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Evening star., 1933-08-13
Blue Eagle Spreads Wings
Over Wide Area of
Northern State
BY KENNETH w. SIMONS.

SpeClal DlSpalCn 70 Inc Otdf
BISMARCK, N. OAK, August "a
North Dakota moved forward rapidly
under the recovery code this week.
Operators of the States largest lig-
mite mines adopted code for that in
dustry with minimum wages and hours.
effective at once The schedule will
mean the same pay for miners with
reduced labor time.
Smaller operators, using less machin-
cry and more help, are to meet soon to
work out a separate code.
In all North Dakota cities enthusi-
astic response to the Presidents code
is reported and the blue eagle Is fly
ing nearly everywhere. Committees
are being appointed in each community
to check up on the manner Of observ-
ance
The State Public Works Committee
organized at Devils Lake and appointed
an engineer to advise it on various
projects. Eight applications for pub
lie works have been formally filed with
the committee. Formal approval OF
the States road program is to be fol.
lowed late this month by letting OF
contracts which will put thousands OF
men to work. The number to be en-
ployed when the program Is well un-
der way is estimated at $4,000.
Evening star., 1933-08-13
Washington Giues
Full Endorsement
To Recovery Act
Seeks to Bring Euery
Business 100 Per Cent
in Line.
BY JAMES DE X. BROWN.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SEATTLE, Wash, August 12.-Car-
rying the Endorsement of all civic Or
CARNATIONS, a Statewide movement Is
now under full swing to bring every
business and industrial activity 100 per
cent under the national recovery act,
and everything else is being held in
abeyance until this drive is over.
In Seattle and other large centers
the program is under the management
of semi-military organizations. Cities
have been districted and Command
ers" have been named to take over the
work in each.
Pledges Sought.
Following house-to-house business
canvasses. attention will be turned
to the homes and house = to house
canvasses will be made to get CON
Sumers" pledges into each and every
one.
Every known means of publicity and
propaganda has been impressed into
service. newspapers, outdoor advertising
and the radio as well as three-minute
speakers at rallies, luncheons and club
sessions.
The NJ. R. A. campaign has been q
great impetus by the announcement
from the State Highway Department
that funds are now available for the
launching of the highway building
program. and call for bids for the first
contracts are now out, pledging a
great Coulee Dam project has started,
and according to word from st. Paul.
the Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific Railways are both considering
building spur lines to the dam site, at
estimated costs of s2,O00,000 each.
These activities, coupled with the N.
r. A. drive, have stimulated business
despite the fact that the month OF
August is usually most quiet in busi-
ness.
Real estate is picking up in the larger
centers. Seattle reports more transac-
tions during July than for the previous
two years for the same month. Strikes
in mills and woods has tended to
dampen the optimism in the lumber
centers. but operators expect that with
the adoption of the lumber code and
the signing of the blanket code, these
| troubles will soon be Strengthened out
and the timber pay roll once more
started
With business and industry devoting
attention to the N. r. A. and civic lead
ers likewise engaged, the campaign for
the repeal of the eighteenth amendment,
temporarily shelved last week, bios
somed out this week in full force. The
Washington State Association for the
Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
launched campaign Monday when 1t
sent out $4,000 pieces Of campaign liter
ature, following this daily with heavy
barrages OF the same type material.
The vets fear that general apathy
on the part of the voters may give .
victory to the dries which in years gone
past have always been most successful
In getting their supporters to the pollA
Evening star., 1933-08-13
NEW YORK SPEEDS
ADOPTION OF CODES
Launches Educational and
Propaganda Campaign Simi-
lar to Liberty Loan Drive.
Continued From First Page.)

total pay rolls per cent. This ex-
tended the gains in this field since a
year ago to 1873 per cent in employ
ment and 21.3 per cent in total wages
paid. Another optimistic report was
issued by Charles A. Harnett, commits
sioner of motor vehicles, who said there
was an increase Of nearly so per cent
in automobile registrations during July
over the CORE :ponding figure the same
month last year.
The political situation In New York
City, which Is interlocked closely with
the economic recovery movement In this
State because of the threatened impoSl-
ton of municipal sales and stock trans
fer taxes, was clarified somewhat when
Republican and independs mt Democratic
leaders came to an accord and named
the leaders of their ticket for the
municipal election this Fall.
La Guardia, Fusion Head.
Fiorello H. La Guardia, former Repre-
sentative and defeated candidate for
mayor four years ago. has been desig-
mated by the fusion forces to run against
Mayor O'Brien. Bernard S. Deutsch,
Independent Democrat, and former pres
ident of the Bronx County Bar Associa-
ton, has been named as anti-Tammany
candidate for president Of the Board Of
Aldermen, and Langdon w. Post, also
an Independent Democrat, will run for
borough president of Manhattan on the
fusion ticket. La Guardia, nominally
Republican, IS Liberal and through
out his political career has been bitterly
opposed to Tammany.
The proposed rise in municipal taxes
undoubtedly will be one of the major
issues of the election, and should the
additional levieS be enacted, 1t Is con-
sidered likely that they would retard
the recovery movement here. However,
opposition to the proposed taxes, which
would double the l per cent sales tax
and raise the stock transfer levy from 4
to cents share, was so well organized
and outspoken at legislative hearing in
Albany several days ago that it is now
doubtful that Tammany will be able to
force through the bill. giving the local
administration power to impose the new
levies. Should the measure fail, Tam
many will be faced with the problem
of providing relief for nearly 100000
families from a depleted treasury.
In testifying at the hearing, Mr..
Whalen, who represented an organiza-
ton of more than 100, 1000 retailers, said
the imposition Of the municipal sales
tax would be equivalent to putting sand
in the carburetor of the machine which
the business men of the country are
trying to put in motion" Allen l..
Lindley, acting president Of the New
York Stock Exchange, and 80 investment
house executives also attended the hear
ing and gave the warning that the pro-
posed new stock transfer taxes would
drive financial business out of New York
and reduce the Nations trading mart to
a place of minor Importance. Some
financial executives even went so far
as to discuss the advisability OF moving
the exchange to New Jersey II the
additional taxes were enacted.
Evening star., 1933-08-13
N. R. A. Program in Wisconsin Strikes
Snag as University Cuts Salaries

than S per cent. This, he said. was
unjust and discriminatory. The salary
reductions at the university are to be
applied under the waiver system, with
the reduced budget considered only as
a temporary expedient for the dura-
ton of the States financial emergency.
President Frank felt warm criticism
from another quarter, too, when AS
semblyman Ray Novotny, Democratic
chairman of the Legislative Finance
Subcommittee on salaries, said the
presidents schedule violated legislative
plans for salary adjustments at the uni
versity. The total in university salaries
Topped of by the cuts is approximately
$3.50, 900, early estimates indicate. It
is understood that President Frank is
preparing reply to his critics.
Outside the public service, however.
the application Of N. r. A. codes and
principles went on apace with en-
couraging results throughout the State.
With pressure already being brought to
bear upon recalcitrants by the State
Recovery Board and the State admin
istrator, thousands of firms are sign
ing up. In Milwaukee, industrial center
of the State, Harry B. Hail. campaign
director, announced early in the week
that approximately 5000 employers
have signed the blanket codes Mil
waukee has been divided into six divis-
ions, which are being canvassed by
members of civic organizations. Over
SO per cent of the employers in the
Milwaukee area to whom the Govern
ment sent blanks have signed and re-
turned them, Mr.. Hall announced, and
acceptances are being received by the
hundreds.
Reports from Fond du Lac, Green
Bay. Oshkosh, Racine, Kenosha, La
Crosse and other towns with consider
able industrial concentration are that
little resistance to the codes is being
manifested. Civic, political and govern
mental leaders have been drafted to
begin speaking tours In behalf OF the
N. r. A. throughout the State. One OF
these speakers, incidently, Is President
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Evening star., 1933-08-13
BY. GEORGE F. FISHER,
Special DISPATCH to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
OMAHA, August 11-Nebraska has
put extraordinary effort in attempting
to coordinate activities under the
blanket code the past week with much
success. The smallest towns have had
their part, but the most comprehensive
work has been done in the cities. In
Omaha 1000 employers have signed
and an organization has been set up
with an arbitrator to investigate de-
linquents. Numerous trade agreements
increasing prices have been effected,
bringing the small operators in gen.
eral up to the schedules of the larger
ones. A warning has been issued
against too speedy price boosts.
Employment has materially increased
Stocks Of goods have been replenished
at low purchasing figures so that when
the anticipated buying starts in earn
est dealers will benefit materially.
The movement is reaching into every
nook Of the business world in Nebraska
Musicians. shoe repair men, cleaners
and dyers, and many other such busi-
nesses have signif1ed willingness to ac-
cept the N. r. A. pledge.
Teachers Hard Hit.
Teachers. however, have been hard
hit, and it will take greater pull than
any SO far applied to help them re-
cover their losses since recent tax re-
duction efforts have been put In force.
Nebraska teachers face a salary reduc-
ton this Fall, according to Herbert
Cushing, deputy State superintendent
of public instruction, Of 10 per cent,
making q 40 per cent cut in the past
two years. About 1000 licensed teach
ers will be out Of jobs this Fall, he
says. Rural teacher salaries will aver
age about $40 to $50 q month.
Applications were made for Home
Owners Loan Corporation relief this
week with mortgage holders reticent
about telling their position on bonds
consent Of mortgage holders, it was ap-
parent the corporation officers have .
hard job Of appraisal and convincing
Evening star., 1933-08-13
IMPETUS IS ADDED
TO NEVADA BUSINESS
Response to N. r. A. Is 100 Per
Cent, According to
Reports.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RENO, New, August 12.-Impetus has
been added to business in Nevada be-
cause Of the national recovery act cam
paign and the response has been 100
per cent SO far as can be ascertained.
Business men are wondering. how
ever, how permanent the recovery will
be. They explain that they realize
Nevada is in peculiar condition as
compared to many other States, its
basic industry being livestock, with
mining now an unknown quantity.
The prices of cattle. sheep and wool
are little higher, but no one is show
ing profit.
Nevada needs, and needs it badly. a
new mining discovery that will equal
that of Tonopah or Goldfield. The
hills are filled with prospectors and
there may be some development in this
direction before another six months
goes by. There are several of the big
mining companies with good sized
treasures, and they are waiting for a
gold find that will warrant their get
ting in. It will have to be the big
companies which develop such a strike.
Another week has gone by and there
seems to have been no progress in the
banking situation.
Evening star., 1933-08-13
DAKOTAS SEE RECOVERY
Federal Road Appropriation
Will Put Many on Job
in South Dakota
BY ALFRED BURKHOLDER.

Special Dispatch to The Star
SIOUX FALLS, S. Oak, August 12.-
With more than $6,0O0,000 assigned
South Dakota from Federal funds for
highway work, the wheels of recovery
under the plans of President Roosevelt
will soon begin to turn in South Da-
kota. With business men of the State
signing up unanimously with the Ma
tional Recovery Administration, many
are being put to work in various Gusi-
ness and industrial establishments, with
the general feeling that the worst OF
the depression is over and that the
future will see general improvement.
The action of the special session OF
the South Dakota Legislature IN en-
acting law authorizing the sale OF 80
beer will do its part toward restoring
normal conditions in the State, for the
funds derived from beer licenses will
be used for relief during the coming
Winter. and thus will save the cities,
towns and counties from the necessity
of bearing the whole burden.
Attorney General Conway estimates
the beer revenue which will come to
South Dakota through the action Of
the Legislature will aggregate about
81 900 900 a year.
Evening star., 1933-08-13
MISSOURI APPEARS
SURE TO VOTE WET
Due to Join Repeal Parade
Saturday-very Little
Interest Shown.
BY GEORGE X. WALLACE.
'pecial Dispatch to The Sta

Special Dispatch to The Star
KANSAS CITY, Mo, August 12-Un-
less there is slipup. Of which there
are no indications at this time, Missouri
one week from today will join the
parade of States favoring repeal of the
eighteenth amendment
Except in few places there has been
an amazing lack of activity in Missouri's
wet and dry campaign. The contest for
repeal has been largely carried for
ward by the Democratic organizations
in Kansas City and st. Louis, with the
Republicans lending material assistance
in the latter big center Of the State.
In the rural districts the Democrats
likewise have carried the chief end of
the campaign, regarding the repeal pro-
posal as party pledge. The drys have
centered their fight against repeal
largely through the churches, argu-
mented by followers of prohibition
organizations, which have refused to
heed direction several weeks ago by
some Of their leaders to not participate.
Evening star., 1933-08-13
Erickson Brings
Good Cheer Talk
OnN.R.A.Progran,
Montana Senator Sees
Everything Pointing
to Success.
BY L. M. THAYER.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HELENA, Mont, August 12.-United
States Senator j. E. Erickson, returning
to Helena from Washington. D. c.,
brought a message of good cheer re-
garding the N. R. A. program. Every
indication, he says, points to success
of the plans of President Roosevelt to
bring the country out of depression.
Senator Erickson. who was two terms
Governor of Montana before going to
the Senate, plans to spend the Summer
in Helena.
Roosevelt a Dynamo.
President Roosevelt, said Senator
Erickson, is "a veritable dynamo, who
has the courage, the frankness and,
above everything, the ability to handle
the job. He has well defined pro-
gram and is merely carrying out his
campaign pledges. When he makes
mistakes he is always frank to admit
it and at the same time is willing to
listen to the other fellow"
Senator Erickson said he found farm
ers very hopeful about the agricul-
tural adjustment act and confident
relief and not merely talk believe"
he continued. their organizations will
cooperate 100 per cent with the ad
miniStration."
Gas tax collections. usually consid
cred a criterion of conditions, showed
encouraging advance for July. 1888.
over July, 1882. They were s374 282 %
this year. as compared to S355,3ll for
July. last year The total for the first
seven months is S1,718.23252 this year.
as compared with - 796557.61 for the
by Phil Greenan, chief clerk of the
Stota R0arH nf EOI1a1iZatiOn
Oiling has started on one Of the
scenic highways of the State, the
Mcdonald Pass route. northwest of
Helena. This is one of the numerous
oiling projects, which will employ a
large force of men in the State. The
Mcdonald Pass highway Is the new
route across the Great Divide OF the
Rocky Mountains, superseding the Priest
Pass road, abandoned last year.
Home Loans Set Up.
E. c. Carruth, State manager Of the
Home Owners Loan Corporation, has
named his State staff and opened his
headquarters in Great Falls. Attorneys
and appraisers for all counties have
BEEN appointed.
A report from the State Department
of Banks announces that dividends paid
to depositors in closed banks, now being
uQuldated Dy agents OF The oePdIt-
ment, totaled $281 ,859.30 during the
fiscal year ended June 80 last. Four
teen banks are SO operated and IA
dividends were paid.
Lewis Penwell, collector of internal
revenue for Montana, states that
Federal taxes collected on beer since
its legalization have totaled $50, TAG. SO
in Montana. This source of revenue Is
, expected to yield increasingly larger
returns as breweries in this State get
in Operation. At present much Of the
beer consumed In Montana Is imported
Evening star., 1933-08-13
BY WILLIAM T. EVJUE.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MADISON, Wis, August 12.-The
N. r. A. program to raise wages and
lower working hours struck snag In
Wisconsin this week with the an
nouncement of drastic salary cuts at
the University of Wisconsin, tradi-
tionally the Badger States fountain
head of liberalism.
President Glenn Frank, famous for
mer editor Of Century Magazine and
now the uniyersity's chief executive, In
formed the press and public that re-
ductions of from II to 22.5 per cent
were to be applied to university salaries,
in conformity with the reduced educa-
tional State budget voted by the re-
Gently adjourned Legislature. This was
a serious blow to Madison merchants,
who depend upon the university pay
roll for much of their sales turnover.
Imminent, too, are general pay cuts for
State Capitol workers, who represent
another sizable section of the towns
buyers. In addition, hundreds OF State
employees throughout the State Will be
affected.
Challenges Declaration.
Although President Frank issued the
announcement Of the university cuts
with statement regretting the neces-
sity of the action, Regent Harold M.
Wilkie, La Toilette appointee to the
university's administrative board, chal-
lenged Franks declaration that the
cuts were to be applied on propor-
tional basis that would treat all salary
classes fairly. He charged that Presi-
dent Frank and his fellow regents had
deliberately applied the gag rule to a
faculty committee which had devoted
long study to the effect Of pay cuts to
the university, and held that the re-
duction schedule would fall most severe
ly upon the instructors and assistants
in the 81 500 or below class.
Regent Wilkie pointed out that where
the $1,500 man must take is per
cent cut, the SIC, ,000-a-year man Is cut
only 1919 per cent, diferential Of less
Evening star., 1933-08-13
Employment Is Increased in Nebraska
As Small Towns Enlist Under Blue Eaale

ahead Of them to effect settlements
in many distress cases. The State
manager, however, said he was conf
dent Of working out effective aid in
hundreds of cases. The States home
mortgage Indebtedness totals $780,
600. 900.
The code on the whole has been well
coined. Business men of all degrees
appear trying to carry it out in the
spirit that actuated it.
Appeal Made to Dern.
While State authorities are awaiting
expiration Of legal periods in which
the Federal expenditures on highway
improvements may be made, advocates
Of river navigation who hope for allo-
cation Of $4,000, 900 for upper Mis-
souri, River channel improvement from
Kansas City to Sioux City, Iowa. ap-
pealed to Secretary of War Dern for
aid when he came through Omaha
Monday. Work on the river will stop
this month unless more money Is set
aside through the Public Works Ad-
minlstration.
Dern told them he is in sympathy
with the movement and believes the
President wants to do these big con-
structive projects that will increase
the permanent wealth of the country"
Representatives of cities along the
river, including Lincoln, and other in
land places, took part in the meeting.
As an example of loss of business
from high freight rates, Nebraska City
business men said that 60 canning
factories in the State are doing almost
nothing now. River boosters contended
water transportation would provide a
SIC, 10000 saving to industry annually
and increase the value of farm products
in the Missouri Valley between $780,
100000 and Sl00,000,0 900 annually.
Works Committee Meets.
The Public Works State Advisory
Committee held its first hearing
Wednesday at Fremont in an effort to
push recommendation Of projects to
afford employment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-05

here twice for speeding" behind spirited
animals.
From boyhood Grant took an interest in
h01Ues, and when he went to West Point he
was only an ordinary student but his equestrian
featS stirred wonderment.
In the Mexican War, according to one &C
count, Grant was called the best horseman
in the Army, when he raced through bullet
swept streets in Monterey riding Indian fash
grip with one foot hung over the saddle, and
one hand clutching the name.
Grant owned his first good harness horse
when he was stationed in Detroit before the
Civil War, paying $500 for speedy PAGER.
In later years he acquired his most famous
trotter right here in Washington.
Coming in from Georgetown behind a pretty
fair animal one day. Grant was surprised when
suddenly butchers delivery wagon breezed
by him. Farther on it stopped, and when
Grant had passed, again went by him in a
cloud Of dust. Grant recognized good horse
when he saw 1t, and noting the name OF the
dealer on the equipage sent friend to sound
him out on the possibility Of buying this
animal. The butcher agreed to take $780,
Grant accepted, and then, with the memory
of his prizes former occupation fresh in mind.
named him Butcher Boy.
One of the occasions on which Grant, who
was President at the time, fell afOul Of the
law was on Florida avenue, which being just
macadamized and was used as race track" by
the driving gentry. A policeman by the name
Of West halted the President, who, it is related,
did not disclose his identity, but allowed him.
self to be taken to the second precinct station
ON Seventh street. There, going up to face the
desk oficer, the President made himself known.
Afterward, the President wrote Vests superiors
commencing him. incidentally, this letter
later helped the policeman to retain his job
at q time when reductions were the order of
the day.
An officer known as "Rarey" Crown, who
likewise was q great horseman, stopped Prest-
dent Grant the other time. On this occasion
he was speeding up through the downtown
district. Again there was good natured settle
ment.
In addition to getting thrill out of driving
his own horses, Grant also enjoyed seeing
others run, and he often attended harness
races, sometimes taking his place In the judges
stand.