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Evening star., 1933-11-25
GOLD PRICE S3276
FOR FOURTH DAY
Dollar Is Stronger Abroad,
With Administration Hold
ing Domestic Quotation.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
With the dollar stronger abroad. the
administration held the price of dornes-
tic gold unchanged today, with the
figure nearly dollar above tine value
Of the metal in London.
A price of S33.76 an ounce was es-
tablished, the same rate as the three
previous days. Meanwhile, the dollar
opened on foreign exchange at s5.Ie to
the pound, at which the London gold
price was s32.s3.
Gov. Eugene Black OF the Federal
Reserve Board denied that his agency
and the Treasury were working at cross
purposes.
He said there was no connection
between the administrations monetary
policy and the Reserve Systems opera
tions in the open bond market For
several weeks the Reserve banks bought
bonds at rate of S35, ,Ooo. 900 a week
The later dropped to $4,000. 600. Last
week purchases were $4,000 900 and
this week the Reserve Boards state
ment showed holdings of Government
bonds s1,000,000 less than the week
before.
There is absolutely no rift between
the Federal Reserve Board and the
Treasury" he said in reply to questions.
He explained that the decrease Of
this week was due to the operation of
repurchase agreement between the
Kansas City Reserve Bank and an aeri-
cultural agency. This. he said. could
not be Interpreted as selling Of bonds
by the Reserve Board.
Since May we have bought 1884,
100000 Of Governments to put excess
funds into the market" he said. Those
purchases, together with our prior pur-
chases. made excess funds of $780,
100000.
These funds were put into the
market to stimulate credit and furnish
ample funds for credit expansion and
in an earnest effort to make money 20
to work"
In the absence of Acting Secretary
Morgenthau, who is at Warm Springs,
Ga, consulting President Roosevelt. off,
clals would make no comment on the
expressed views of Alfred E Smith, de-
nouncing the administration monetary
policy and asserting he was "for gold
dollars as against baloney dollars
Evening star., 1933-11-25
INDUSTRIAL CODES
| STUDIED BY c. Of c.
Two Committees of u. S.
Chamber Seek Means of
SeIf-ReguIation.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
In quest for means by which
industry may govern itself under codes.
members of two committees of business
men met yesterday afternoon in a pri-
vate session at the United States CHAM
Der Of Commerce and took up recon-
mendations Of Gerard Swope, made at
a recent meeting of the Planning and
Advisory Council of the Department of
Commerce.
The Swope plan looks to a permanent
Set.up OF an authoritative body con.
trolled by industry itself A brief state
the meeting was called flor the general
discussion Of the best means of bring
Ing about the greatest Self-regulatlOn
of business under the administration
codes with q minimum of Government
supervision and bureaucracy"
VIII Not Undertake Enforcement.
No statement was made at the close
of the conference on progress made or
upon future studies of the two groups.
The chamber, however, set forth its
own beliefs about codes saying in a
statement:
The representatives of the chamber
made 1t clear that the chamber itself
could not and would not undertake the
enforcement of codes, this being a task
Of the Government, although the feel
ing was expressed that the code author
tiles colud settle large percentage Of
complaints by conciliation without re-
course to Government action.
The chamber believes that each
trade association should set up machin-
cry to adjust as many difficulties as pos
sible by mutual agreement and that
under such a system of self-regulation
few difficulties need to go to enforce
ment by the Government.
Sees Two Distinct Functions.
1.-THE chamber sees two distince func-
tions in the administration of codes.
One Is enforcement. The other con-
templates questions of general policy
connected with code administration and
how best to procure code interpreta-
tions and amendments when needed
THE chamber holds that a deter
mination of general policy probably
would call first, for discussion with
trade associations themselves and some
times by correlated associations. and
that finally certain problems would have
to be considered by some central group"
1t was said authoritatively that the
general aims Of the combined commit
tees would be to seek a plan for inte-
grating industry, to suggest definite pol
icies for N. r. A. and to seek to bal
ance the growing power of labor.
The feeling was expressed by some
executives that N. R. A. policies were
too indefinite and a clearer definition
was needed.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
OLD RUSSIAN EMBASSY
PAPERS ESCAPE DAMAGE
Cigarette Believed Responsible for
Fire in Storage Room of Tenn
porary Building F.

A few dollars damage was caused
yesterday by a fire which broke out In
a storage room for Government papers
in Temporary Building F, on Seventh
street near Constitution avenue. Docu-
ments recently removed from the old
Russian embassy on Sixteenth street
we're stored in another part of the
building and escaped damage from the
flames.
Fire Marshal Calvin G. LAUDER, who
investigated, said the blaze apparently
started from a cigar or cigarette dis
carded by some employe. The papers
damaged we're antiquated United States
Government records, which were about
to be destroyed. LAUDER said.
Records of the Russian embassy un-
der the Kerensky regime were removed
to the building in Army trucks about 10
days ago, just before the President an
nounced formal recognition of the
Soviet government. :.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
RESTORATION OF PAY CUT
GETS ADDED SUPPORT
Three Senators and One House
Member Reply Favorably to
Federation Poll.

Three Senators and one House mem
her lined up today with their congress
sional associates in favoring the restor-
alton Of the pay cut in the poll being
conducted by the American Feoera1lon
of Government Employees.
The Senators favorable are Frazier.
Republican of North Dakota; Smith
of South Carolina and Long Of Loulsl-
ana Democrats. The Representative
is Nesbit. Democrat of Illinois.
senator Keen of New Jersey. Re.
publican, and Representatives Elzey OF
Mississippi and McSTaih OF South
Carolina, Democrats were noncommlt- l.
tai in their replies.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
DIR. JAMES ROBERTSON
GIVEN DEGREE BY G. U.
Director of Nautical Almanac Of
fee of Naval Observatory Made
Doctor of Science.

d.. James Robertson, director OF tne
Nautical Almanac office of the Naval
Observatory, last night was given tbs
degree of doctor of science by George
town University, the Navy Department
said today. .
The degree was conferred upon him
in recognition of his international rep
utation as one of the foremost astro-
nomical mathematicians, the depart
ment asserted.
For many years DR.. Robertson has
been noted for his accuracy in calculat-
ing solar eclipses, the department as
serted, adding that to him more than
any one else is due the credit for the
excellence of the American Epherneris
and Nautical Almanac, which is pre-
pared under his direct supervision at
the Naval Observatory"
Evening star., 1933-11-25
BODY FOUND IN CANAL
Corpse Identified as That of Wei
ford Miller, Meadows, Md.

The body of man found floating In
the Chesapeake e. Ohio Canal near
Twenty-ninth street early this morning
was identified at the Morgue as that
of wexford Miller, So of Meadows, Md.
The identification was made by his
niece. Elizabeth Ashby, 1903 Wisconsin
avenue.
Miller's body, fully clothed, was dis
covered by Charles Zarback, 1900 block
of Third street. The Emergency Hos
pital ambulance and fire rescue squad
were summoned. but the man was pro-
nounced dead on arrival. Acting Cor
oner A. Magruder Macdonald Is expect
ed to announce later today whether
and autopsy will be performed or an
inquest held In the Cease.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
CHEAP AIR TRIPS ORDERED
Government Workers Should Use

Private airlines should be used by
Government employees whenever a trip
can be made cheaper than by Army or
Navy planes. under a ruling by Con-
troIer Gen. McCarl to the Farm Credit
Administration.
In the use of a service plan. McCarl
said, such items of cost as fuel field
fees. storage and travelling expenses of
the pilot should be assessed against
the department engaging the trans
portation, but that it would not be
liable for pilot pay as these officers
draw their regular salaries from the
Army or Navy, as the case may be.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
BODY ASKS GOLD RETURN
Chicago Chamber of Commerce Ex-
ecutiYe Group Wires President.

CHICAGO, November Is (R.-The
Executive Committee Of the Chicago
Association of Commerce yesterday
asked President Roosevelt in telegram
to clear the way for a return to the
gold standard and to fix the value Of
the dollar Immediately.
The committee said re-establishment
Of confidence and national recovery de-
pended upon such action.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
Students Escape Frat Fire.

AMES, Iowa November Is (P-Ten
Iowa State College students were in
jured, one seriously, when they leaped
from second-story windows Of Chi Phi
Fraternity House early today to escape
f-e which wrecked the building.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
ARMY CONTRACTS LET
$17e,75s to Be Spent for Barracks
at West Point.

Contracts involving s17s,756 for the
United States Military Academy at
West Point, N. Y, and $26,080 TOR
Langley Field. Va, from funds allotted
under the public works program, were
awarded yesterday by Q. M. Gen.
Dewitt.
A military police barracks will be
constructed at West Point, while the
work at Langley Field calls for chemi-
cal magazine. bomb-loading magazine
and an ordnance shop.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair and warm
er, with lowest temperature about AZ
degrees, tonight; tomorrow cloudy with
mild temperature, probably light rain:
colder tomorrow night; moderate south
and southwest winds.
Maryland and Virginia-Fair and
warmer tonight; tomorrow cloudy with
mild temperature. probably light rain:
colder tomorrow night and in extreme
west portion in afternoon.
West Virginia-Increasing cloudiness
and warmer tonight, followed by light
rain, beginning in west portion late
tonight or tomorrow and In east por-
ton tomorrow; colder tomorrow and to-
morrow night.
Outlook for November 27 to December 2.
North and Middle Atlantic States
Generally fair weather probable, except
rain over south, and rain or snow over
north portion Wednesday and Thursday
Colder Monday and Monday night:
warmer Wednesday and colder Thurs
day night and Friday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
this morning.
D.ror< Coz r.s<
Evening star., 1933-11-25
HONORED AT HOL YOKE
Miss RastaH of D. c., Among Three

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Miss Mae F. Rastall, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter H. Rastall, 1857 Reno
road is one of three seniors at Mount
Holyoke College elected to Phi Beta
Kappa, it was learned here today. The
announcement was made by President
Mary E. Woolley.
Miss Rastall is a graduate Of Western
High School. During her sophomore
and Junior years she also had attained
scholarship honors at Mount Holyoke.
Evening star., 1933-11-25

Big Wheat Crops.
Mexico expects its wheat crop this
year to be % per cent greater than in
1882
Evening star., 1933-11-25
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
this morning,
Report for Last - Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, so, nocn today; year ago, 81.
Lowest. 80, TOO am. today; year ago,
33.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 100, on June 9; lowest, IA,
on February 9.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. 86 per cent, at TOO am.
today; lowest, As per cent, at noon to-
day.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
HsoodoSic C,,rvovl
Evening star., 1933-11-25
Precipitation.

AutomoblIe lights must be turned Oh
one half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in
the Capital (current month to date:
Evening star., 1933-05-28

ROME. Italy.-The same sort Of people
who circulated the famous slightly
exaggerated" premature reports Of Mark
TWain's death have been busy again
with the poet. Gabriel D'AnnunZiO. For
three weeks the cafes have been buzz
zjnc with absolutely sure" inside in
formation that he was dead News
naner correspondents have kept the
fnIenhone wires to Gardone-where the
poet has his villa-burning with in
quiries. One agency actually sent
report that he was dead.
But 1t will take more than rumors
TO kill D'Annunzio He is too full Of
life. He survived bis first reported
death at the age of 10, and is accus-
toned to such matters by this time.
He is still very much alive.
The burial chamber" he has fitted
out in his villa is still ready. The
grave he himself chose and prepared
still awaits him, lying directly athwart
lae path of anv Teutonic invasion of
s.aly-a pessib lity that seemed more
Skely when he chose the spot than it
hSeS today.
D'AnnunZio lives at Gardone like the
Sovereign power" he sometimes con-
siders himself to be. He has his own
sarmy" with their own uniforms, COM
posed of legionnaires who were with him
at Plume, and even his own navy
1 consisting of one fast motor boat. On
national holidays he has salute OF
2i guns fired on his behalf by felc
piece on the grounds Of the villa.
He receives visitors If they approach
Evening star., 1933-05-28

1t is significant that relatively little
land has been acquired for homestead
ing In East Prussia, just where it has
been pronounced most necessary BY
nationahstically- minded German poll
tlclans, desirouS of seeing a living bull
wark of settlers to prevent infiltration
OF non German (notably Polish) peas
ants into the thinly-settled reaches Of
the Relch's island state"
Thus land acquired in East Prussia
for homesteading has fallen from 92.-
500 acres in 1880 to $500 in 1891 and
only 22,500 last year, despite the cheap
ness Of agricultural land in 1882, so far
as it was available.
Reasons are not far to seek. The
hope for really effective settling of
homesteaders in the extreme east of
Germany has been the utilization of
land now monopolized in improbable
and overindebted junker estates Oafti-
fundia). Had it been possible to ac-
quire this land cheap by permitting
owners to sell in order to satisfy their
delinquent debts and arrears of taxes
the problem of sufficient fit and cheap
land for settlement would have been
solved.
But the so-called East Help" action
has thrown about the insolvent estates
of the region the impenetrable blanket
of debt moratoria-which is, incident
ally, being extended to save for their
owners farms all over Germany.
Hence the estates remain and the
promised homesteading languishes.
President Won Hindenburg's promise to
his armies as field marshal that all
land-hungry veterans would get the
soil they wanted to till Is still far from
fuldIlmeIu.
Evening star., 1933-05-28
China Deals Blow to Japan's Trade
By Demanding Label Oh Goods

but because thousands in the capital
are destitute Japanese cotton and wool
en- goods are now to be dyed black to
hide their identity and distributed to
the needy.
The anti-Japanese boycott in North
China is not as severe as in South or
Central China. Large cases of Japa-
nese goods may be seen being hauled
through the streets OF Tientsin without
molestation. This. Chinese here ex-
plain is due to the fact that living
conditions here are more severe than
in other parts OF China and people are
compelled to buy goods as cheaply as
possible.
Goods Cheap.
Japanese goods. because of the de-
probation of the yen, are the cheapest
goods on the local market, so inexpen-
siye, in fact, as to keep the market
clear of Soviet dumped goods.
In the second place, according to
local Chinese, Northern Chinese are
slower to be swept off their feet by
patriotic appeals and by propaganda,
though they are none the less patriotic
in spite of lacking the fiery tempera-
ment of the South
(Copyright, l933)
Evening star., 1933-05-28
Homesteading Plans in Germany
Are Far From Reaching Goal Desired

BERL1N.-Though it has been a re-
current pledge of each successive gov
ernment OF Germany in recent years
that more families must be settled on
agricultural land, new figures show that
the actual accomplishment has been
moderate. The total area of land home
steaded was less in lca2 than In 1881
the same is true of 80 number of
homesteads involved
Altogether, since the end Oh ,sse war.
some 57,400 homesteads have been
started, many under most difficult con-
ditions. About 80 per cent were less
than five acres each, which is to say
rather garden or spare-time assistance
% per cent were from five to 25 acres
in area and more than As per cent
above that size.
1t Is noteworthy that during the last
couple of years homesteads of more
than 25 acres have predominated. con-
stituting Sc per cent of the total num-
Der started in 1882. It has been pointed
out here with some show of pride that
the total area of the postwar home
steading is greater than that of the
pala atinate. which is, however, a very
small state
The total areas occupied by new
homesteads during the last three years
are as follows: 1880, $4,000 acres; 1881,
282, 500 acres, and 1892. s2,500 acres.
Most important. however. is the pres
ent perceptible decrease in homestead
ing activity by the official agencies
As result, 1888 will have still less to
show along this line Of relieving the
congestion of cities, with their teeming
and hungering unemployed. to make
new more or less self-sustaining farm
ers IN tie open spaces.
Evening star., 1933-05-28
Relief Chief Known
As Persistent Writer

Governors who fail to back up the
Federal unemployment relief program
had best reconcile themselves right of
to sizable increase in their mail from
Washington.
Harry L. Hopkins, the new national
relief administrator, has always been
persistent. and more often than not
persuasive, letter writer Editors OF
New York City newspapers were able to
spot his swift reSolute signature across
the room in no time after he became
executive head of the towns tuber-
culosis and health association.
State editors had the same experience
when he took charge of New York
relief program late in the depression
Past experience makes the fate of the
Nations Governors pretty obvious.
The letters, however, will be only a
spend wisely the $500, 1000, 900 allotted
to him for national relief. He knows
all the ins and outs of budgeting. He
has recently had personal experience
along that line, for when he went to
Washington he had to figure on how
to live on $4,000 a year, as against
the SIS, 900 he had been getting. Such
money as he pays out will be paid care
fully.
His notion is that the States must do
their full share. 1t Is another notion
of his that no program should be in
augurated which viii bring . dole down
upon the country.
Above all, however. he has one dorni-
mating conviction, which probably in
nuenced President Roosevelt largely IN
choosing him for his present post. The
hungry. ne has said over and over, must
Evening star., 1933-05-28

TTENTSIN. China-Al in1portations
into China must bear labels in Chinese
designating the country of origin, &C
cording to an order issued by the execu-
tive branch Of the government at
Marking.
The new regulations require that such
labels be placed in prominent positions
on the packages. be written in Chinese,
and be of durable material. Customs
officers may demand the insertions OF
such labels If they are absent from the
packages and goods will not be allowed
to enter China unless such labels are
shown
Goods without labels may be con-
hscated, as will those whose labels are
fraudulent Six months after promul-
cation the regulations are to come into
effect.
Blow to japanese.
This new order is largely the result
of the anti-Japanese trade boycott and
the feeling that many goods are being
imported with fraudulent labels.
Owing to the severe Winter, Marking
has slightly changed its attitude toward
the disposal of seized japanese goods
IN the past such seizures were burned,
Evening star., 1933-05-28

it no right to pass upon the merits Of
any security. but simply to insist that
whatever its merits, facts essential to
its character are to be disclosed.
The compulsory 2o-day period which
must expire after the information has
heen filed with the commission and be-
fore the securities can be sold is de-
liberately intended to interfere with the
reckless traditions of the last few years
of the securities business. 1t contem-
plates a change from methods of dis
tribution lately in vogue which at
tempted complete sale Of an issue
sometimes within one or at most few
days 1t provides sufficient time before
actual sale may be initiated for thor
ough inspection by the public and thus
Evening star., 1933-05-28

by State securities commissions and in
dependent securities services and ad-
viSers. Furthermore, it is my judgment
that any issue which cannot stand the
test of waiting inspection over 20
days average of economic conditions
but which must be floated within a few
days upon the crest of a possibly ma
nipulated market f1uctuation. is not a
security which deserves protection at
the cost of the public as compared with
other issues which can meet this test
There is no more appropriate function
Of government than that it should en-
courage reasonable saving by protect
ing the fruits of that saving
The statute affects only new offerings
Of securities sold through the use of the
Evening star., 1933-05-28
Poet D'Annunzio Very Much Alive
Although Reports of Death Persist

him as pilgrims, but he never goes to
see other people. Premier Benito
Mussolini himself made the pilgrimage
to Gardone but D'Annunzio never re-
turned the honor Tchitcherin, when
Soviet foreign minister, visited Gardone
and the poet had huge silver plat
ter and heavy sword brought in al
dinner. and explained with every air OF
sincerity that he was obliged to cut his
guests head off and serve 1t up to q
charming lady who had begged the
favor of him.
The burial chamber" which the
poet has prepared has bierlike col
in it. The walls are covered with dust
colored leather There is a legend thai
ne has had portraits painted of the
leading ladies" of his life and thai
these portraits hang in the "buria
chamber
ICopvrirbt 1929
Evening star., 1933-05-28
Maine Not Always a Leader.

From the Lowell Evening Leader.
And thinking Of those disastrous fires,
it is consoling to know that the old
saying that as Maine goes so goes the
Nation Is not always trueA
Evening star., 1933-05-28

An Extended Training Season.
from The Dayton Daily News.
A base ball man says three weeks
Spring practice is enough for any club
but some of the big league teams ar
still pracicing.
Evening star., 1933-05-28

- ENEVA.-How far alcng is the
Disarmament Conference? Just
T what is it actually doing? Is
there any chance Of success?
IF en- how Sn0no