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The Washington times., 1933-10-20
HELP PROMISED
BONDHOLDERS
By International News Service

By International News Service
Formation of a volunteer Fed
eral corporation of foreign securi-
ty holders was under way today
as President Roosevelt awaited
the arrival of prominent men
who are to work with the Chief
Executive to protect the Ameri-
can interests of American in
vestors in approximately $2,OOO,-
100000 Of defaulted foreign Sc
curities.
Expected to confer with the
President are Newton D. Baker,
of Ohio; former Gov. Frank o.
Lowden, of Illinois; former Secre-
tary of the Navy Charles F.
Adams. and j. Reuben Clark,
former Ambassador to Mexico.
It is the plan of the President
to have this non-governmental
committee operate without the
jurisdiction of the Federal Trade
Commission in order to avoid
any complications that might re-
suit in diplomatic difficulties.
= The President has foresworn
his privilege of issuing a procla-
nation under the 1888 securities
act and instead expects to ask
this nom Federal board to volun-
teer its services with Federal ap-
proval to conserve the interests
of investors whose foreign securi-
ties are in default.
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a high degree of exactness, we
can furnish this committee with
the information it seeks.
"If we m ust be exact, it
would take several months and
the cost would be great. For
my own firm it probably would
cost $5O,OOO."
Roland Redmond, attorney for
the Stock Exchange. was. called
to the stand to explain the refusal
of Richard Whitney, exchange
president, to send the committees
questionnaire to the exchange
members. Redmond said he held
the exchange had no authority to
require it's members to answer
such questionnaire.
Whitney objected, Redmond
said, to questions calling for the
names Of members "acting exclu-
sively as traders for their own
account" or as floor brokers" ="
He insisted these questions be
changed to call for an estimate
of the number" of brokers so en-
gagged.
Redmond objected to separat-
ing the sheep from the lambs" :"
This was a question calling for
a tabulation of all brokers' custo-
mers living outside of New York
city. He also objected to questions
calling for inforamtion about
syndicates, pools, and joint trad
ing accounts.
Holds Data Irrelevant
Redmond said the information
sought had mo bearing on mar
ket practices" He denied the
Senate had power to compel one
citizen to secure for it's use in
formation from another citizen" "
He added the information sought
was not in the Exchanges pos
session so that the Senate could
not compel the Exchange to get it.
"IS it still your opinion that
the stock exchange should not
send even an amended ques-
tiOnnaire to its membership"
"Yes."
Senator Fletcher CD Of
Florida, committee ch hairma a n,
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
FIRE FIGHT ERS
END TRAINING

Fifty northern Virginia firemen
will be awarded certificates of
graduation at the final exercises
of the fire school conducted by
Chief James M. Duncan, jr., of
Alexandria, tonight in the Armory
Hall.
Leo P. Harlow will be toastmas-
ter at the dinner preceding the
award of the certificates.
Firemen from Arlington, Fair
fax, and Prince Williams counties
and the District Reformatory at
tended the classes.
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
N.D.GUARDSMEN
To ENFORCE
EMBARGO
Troops Await Mobilization
Order as Railroads Defy
Governors Wheat Ban

BISMARCK, N. D., Oct. 20 Il.
N.S0.-All units of the National
Guard today awaited mobilization
orders to enforce the embargo of
Gov. William LANCER against out
State shipments Of wheat, North
Dakota's principal crop.
Adjutant Gen. Earl Sarles or.
dered the State militiamen to be
prepared for mobilization on
three hours notice.
Railroads Defy Edict
Refusal of four railroads to
abide by the governors embargo
order prompted the mobilization
call.
In a statement today, Gov
ernor LANCER concurred with the
move by Farm Holiday Associa-
tion directors proclaiming ma
tional farm strike. The governor
resorted to the embargo in the
face Of steadily lowering wheat
prices which, he said, were
draining the States resources"
Enforcement of the embargo
order rests entirely with the
State militia, Governor LANCER
announced.
To Guard All Bridges
Capt. Thomas McNeese, COM
mander of a Fargo infantry COM
pany, announced plans to patrol
all bridges Oh the Red River to
examine market = bound trucks.
Eastbound freight trains on the
three railroads operating through
Fargo will be forced to sidetrack
cars of wheat, Captain McNeese
said.
The North Dakota National
Guard comprises 1900 officers
and men.
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
GOT
$4,000 FROM
SHIP MEN
His Drive to Beat Limitation
on Magnates' Pay Failed,
Senators Told
By International News Service


Efforts of a $50,000-a-year
lobbyist for the American Steam.
ship Owners Association to defeat
an amendment limiting salaries
of steamship officials operating
with Government money were re-
vealed today at the Senate investi.
cation Of ocean mail contracts.
The witness, Edwin H. Duff,
first denied, but later admitted,
he worked to defeat the amend
ment when it was pending in Con-
gress last spring.
Worked for individuals
He insisted, however, that his
activities at the Capitol against
the amendment were on behalf of
individual shipping magnates
rather than the association.
Duff admitted that in a single
year, 1929, he drew $4,000 as
Washington representative of the
Steamship Owners Association
and gratuitiSs from helf dozen
individual lines. Senator Black
CD of Alabama, the committee
chairman, asked:
Wasn't your income for 1929
$67,OOO?"
81 should say my salary was
$4,000 or $4,000"
Later, he placed his total in
come for the year, derived from
ship operators, at $4,000 to $50
600. He denied that he was "a
lobbyist"
Letter Tells of Work
A letter written by Duff last
June to r. j. Baker, secretary Of
the Steamship Owners Association,
was offered by Black. It de-
clared:
every effort was made to
have the entire salary amend
ment defeated in conference,
but sentiment proved too
strong"
When Black demanded where
Duff obtained inside information
regarding secret conference devel
opmentS on the salary amendment,
the witness first said he probably
obtained it from former Assistant
Postmaster General Glover. Black
said:
"But he had been out Of office
several months"
Duff replied:
"Well, I may have got the tip
from q newspaper man."
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
NRA OFFICIALS
DUBFARN BELT
CR|T|CM|SLED
Resigning Nebraska Chairman
BeIivees 1t Manages All
Recovery, They Say

Accusations flung at the NRA
by the resigned State chairman
of the NRA in Nebraska today
irked officials responsible for the
manner in which most major
and many minor industries have
been blanketed by codes.
They believe the NRA has been
guilty" only of being the most
efficient and skillfully managed
unit of the recovery program.
In statement issued with his
notice of resignation, the Ne
braska NRA chairman. Keith
Neville, said:
'In agricultural States the
NRA, while increasing the cost
of everything the farmer buys,
has failed to increase the cost
Of things he sells"
Point to Other Units
Overworked NRA officials re-
Trained from retorting hotly to
this assertion only with difficulty.
It was pointed out that another
recovery unit, the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration, was
charged with the problem of
making farm prices keep pace
with industrial prices.
Other units also were designed
to assist the AAA in this task.
The Federal Relief Administra-
tion was to go into food pur-
chasing on a large scale. Credit
was to be released from other
agencies for accelerated food con-
sumption purposes.
The AAA already has embarked
on a number of novel expert
ments, such as mass slaughtering
Of pigs and other livestock, to
keep farm products rising in
price.
Misled, They Believe
Neville, a former governor of
Nebraska, in his resignation state
ment levelled most of his criticism
at the NRA, which has succeeded
tc a considerable degree in its
three primary purposes-increas-
ing industrial payrolls, spreading
employment, and setting prices of
processed goods at "fair" levels
for manufacturers.
The general feeling at NRA
headquarters is that Neville and
Governor Bryan of Nebraska, who
supplemented Neville's statement
with further criticism of the NRA,
evidently have been led to believe
by the NRA ballyhoo into believ-
ing that the AAA. the PWA, the
RFC and all other recovery pro-
gram units operate under its
supervision.
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
YOUTHS ADMIT
19AUTO THEFTS

Four youths. arrested Monday
by Policeman J. H. Major of No. S
precinct on a housebreaking
charge and found. upon investiga-
ton, to be responsible for 10 auto
mobile thefts. pleaded guilty to
both charges in Police Court to-
day and were held under $685. 900
bond each for the Grand Jury by
Judge John P. Mcmahon.
The defendants, William Parker,
10; his brother, John, II, both liv-
ing in the 3700 block of Twelfth
Street Northeast; Harvery Fred
erick, 10, of the 1900 block Newton
Street Northeast, and James Fer
rier. 10, of Hyattsville, Md, were
arrested on the complaint of
Julian Hicks for taking a washing
machine from the basement of the
Perry Apartments, of the 1900
block Perry Street Northeast. The
machine was later found aban-
doned in an empty lot.
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
j. 8. MAKES BID
To RUSSIA

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paigns against the Bolsheviks at
the close Of the World War.
SOviets Cooperate
Officials of the Soviet govern
ment have frequently emphasized
that no difficulty was likely to
be encountered in effecting mu-
tual, satisfactory settlement of all
questions in dispute between the
two countries.
Kalinin's reply to President
Roosevelt'S first cablegram is 1n-
derstood to have been extremely
cordial, expressing willingness to
open the negotiations at any time
and any place selected by the
American President.
In consequence, it is understood
on high authority that a Soviet
American conference will be held
in Washington and that Maxim
Litvinoff. Soviet commissar Of
foreign affairs, is prepared to go
himself in the immediate future
as head of a distinguished Soviet
mission.
Litvinoff, accompanied by Pre-
mier Molotov. of the Russian
Soviet republic. War Minister
Clement Voroshilov, and M. Uman-
sky, head of the press section of
the foreign office, will leave for
Turkey in few days as members
of a large Soviet delegation in con-
nection with ceremonies commem-
Grating the tenth anniversary of
the founding of the Turkish re-
public.
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
British Economist
Here for NRA StudH

NEW YORK, Oct. 2O.-Sir Will
liam Beveridge, director Of the
London School of Economics and
Political Service, arrived here to-
day aboard the S. S. Berengaria
en- route to Washington, where he
will visit a month. Sir William
has come to study at first hand
the principles of the NRA and to
obtain personal reactions from
prominent bankers and Statesmen.
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
REP. TRUAX
MORGENTHAU,
WALLACE
Ohio Legislator Calls at White
House; Wants Prices Fixed;
Raps "Book Farmers"
BY International News Service

l., BY International News service
z Emerging from a conference
with President Roosevelt, Repre-
sentative Truax CD of Ohio to-
day predicted the executive was
ready to make a drastic move
to aid the farmer.
-. .c., Truax criticized Secretary of
agriculture Wallace as unfamiliar
with farm problems. He spent
nearly an hour with the Presi-
dent, but refused to state what
he throught Mr.. Roosevelt would
do to alleviate the situation. He
said:
"Mr. Roosevelt has some very
definite ideas about farm prob
lens. / think he is ready to
act to relieve the farmer.
lthink this action will come in
|-the very near future"
Ohio Work q Joke
II Truax charged that the Farm
Credit Administration activities
In Ohio were "a joke"
Truax said he discussed the i'm
pending strike in the Mid West,
but that the President appeared
certain that this would smooth it.
self out. Truax. however, ex-
pressed fear that the strike would
spread to Ohio.
He suggested to the President
that wheat, hog, and cattle prices
he fixed at 81 a bushel for wheat,
10 cents q pound for cattle, and
7.cents a pound for hogs.
He declared the 81 wheat which
resulted from the recent action OF
the Chicago exchange in fixing
prices was the best tonic the
farmers had had in years. He
said:
II am just about convinced
that Wallace and his professors
and book farmers in the Agri-
culture Department don't know
: what it's all about.
~>,> Hits MOrgenthau
- II complained to the Presi-
1 dent that the farm act loan
= under Henry MOrgenthau, jr.,
= is being administered in Ohio
q as a joke.
"The appraisers out there are
~svaluing farm lands at about
n 0ne-third Of what they are
worth. The same old Hoover
Republicans that have been in
charge for years are still active"
Traux added:
.. The Farm Loan Act in my
state is being administered by
-sex-bankerS, ex-cOunty agents,
insurance and dry goods sales
men, dry cleaners and electric
&refrigeratOr salesmen.
ASSAILS APPRAISALS
=. Farmers cannot get jobs as
- appraisers. This is a joke. I
have recommended that the
census figures of 1880 for Ohio
: farm lands be adopted as the
basis for appraisal. This would
value Ohio farmland between
= $50 and 500 an acre. That
would be something like justice.
"The President told me to
advise Henry MOrgenthau Of
these conditions. That / intend
Ito do in no uncertain terms"
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
on the farm, on the basis of cost
of production for both parties"
"a STATES IN CROT1p

ON the farm, on the basis of cost
of production for both parties"
"a STATES IN GROUP
President Milo Reno, who pre-
sided at the session, said the
strike would continue until the
farmer has won prices which
guarantee the cost of production.
Reno said the strike would be
taken up in "a agricultural
States represented by the asso-
citation membership.
Iowa, North and South Dakota,
Wisconsin, and Minnesota were the
States represented st the holiday
meeting.
Association officials claim a
membership of 100000 farmers
throughout the nation.
The plan to exchange farm
products for those of labor repre-
sents a new departure in cooper
ative effort. although the prin-
ciple was advanced by Reno at
the recent Des Moines convention.
Governor Backs It
Informed of the farm strike
vote, Governor LANCER of North
Dakota telegraphed his concur
renee from Bismarck.
Officers Of the holiday associa-
tion at Des Moines likewise con-
CURED in the movement, assert
ing that the strike would help to
increase dairy and grain prices.
Wisconsin delegates approved of
the holiday order.
The association directors openly
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scheduled to begin at noon tomor-
row.
Officers of the association, hav-
ing the assurance of support in
Nebraska, North Dakota, Mime
sofa. and Iowa, as we'll as other
States in the agricultural Middle
West. dispatched copies of the
strike proclamation to State holi-
day groups with instructions to
carry out the holiday order.
Proclaim Demands
Five States were represented at
the secret meeting of directors
which followed the spirit of Gov
ernor William Langer's embargo
on wheat shipments in North Da
kota by drafting the strike call.
The proclamation said:
1--WE have reached the point
where we are fast losing conf
dence in the Administr:t tiOn.
Therefore, we will pay no
taxes or interest until. we have
first cared for our families.
1--WE will pay no interest-bear-
ing debts until we receive the
cost Of production.
1--WE will buy only those COM
modities which complete neces-
sity demands.
we will not sell our products
unless we receive the cost of pro-
ductiOn, but will exchange our
products with labor and the un-
employed for the things we need
The Washington times., 1933-10-20

Farley, all the Democrats
in W a S h i n g t o n that
amount to anything, Gov
ernor Ferguson, and lots
of others were in Fort
Worth yesterday to at
tend the opening of rae
ing and the Anon Carter
dinner.
Twenty or thirty thou
sand people turned out at
a beautiful race track in
a State where the horse
was responsible for MAX
. Texas is full of Demo-
sources. and fn71 of conf
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
Police Say Suspect
Printed OIUn Checks

This initiation talk must have
gone to the head of Frank D.
wilkinson. printer. 900 block H
st. N. w. At any rate he was
Jailed today on a charge of print
ting blank checks and forging
them with assumed names. Wilk-
irfson, in company with William
l.. H. Jones, who is also accused
of forgery, was brought from
Miami today in custody of United
States marshals and lodged in
District Jail ARe}AA,
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
Recovery Program Nears
Crisis, Says La Toilette

DETROIT, Oct. 20 (IN.sD.
The danger point" of President
Roosevelt's recovery program is
approaching. and the buying
power of the farms and in cities
is tagging behind the rise in
prices, Senator Robert M. La Fol-.
'lette of Wisconsin said today,
The Washington times., 1933-10-20

DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL
Accumulated excess Of temperature
since January ]. 1888. 1853.
Deficiency of temperature since
October l. 1898, 2S.
Accumulated excess Of precipitation
since January I. 1898, 1915.
Excess of precipitation since October
l, 1888, 0.97.
TIDE TABLES
Today-High tides, $50 a m. and
1851 p. m. Low tides, 2:5S a. m. and
2:56 p. m.
Tomorrow-High tides $40 a m. and
936 p. m. Low tides, S:44 a, nj. and
3:39 p. m.
THE sun AND MOON
The sun rises today. 6:22 a. m. and
sets 5:2S p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow. S;23 a. m.
and sets 5;22 D. m.
The moon rises today. SOS u. m. and
sets 557 p. m. o..
The moon rises tomorrow 9:24 a. m.
and sets S:4S .. m.
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
200 TOads Entered
For Chicago Derby

CHICAGO, Oct. 20 G.NSO.-
Two hundred horned toads will go
to the post here tomorrow night
in Chicago's first derby of its sort.
Victors in each heat are to COM
pete in the finals.
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
Child, 4, Hurt Badly
. In Fall DOlUp Steps

Frank Allen, 4. is in a serious
condition in Providence Hospital.
the result of falling down a flight
of steps in front of his home in
the 800 block. Kentucky Ave. S. E.,
yesterday. The child was playing
at the time.
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
Farm Strike Laid
To DISCRIMINATION"

DETROIT, Oct. 20 G.N.SO.
The 100000 farmers of the
North Central States have called
a strike for Saturday because they
believe they are Disseminated
against under the NRA, Governor
Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota, said
today.
Governor Olson, in whose State
the strike centers. is here for the
Great Lakes Harbors Association
convention. He said:
agriculture has been Sec
Ondary to industrial adjust
ment, revolt of the farmers is a
fOregOne conclusion"
"It needs no prophet to see
thousands of farmers marching
on the State capitOls Of Mid
west and North Central States.
Their sorry plight has forced
them into line. They are not
Communists. but men whose
cause has been placed in the
background to industrial re-
vival."
Compulsory reduction of
crops and stable price fixing
program are two Of the inn
pOrtant items of readjustment
which the farmer needs today.
He needs a system that would
prohibit sale of crops below
specified figure set by the Sec
retary of Agriculture"
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
Weather Reports

District OF Columbia, partly cloudy.
slightly colder tonight: Saturday partly
cloudy, slowly rising temperature: gentle
to moderate north. shifting to east
winds.
Maryland, partly cloudy. slightly
colder tonight; Saturday partly cloudy.
slowly rising temperature. followed by
noon or at night.
Virginia. partly cloudy tonight and
Saturday. followed by rain Saturday
afternoon in mountains; slightly colder
tonight in north and extreme east por-
tions rising temperature Saturday in
west and north portions
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
STOCK PROBERS DEMAND "BOOM" DATA

operation of the stock exchange.
Apparently we can't get it,"
This led to row with Redmond.
The exchange attorney insisted
he had tried to cooperate.
The Washington times., 1933-10-20

ing it what it is. Texas is full of I
Gratis, full of resources, and full of
dence.
tcopyriEht 1888. by McNauEhs syndcats>
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
WILL ROGERS Snus:

FORT WORTH, Tex, Oct. 2O.-Vice
PRESIDENT Garner, Postmaster General
The Washington times., 1933-10-20
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance. $1,O29, ,129..
437.35; miscellaneous internal rev.
enue, $5,O05, 1854; customs re-
ceipts, $18,669,811.95.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-09-07
MRS. RALPH REITEN HAS
 APPENDIX OPERATION

Mrs. Ralph Reiten entered St.. Anns Hospital this morning and underwent an appendix operation
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-09-07

Richberg's other services to la bor since he came to Washington have not been much advertised, but in view of his standing with the White House, and his present position in the NRA, they are i'm portant.
 Just after his appointment to his present position was anncunc- ed, the railways and their employ es disagreed over a wage increase Richberg not only asked Presiden; Roosevelt to get the case as speed fly as possible into the hands oi Railroad Co-ordinator Eastman but he served notice privately he would not go near his new of flee at the MIRA unless and unti the Government found a solution for the rail dispute.
 He had a far larger part il drawing up the railway compro
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-09-07
WELSH AND SON
 BADLY INJURED AUTO ACCIDENT
Former Juneau Residents Are Victims of Cali
 fornia Crash

Two former Juneau residents H. G. Welsh and his son Vernon c. Welsh, were badly injured re- gently in an auto crash in Cali fornia. Welsh, Senior, former pro- prietor of the Cliff departments, suffered fractured him, broken arm and severe shock. He may never walk again. The son, who is an electrician of Juneau, suf- fered fractured rib. Another son, David Welsh, sustained minor cuts and bruises.
 H. G. Welsh, now a resident of Santa Monica, Cal, and his sons was riding in an auto when it crashed head on with an auto in which were Mrs. Hamilton Evans of Plco, Cal, Dick Evans and Hamilton Evans. She suffered a fractured leg and the other two Evans sustained minor injuries.
 The Welsh family was bound for fishing vacation in Oregon while the Evans family was returning to their home in Pico following an extended tour of the East.
 The accident. particulars oi which were received by M. H Sides, occurred one-half mile south of the Carpinteria airport on the Coast Highway in Northern Cali fornia. ~~ <
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-09-07
NOTICE Tu CREDITORS

in the Matter of the Estate of PETE CHILBERG, Deceased. THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, that Arvid Anderson has this day been appointed Executor, With the Will Annexed, of the Estate of Peter Chilberg, deceased, and this is to give notice that all persons having claims against said Estate should present them in proper form to the undersigned within six months from the date of this notice
 August IT, 1853. f,f
 ARVID ANDERSON,
 Juneau, Alaska. First publication, Aug. 2l, 1883. Last publication, Sept. IA, 1883.
 4af E r .', M A soft maple tree planted near
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-09-07

Equally cratic have besn the evidences as to how the disease spreads. In 193O among 400 cases in France, there was not one record of personal contagion-or spread of the sickness from person to person. But in other epidemics there have been numerous cxan- pies of more than one person in the same family catching the in lection. This suggests but does not prove personal contagion.
 Rather startling was "a history of 28 cases in Germany in 1920. For six of these were nursing sis- ters and two others attending physicians. Lapland had an epi- demic in which from to 45 per cent of the inhabitants of several sticken villages caught the disease.
 Inflilenza Sometimes Precedes
 o Bad T, cases of influenza are known to have preceded fair number of attacks of sleeping sick ness. Likewise, but in lesser num- Der, precursors have been noted in other diseases, particularly in measles, varicelle and smallpox. Occasionally pneumon and whooping cough have preceded the sleeping sickness, and now and then vaccination.