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Milford chronicle., 1933-06-23

regular meeting with Mrs. Rob-
ert Hall. Mrs. Walter X. Bar
rett played in the place of Mrs.
c. ID. Abbott,
o.
Miss Lena Short was hostess
to the Wednesday Evening
Bridge Club this week.
81
One could not imagine a more
perfect setting for a luncheon
and party than "Pihewold", the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. George S.
Grier. The daughter, Miss Mar
garet Layton Grier, was the de-
lightful hostess for such an oc-
casion on Saturday when she en-
tertained for Mrs. Gene Pratt, of
New York City. One-thirty was
the time for the luncheon, after
which contract bridge was play
ed. The guests from town were
Mrs. James e. Humes, Mrs. Will
son Vinyard, Mrs. T. Carlisle
Collins, Mrs. Frank R. Grier, and
Miss Sara Grier. The other
guests were Mrs. Charlotte L.
Stauffer and Mrs. Edwin Layton,
of Bridgeville; Mrs. Caroline
Hughes, Miss Elizabeth Mayer,
and Miss Jeanette Frame, of
Dover, and Miss Mamie Grier, of
Salisbury. There was a guest
prize for Mrs. Pratt. Mrs. Humes
won the first prize and the prize
for low score went to Miss May
er.
Milford chronicle., 1933-06-23

| zA241--z.zz4-s1 Il1L you entertain q
IAAW child?" This question
HAWAI- is being put to many
AAE residents in town and
- surrounding vicinity
these days. For the third time
Milford is classed as a friendly
town and it gets its name from
the fact that it provides. vaca-
tion of two weeks for little boy
or girl, who, for the other fifty
is crowded in some small place
in the tenements of New York
City, with no living thing, other
than folks like themselves, to
see or to enjoy. Pitifully true
stories reach the Fresh Air COM
mittees Of the things these chill
dren are forced to endure.
Crowded rooms, unemployment
of parents, under nourishment
and few OF the things that people
in Milford call the necessities of
life. Because of the continued
strained economic conditions
there are more children this
year who will feel that they are
heaven blessed" should there
be a breathing spell in the coun-
try, or in a rural town like ours.
Now! Are you ready for the
question? Will you be one to
phone Mrs. Bayard Wharton, or
any member of her committee,
and tell them that you will take
one of these children as your
guest for two weeks? Or, will
you give them money enough for
week or two weeks keep with
some one who is willing to board
them for that length of time? 1t
will make a happy time for them
and you will have part in it,
should you assist in making
Milford a helpful Friendly
City.
g.
Robert Griffith entertained the
Mems Monday Night Bridge Club
this week. Wilbert Joseph sub
stituted for James P. Pierce.
o.
A pleasant evening for playing
cards was Monday and the
1920" Bridge Club enjoyed their
Evening star., 1933-06-20
al WAY PAY CUT
DELAY SUGGESTED
Eastman Confers With Man.
agement Committee on
2212% Proposal.

By the Associated Press
Railroad management today received
suggestion from administration sources
that proposed wage reductions be post
poned.
Joseph B. Eastman, co-ordinator of
transportation, conferred in an unof1i-
cial capacity this morning with the
Management Committee of the carriers
which is handling a proposal for a per-
manent reduction of 221a per cent in
railroad wages.
At the close of the conference, East
man indicated he had suggested to the
railroad managers that the issue be
postponed.
The course of events" he said, twill
depend on subsequent developments.
We had a most satisfactory confer
ence, and there probably will be more
meetings.
The wage situation was discussed
from the management viewpoint. One
of the questions considered was whether
there should be a postponement of the
issue. At this time no information is
possible as to what will occur"
Eastman, who became co-ordinator of
transportation on Saturday, is under
stood to be representing President
Roosevelt in the negotiations.
w. F. Thiehoff, general manager of
the Burlington Railroad and chairman
of the Management Committee, said
after the meeting the committee will re-
main in Washington until released by
Mr. Eastman"
Eastman meets with the Railway
Labor Executives Association this after
noon to discuss the situation from
labor's viewpoint.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
ROSE PASTOR STOKES
DIES IN GERMANY
Heart Disease Fatal to American
Leader of the Radical
Party.

By the Associated Press.
FRANKFORT-ON THE MAIN. Ger
many, June 20.-Rose Pastor Stokes,
American leader or the Radical party,
died today at the municipal hospital
a heart ailment was given as the i'm
mediate cause Of death. She recently
was operated on for cancer.
The body will be cremated and the
ashes sent TO New York.
Rose Pastor Stokes was throughout
her life champion OF radical causes.
She was often in conflict with the
law and once she was sentenced to
serve 10 years in Leavenworth Peniten-
tiary for obstructing the draft The
sentence was commuted by President
Wilson.
Che was born In Augustova. SuWalk.
Russia, in 1879 Her family, moving to
America. went first to Ohio, but later
settled in New York. At the age of
10 she was rolling tobacco in a New
York cigar factory.
She soon became known as the Rose
of the Ghetto" James Graham Phelps
stokes, millionaire socialist, met her
shortly after he had turned from bank
ing to social betterment work.
She was married to him in 1905 and
divorced in 1925. Throughout the 20
years they were together he stoutly de-
Tended her whenever she collided with
the law, through her numerous arrests
on charges ranging from disorderly con-
duct TO violation of the wartime espion-
age act.
One Of their first activities together
A
Study Society They lectured at many
universities and Mrs. Stokes took active
part In strike agitations and birth con-
l. oil meetings.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
Maj. Brown Is Giving ''Some
Consideration to Retirement
Police Head Is Eligible to
Quit August 26 at His
Own Option.

Maj Ernest w. Brown admitted today
that he had been giving some consider
alton to retiring as superintendent OF
police, but said that he had not given
it any serious consideration" His
statement came in answer to rumors OF
his retirement. He did not, however,
definitely confirm or deny the rumors.
These retirement rumors," he said,
"often spring up during change In
administrations"
Maj. Brown, who has 81 years OF
service on the force, will celebrate his
sixtieth birthday August rs next. This
will make him eligible for retirement at
his own option if he should care to ex-
ercise it. There is at present no COM
pulsory retirement age for members of
the Police Department, the 64-year
limit having been suspended by the
Commissioners.
He could be retired now for physical
disability, but declares that he is in
fine health. Retirement would carry
with it a pension of $4,000 per annum,
besides relief from what is generally
considered one of the most thankless
Jobs in the local government.
Maj. Brown has not yet completed a
Evening star., 1933-06-20
HEAT DEATH TOLL CONTINUES
TO RISE AS MIDWEST Swell TIERS
Temperatures Approach 100 Mark in Many States;
Some Relief in Sight.

drowning. topped the list in the number
Of casualties, Other States reported as
follows: Michigan, six, four by drown
ing: Wisconsin, four. three by drowning
and one due to a broken neck when
a youth dived into shallow water;
Illinois, two, and Ohio, two, one in
Cincinnati when a colored man rolled
of roof while asleep and was killed
Worlds Fair visitors at Chicago both
saw and felt the temperature go to 96
and were warned to prepare for similar
weather today. At Milwaukee it was 95
and Detroit recorded the same reading.
At 96 st. Louis saw no prospects for
relief today and expressed concern over
dying vegetation which has received no
rainfall this month.
But in the Southwest it was hotter
still and they liked it for it came as a
boon to wheat harvesters. Salina, Kans.,
reported a maximum temperature Of
101 degrees.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
TOXIC INSTRUCTS ENVOY
TO PROTEST KILLINGS
Ambassador Ota Likely to Ask
Apology for Deaths of Fish
ermen in Russia.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
TOXIC, June 20-The Japanese
foreign Office instructed Ambassador
Ota in Moscow today to protest Wig
orously the killing of three Japanese
fishermen in Russian waters June IA
The japanese envoy was told in the
telegraphic message to reserve "all
rights in future action" which a
foreign Office spokesman explained in
cluded probable demands for an Of
fetal apology, indemnity and punish
ment for the slayers, who Japanese Of
flcials said they believe may be mem
bers Of the Soviet secret police
The deaths occurred in South
Kronotski Bay. near the Kamchatka
Peninsula, when the fishing boat Fumi
Maru, seeking a water supply, ap-
preached the Kamchatka coast and
sent three men in a rowboat toward
the shore.
Soviet authorities here explained that
disorders had recently occurred in the
Kronotski region and that Russian Of
Hcials possibly were not responsible.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
EXPULSION OF WOMAN
BY SWISS is PROTESTED
Police Refuse Residence Extension
to Secretary of League for
Peace and Freedom.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, June 20.-The women's
International League for Peace and
Freedom announced today that Ameri-
cans and members of other national
sections have made representations to
the Swiss government against the re-
fusal of the Geneva police to renew the
residence permit for Nine. Camille
Drevet, a Frenchwoman and interna-
tional secretary Of the organization.
The reason assigned to the refusal
to renew the permit was that Nine
Brevet's political activities rendered
her presence in Switzerland undesir-
able. A statement said the French
woman, who lectured in the United
States in 1928, has been combating
manufacture of armaments and wrote
a pamphlet in which she declared "let
us first disarm the war profiteer."
Evening star., 1933-06-20
GRAND JURY AT BOSTON
BEGINS GANGLAND PROBE
Inquiry Started Shortly After Six
Men Were Freed in Staying
Cases.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, June 20-Boston's gang
land. its rackets and its crimes, was
presented to grand Jury today for its
consideration. The grand jury is seek
ing the why for the continued exist
ence Of crime and rackets in Boston.
Within the past few days a jury ac-
quilted three alleged gangsters of slay-
ing Charles king" Solomon, a rack
eteer and three other men were freed
because of lack of evidence to link them
with the Staying of Thomas Red" Cur
ran. These incidents, linked with Suf-
folk County's record Of 16 murders
with but one conviction, led to consid-
cradle speculation as to what was be-
hind the calling of the jury.
Witnesses today included John M.
Anderson deputy superintendent of po-
lice and head of the detectives; Lieut..
Stephen j. Gillis, known to be closely
associated with Police Commissioner
Eugene c. Huffman, and Sergt. James
V. Crowley, reputed to be the man
most feared by the city's gangsters.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
STATES ASKED TO PICK
FARM ADMINISTRATORS
President O'Neal of American Bu-
reau Suggests Meetings of
Leaders for Purpose.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, June 20.-Edward A.
ONeal, president of the American Farm
Bureau, today urged State Farm Bureau
leaders to recommend administrators
for the new agricultural adjustment act
He suggested the bureau boards OF
directors meet with State extension serv
ices for this purpose, and urged them
to demand that the act be administered
politically.
O'Neal also recommended that the
Farm Bureau leaders sound out farmers
as to whether they wanted the act to
apply this year.
State and county Farm Bureaus, he
told bureau officers in letter, must see
that the act is administered effectively.
This is the most potent tool ever Gre
ated for reorganizing agriculture on q
sound basis" he declared.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
Another day of scorching tempera-
lures was in prospect for parched re-
gions of the Middle West generally
today, but the weather man promised
relief for some sections with cooling
showers. General relief was predicted
for Wednesday.
Meanwhile the number Of deaths at
tributed either directly or indirectly to
the heat wave continued to mount.
while other reports told of crops that
wilted under the blazing sun as the
mercury scared to the near-l00 degree
mark from Ohio to Nebraska.
Sections promised relief today were
upper Michigan, Northern Wisconsin,
Northwestern Iowa, Eastern South
Dakota and Eastern Nebraska.
Indiana with eight deaths, seven by
Evening star., 1933-06-20
1873 Persons Refuse to Give
Up $1,148,945 Re-
quested by US.
CUMMINGS REVEALED
PLAN SOME TIME AGO
Federal Agents Continue Search
for Metal Known to Have Been
Taken From Banks.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Prosecution Of gold hoarders ap-
peared imminent today after an
nouncement by the Department of JUS
tice that 1873 persons had refused Gov
ernment requests to surrender $1,148,-
945 Of gold and gold certificates.
Agents Of the Department of Justice
have been interviewing hundreds of
persons reported to the Treasury to
have withdrawn gold just before the
banks were closed and all gold was
called in. A great number were found
to have turned in their boards and
many more did so when the drive
began.
Attorney General Cummings some
time ago predicted there would have
to be some prosecution to settle the
issue, but has withheld announcing any
specific plan. Various persons, includ-
ing Senator Borah of Idaho, have chal-
lenged the Governments authority to
require surrender of the metal, claiming
eAAA~o 40 1iAAA Al6CIiACl4G Va
private property rights
Since the President began his drive
last March to force all of the gold of
the country into the Treasury, where
1t could serve as a base for 21a times
as much currency, a total of $780,
O,OOO in gold has been returned On
last Wednesday the Federal Reserve
banks OF the Nation held 1882, ,790, 900.
While exact figures were not avail
able today as to how much gold actual
ly was held in this country, the total
supply was figured at s4,31S,000 900.
In all the Treasury knows the where
abouts of approximately $3,775, ,000, 900
IN gold, leaving approximately s543,-
600, 600 unaccounted for. Some of this.
officials say, has been taken out of
the country and the Department of
Justice agents are busy tracing the
remainder of it.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
TREASURY ACCUMUIATES CASH
TO START RECOVERY PROGRAM
Government Now Has S1,OOS,O99,S 9,S17 Available for
Use in Its General Fund

cluding the new levies in the billion
dollar-tax bill and the beer revenues,
had brought in $71,483,928 for the
month, as compared with 1854, 1856 in
the same period of June a year ago.
Income taxes for the year, however,
were far off the total Of year ago,
having brought in since last July l.,
03,886,077, as compared with $1,013,-
988,221 in the same period Of the pre-
vious year.
Other Treasury operations made up
the huge balance, but despite it the
Government had a deficit of 81, ,699, ,008,-
258 on June II, having collected from
all sources $3.50, ,046, 500 in the year
and having spent s3,689, ,054, ,955.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
AMERICA PRESSING
ECONOMIC PLANS
Seizes Psychological Mo-
ment to Bring Its Propos-
ais Before ParIey.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The American Government has seized
upon the present as the psychological
moment to press its own proposals
upon the World Economic Conference.
Today Raymond Moley, Assistant
Secretary of State and closest Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's advisers, is en- route to
London and Bernard M. Baruch takes
over unofficial but real supervision of
Washington policy. He has no Federal
appointment or salary but from State
Department Office is acting as contact
man between the vacationing President,
the American delegation at London
and the key departmental officials in
the Capital.
These significant shifts were timed
with yesterdays introduction at the
London Conference of an American
currency plan, involving bimetallic
standard by which paper money would
have a 20 per cent gold backing and S
per cent optionally In gold or silver.
Officials here said the proffer of this
program not only attested to United
States willingness to obtain general re-
sumption of fixed money standard.
but also was signal for the confer
ence to get to work earnestly after the
near-crisis Of the past several days.
Rush Act Experienced.
Up to now, the conference has ex-
perienced what Washington regards as
a rush act by the gold standard coun-
tries, France at the helm, to get the
United States nailed down quickly to a
fixed currency basis. This Washington
vetoed fatty. The United States has
other objectives at London which might
get pigeonholed If the first action were
to surrender the unstabilized currency
position which this Government took
voluntarily in the March crisis.
The bimetallic-ba plan, put before
the conference by Senator Pittman Of
Nevada, was drafted here in Washing
ton under President Roosevelt's eye. It
is a marked departure from the old gold
standard, which not only did not admit
silver as currency cover but fixed the
gold backing at 40 per cent. In actual
practice in recent years, the American
currency was backed by as high as 70
per cent gold or more. Other gold
standard currencies have been in pro-
portion.
Extended Negotiating Expected.
A proposal SO far away from Frances
aim was considered sure to bring very
extended negotiating before an actual
agreement could be clinched, thus fit
ting smoothly into President Roosevelt's
refusal to peg the American dollar until
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1933-06-20
Representative ALMON
CRITICALLY ILL AT INN
A1abaman, Who Fought for Muscle
Shoals Measure, Suffers Heart
Attack.

BY the Associated Press.
Edward B. Almon. 73-year -old Demo-
cratic Representative from Alabama,
suffered severe heart attack today
and his condition was described as
critical.
Almon has been confined to his
room at the George Washington Inn
for several days. Attendants said his
physician had advised them that his
recovery was "problematical.
Almon represents the district in
which Wilson Dam is located. He has
been active in the 12-year fight
for Government operation of Muscle
Shoals. The Representative was elected
to the Sixty-fourth Congress and has
served continuously since.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
Conference Is Told That U. S.
Will Not Return to Gold Un-
til 1t Is Sure That Stand
ard Will Work.
FRENCH BLOC ATTEMPTS
TO FORCE STERILIZATION
Americans Greatly Encouraged by
General Acceptance of Monetary
Proposal-Germany, Italy, In
dia, China, Mexico, Ireland Sup
port Suggestion.
~ the Associated Press.

8y the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 20.-Senato1
Key Pittman's monetary resolu-
tion, the main purpose of which is
the rehabilitation of silver, was
the dominant issue before the
World Economic Conference to-
day and received such support
that both Secretary of State
Cordell Hull and the Senator later
declared they were very much en-
couraged.
In connection with the discus
sion of this important resolution,
the American representatives
made two vital points definitely
clear:
That the resolution not only
has the approval of the American
delegation, but meets with the
approval of the President of the
United States"
That the United States Govern
ment will not return to the gold
standard until it is sure that
standard will work.
Warburg Given Floor.
The resolution was before the sub
committee on permanent monetary af-
fairs. There was an interesting de-
velopment when, through the interces-
sion of Senator Pittman, James P.
Warburg, who is advising the Ameri-
cans in technical matters, was granted
the courtesy of speaking from the floor,
although he Is not a member of the
committee.
1t was Mr.. Warburg who told the
committee bluntly that America would
not accept the gold standard again
until certain that 1t was workable.
Mr.. Warburgs declaration presumably
was drawn out by the fact that France
and other gold bloc nations had imme-
diately pounced on one clause of the
Pittman resolution as giving them a
chance to further their drive to force
America to revert to the gold standard
and to stabilize exchange.
This is clause two, which provides
''that gold should be established as
the international measure of exchange
values"
Widely Approved.
ViScount Hailsham of Great Britain
"a government which takes an atti-
tude similar to that of America re-
garding the return to gold-intervened
and asked that this clause be amended
to leave it to each country to determine
time and parity" in connection with
going back to gold
Six countries-Germany Italy, India,
China, Mexico and the Irish Free State
rendered full adherence to the Pitt
man resolution, while numerous others,
including Britain, Brazil, Czechoslo-
vakia, Portugal and Uruguay agreed
on the broad principles
France, through Jean v. Parmentier.
expressed entire accord with the part
OF the resolution calling for stability
in the international monetary field and
with the clause providing for re-estab-
atshment of gold.
France also was ready to study the
silver question but considered other
parts OF the resolution so novel" that
Continued on Page 4, Column -
Evening star., 1933-06-20
KAISER NEAR DEATH
AT GRADE CROSSING
Automobile Caught Between Bars
at Holland Intersection and
Car Is Damaged.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, June 20.-The for
mer German Kaiser had a narrow es-
cape from death while motoring re-
Gently in Holland, it was revealed today.
His automobile was crossing railroad
tracks between Amsterdam and Haar-
lem when the bars were let down
automatically at the moment when
Wilhelm's motor car was on the tracks,
One OF the heavy bars hit the ma
chine, damaging it considerably. The
chauneur was able to move the car
from the tracks only few seconds
before train hurtled past.
The former Kaiser, unhurt, continued
the drive,
Evening star., 1933-06-20
CLARA ZETKIN, NOTED
COMMUNIST, is DEAD
Feminist Leader Succums at Sana-
torium Near Moscow, Dying
in Sleep.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, June 20.-Clara Zetkin,
noted German feminist and Communist.
died Unexpectedly last night at sana-
torium at Archangelskoye, near Mos
COW. In another month she would have
been 76 years old.
Frau Zetkin had been living at
Archangelskoye since June, 1882, with
the exception of a brief trip to Berlin
last year to preside as the eldest men,
Der over the opening of the Reichstag.
Death was peaceful, occurring as she
was asleep. Age was understood to be
the cause. Announcement of the fu-
neral plans is expected tomorrow.
Evening star., 1933-06-20
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Gathering cash to start President
Roosevelt's recovery program, the Treas
ury on June II had amassed $1,008,-
099,817 in its general fund
The huge total reminiscent of war
times, was made possible through the
sale on June Is of $1,083, 100000 Of
Treasury securities from which q bal
ance of nearly $60O,000,000 was left
after maturing debts and other neces-
sary expenses we're paid In addition to
the money derived from the sale, income
taxes had returned $104,281, ,178 for the
month, only $4,000, 900 less than in the
same month year ago.
MiscellaneoYS internal revenue, IN
Evening star., 1933-06-20
BOTH SIDES OPTIMISTIC.
Outcome in New Hampshire Declared
Uncertain.

CONCORD, N. H., June 20 R-
Leaders of both New Hampshire's dry
and wet factions forecast victories
today.
The wet faction believed the over
whelming repeal vote in neighboring
Massachusetts, last week would influence
the Granite State in their favor.
The State liquor law was enacted in
1917 and two years later the prohibi-
ton amendment was ratified by a vote
of 19 to in the Senate and 222 to 131
in the House. The liquor law was
amended recently to permit the sale of
30 per cent beer and wine. The 80
bill went through the House by 288-
to-88 vote and the "a Senators approved
it unanimously. The Legislature also
passed law permitting sale OF per
cent beer and wine in event of the re-
peal Of the eighteenth amendment. The
per cent bill was still awaiting Gov.
Winant's signature.
Polls were to be open from 8 am to
7 pm, Eastern standard time.