for many a year.
But for countless thousands whose
crops have been mostly or totally
destroyed by prolonged heat and
drought the irony of dollar wheat will
only accentuate the misfortune of crop
losses
This years wheat market, traders
and market analysts agree, Is decidedly
a weather market-ccntrolled almost
exciustye1y ~ the WlinAs @ nAku1ee-.s
Evening star., 1933-07-02
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July dollar wheat"
may sound like big news in the head
lines, but it means a combination of
tragedy and good fortune for the Ma
tion's farmers this year.
When those 81 prices returned re-
Gently to glitter in Chicago's wheat
pit they were a long way from being
money in the pockets of every farmer.
The damaging heat which brought
possibility of national crop short
age into the picture is held largely
responsible for the dizzy heights to
which the market ~ clinaheA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-27
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-27
1900 OUT IN CAP
WORKERS STRIKE
Officials Silent On
Week Work Demand

NEW YORK.-Two thousand car
workers went on strike on Tuesday
following the call for a walkout is
sued by the Cloth, Hat, Cap and
Millinery Union.
Workers who expected that this
strike would be struggle for week
work, for which the union members
have voted by two to one in a re-
ferendum a few months ago, were dis
appointed to find that zaritsky and
Herskowitz, the union officials, were
silent on that subject.
Militant rank and file workers,
over the heads of the officials, have
already organized demonstrations. At
the scab shop, the Good Value, at
4th Street, a demonstration of $50
workers, among whom left wing
workers were prominent, was held
Tuesday. This was attacked by the
police, and one worker was arrested,
but an even larger demonstration
followed yesterday, helped by mem
bers of the United Hatters' Union,
with the result that half of the 100
workers in that shop joined the
strikers and promised to picket to-
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-27
WORKERS CODE
PROPOSED BY
TOWBOATMEN

NEW YORK-The rank and file
opposition in the towboatmen's IN
ion has gone into action, following
the Marine Workers Industrial I'm
ion convention at which seven tow
boatmen were present, to organize
the workers on the New York water
ffont for struggle on militant pro-
gram to better the conditions Of
the toWboatmen.
Monthly minimum pay for licensed
section as follows:
Deck mate, $3.50 a month"; engin-
GERS, S225; captains, $235. Yearly
guaranteed income of $500, $2250,
and $3.50 for these three classified
tons respectively.
Wages to be adjusted as prices
rise; 10 per cent raise for all work.
ers getting above minimum; 10 cents
a day minimum food allowance paid
in cash to cooks to trade where they
choose, subject to approval by the
crew; rotary system of hiring I'M
der supervision of rank and file COM
mittee; no blacklisting of workers for
union activity; the right to organ
ize into union of workers own choice,
and the right to strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-27
WHAT'S ON
Thursday

WORKERS SCHOOL SUMMER TERM
opens this week. Registration is accepted
this week for any course before its first
session, at the school office, Room 301,
IS e. 18th st.
Special 20 per cent sale on all books and
pamphlets, now going on in ALL SEC
individual workers and units.
Office workers Union Membership meet
ing. PM, Labor Temple 242 E. 14th st.
Mass meeting of Unorganized Printers to
discuss the Printers Code in Washington
will take place in Irving Plaza, Irving Place
and 18th Street. at 8 D. m.
1.-THE Art Of the Motion Picture" subject
OF lecture by Ben Maddow at the Pen
and Hammer, ia West 2lst st. open Forum
will follow talk.
julius Carstein will lecture 1.-THE New
Deal Contrasted with the Second Five Year
Plan" West Side Meeting House. $50 West
10th st. tnear Broadway. auspices West
Side Branch F.S.U. Admission 10 cents.
Unemployed free.
Typographical Union No. lecture, on
the National Industrial Recovery Act in
the Carpenter Local 1000. 247 E. s4th St,
8 pm Brother Ross will be main speaker.
He will also report on the Conference
Against the Recovery Act.
Friday
zetkin, Stokes Memorial at American
Mass Meeting Of Bookbinders, Organized
and Unorganized to discuss the Bookbind-
ers Code, Manhattan Lyceum, Sc E. 4th st.