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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
SHOE CROUPSA AWAIT.
MERIT CLAUSE RULE.
Code Differences Fade as
Factions Look for N. R. A.
Decision on Labor.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Differences among boot and shoe
manufacturers over details of the code
of competition, on which public hear
ings closed wednesday, melted rapidly
today as all factions awaited the ad-
ministrations ruling on the "merit"
labor clause.
The shoe manufacturer, prepared to
contend for retention of the merit
clause, which permits employers to hire
and fire without regard to union af-
fiIation, were informed a statement
would be made soon setting forth the
administrations decision on inclusion
of the provision in codes yet to be
promulgated.
Labor Only Issue.
Opposing groups in the industry dis
posed of a number of minor differences
and said the labor clause alone re-
manned as a serious issue.
Labor also hoped to remove inter-
unicn feuds, as a move was launched
by State Representative c. F. Nelson
Pratt of Massachusetts,. Pratt an
nounced last night that President Will
liam Green of the American Fedora
ton of Labor had agreed to call a con-
ference in Boston soon in an attempt
to analgamate five large shoe unions.
A decision was expected soon from
the National Labor Board on the inter-
union dispute in Brockton, Mass,
which resulted in a strike of 1000
workers An agreement was effected
by the board whereby the strikers re-
turned to work pending final de-
cision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
FRENCH SOCIALIST
LEADER Halls N.R.A.
Plan Is Trade Unionizing
U. S. Rapidly, Grandson
of Marx Declares.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.


BY Radio to The Star
PARIS, France, September 15.-Jean
Longuet, French Socialist leader and
grandson of the founder of socialism,
Karl Marx. declares today in the French
Socialist organ, Populaire, that Socialists
everywhere should approve President
Roosevelt's program, because it is
rapidly trade unionizing the United
States.
The American Federation Of Labor,
he declares, has gained more than L.
100000 new members since the admin
istration Of the national recovery act
began.
"Comrade John Philips, head Of the
Pennsylvania declarations, was able in a
single night to sign up 1000 new trade
unioniStS In a district where unions
heretofore were forbidden" he said.
Longuet sees the American develop
ments as a vast battle in which Presi-
dent Roosevelt is waging a war in the
name Of labor as against the ''prodi-
gious economic forces
Two points in President Roosevelt's
campaign, which. Longuet says, So
cialists and Laborites everywhere should
particularly approve, are: first, His
bold action to raise wages" and second,
his remarkable accomplishments in
imposing, even on the most dictatorial
and most backward employers, recogni-
ton Of the trade union movement and
the exclusive right of autonomous work.
ing-class organizations to regulate col
lective contracts with employers in all
industries"
fCopyright 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
SLAYER DENIES MOTHERS PART
IN COURT ROOM POLICE KILLING

guards, dashed into the court and
Scheck fatally wounded Sevick who
tried to stop him. Scheck was wounded
and the pair were overpowered.
Scheck is under death sentence for
the Staying
On cross-examination he testified
Floyd was among visitors to see Grlnd-
hoefer.
He asked me how my case was COM
ing along" he said. I'VE spoke a few
words to each other Then I told him
jokingly to give me his gun. He pulled
the revolver from his pocket and handed
it to me- He warned me not to get
caught with it. I said I wouldn't, be-
cause knew what to do with it."
Mrs. Scheck denied passing the
weapon to Scheck.
She told her story in broken English,
stating she knew nothing of the killing
until she saw headlines of newspaper
Il asked lady to read it to me-" she
said When she got to the part that
John was wounded tainted"
please don't scold me-" she begged
the prosecutor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
%,@7,0D0 IS ADDED
/. TO WORK PROJECTS
II Non-FederaI Building Ven
lures in Nine States
Are Authorized.

by inc hSSOCldteQ fTcSS.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes today
allotted $4.097,o27 for II non-Federal
projects in South Dakota, Georgia, Wis
consin, Massachusetts,, Ohio, Arkansas,
Michigan, Nebraska and Rhode Island.
Green Bay, Wis, received s722,907
and Oshkosh, Wis, s968,OO0 for sewers.
Detroit was allotted 100000 for
street work and $21, 900 for sewers
For school work in Augusta, Ga,
$4,000 was allotted.
Other allotments were: Springfield,
Ohio, $904,364 for sewers; Omaha
Nebr, $500, 256 for water and gas works;
North Kingston, r. l., $4,000 for
water works; Red River Bridge, Ark,
$4,000; Marlboro, Mass, $4,000 for
sewers, and Colome, S. OAK, $25 500
fo- water works.
The administration yesterday allotted
$25, $50 900, including $22.000,000 for
construction of locks and dams on the
upper Mississippi River. The Navy De-
partment was allotted 100000 for
tools, shop equipment and heavy ma
chinery. An allotment of $1.500,000 was
made for construction work in Puerto
Rico. of which 100000 will go for
public roads and highways. An allot-
ment of $4,000 was made for flood
control work on the Rio Grande, near
San Benito Tex
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
STRIKERS BOO" TERMS.
Silk Workers Jeer Report on Wash
ingtOn Meeting.

PATERSON, N j.. September Is
R).-Several thousand silk strikers
tanning the Roseland ball room, today
booed presentation of terms drawn up
in Washington at a truce conference In
an effort to end the silk strike.
The strikers, members of the Ameri-
can Federation of Silk Workers, were
gathered to hear the report OF
their unions general secretary, Frank
SchWeitzer on the Washington meet
ing, which he attended with the Ma
tional Labor Board officials, manufac-
turers and representatives of the United
Textile Workers Union.
Schweitzer was outlining the terms
the strikers will be asked to approve
by vote when the booing broke out.
Union officials said they doubted vote
could be taken today.
Meanwhile in another section OF the
city, the silk manufacturers met In a
closed session to hear the report OF Max
Baker. their representative at the
Washington conference, following which
United States Senator Wagner, as
president of the National Labor Board.
announced that an agreement had been
reached by the manufacturers and sew
eral independent unions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
PIERRE DU POINT BACKS Mr.. H.:
BUT ADVISES MORE PATIENCE

WILMINGTON, Del, SEPTEMBER IS
R.-Pierre du pont, chairman of E. L.
du Point de Nemours g. Co., said yester-
day he was a believer in the N. r. A.
and was hopeful of some good results
from the program.
1.-THE work connected with the N. r. A..
is immense" said du Pont in a letter
to Joseph H. Leib Of South Bend, Ind.
II only fear the human mind cannot
accomplish whatsthe President and his
associates are endeavoring to do. or that
physical strength will fail in the ordeal
More Patience Urged.
IF 1 should be asked to suggest a
betterment of procedure, I should rec
ommend less political insistence and
domineering attitude on the part Of
those who are trying to put over the
work. I can we'll understand they have
become exasperated at the difficulties
before them and it is ungrateful to ask
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
MEDICINAL WHISKY
RISE AR0USES u. S.
Government Puts Disti||ers
ION Mat"-Drug Sales
Seen as Evasion.

Aroused over the fact that distillers
and large distributors are raising the
prices of medicinal whisky and ration
ing small distributors and retailers in
anticipation Of repeal of the eighteenth
amendment, the Federal Government
has had heads Of large distilling con-
Germs ION the mat" here in Washington
during the past week.
But local druggists who handle the
whisky reported the prices have in
creased from $3.50 to $25 a case above
what they were July and liquor deal
ers have warned that further large
price increases are in prospect within
the next few days.
Described as "Porcine."
DR.. James NJ Doran. chief Of the
Bureau of Industrial Alcohol of the
treasury Department, described the at
tltude OF distillers and large distributors
as 'porcine"
They're getting all the market will
stand" he said
the Government is we'll aware of the
practice of drug stores dispensing large
quantities of medicinal liquor on "blan-
ket' prescriptions, which, of course. has
snot up the demand for liquor. This
blanket prescription sale requires no
prescription for the purchaser of the
llquor. the stores securing the pre-
Scrlptions from doctors and then SELL
ing liquor along with the prescription
II is said that as much as a case at a
time is being sold by this method.
Or: Doran described this practice
Whlch has grown up since the bars were
let down on doctors prescriptions, as
Just an evasion of the law that we ex-
pected would occur" The Government
apparently plans to do nothing abou,
II. But the increasing price of legal
liquor has enabled the bootleggers tc
sell 1t cheaper than the drug stores
Bootleggers. in other words. are en-
couraged despite the fact that forth
coming repeal has been represented as
the best way to put them out of bust
ness.
Supplies to Be Augmented.
DR.: Doran believes. however, that the
supply of high-priced medicinal whisky
Will soon be augmented by quantities Of
gin. which is also to be sold under the
medicinal spirits regulations.
Dr. Doran said he has been talking
10 several representatives of distillers
and has roundly criticized them TO,
Fixing the prices of liquor in anticipa.
Iioii VI iepeaI. Ihey nave argued, in
return, that the law of supply and de-
mand has brought about the hiking OF
prices, with many distillers and distrib-
utors unwilling to let 60 large uuan.
Titles OF their product, expecting tc
reap a golden flood of profits when, as
Is confidently expected, repeal comes
early in December and their product
can legally go on the market
They will drive the public right back
70 the bootleggers at that rate. and we
are doing everything we can to avert
Just that" DR.. Doran declared.
Gr. Doran examined and checked as
correct list of prices for brands of
medicinal liquor sold in the Capital on
July l, as compared with the price of
today. The list was given by DR.. Paul
PEARSON, president of the District Drug
glsts' Association, with prices as of
July l, compared with today,s case
prices:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15

them to be more patient, when they are
striving under such great loads.
But believe those who are heavily
burdened would help themselves If their
attitude were made little more toll
Grant and If they would assume that
adherence to the rules would be OBJ
served, without force"
Thinks Repeal Would Help.
Reduction In hours of work, du Pont
said, appealed to him as a proper
remedy, adding:
my personal opinion would not have
led me to curtaii to the extent planned
However, do not consider the 40-hour
week or the 35-hour week, whichever it
may be, an unwise provision. 1t is
only question whether such a radical
step can be put through without killing
everybody In Washington with over
work."
Du Pont said he believed repeal of the
eighteenth amendment would be help
full feature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15

DR.. Pearson declared that only small
quantities are released to small dis
tributors and prices are changing al
most every day. the price changes in
varibly being upward.
DR.. Pearson said he has heard Of
some druggists using the blanket" pre-
scrtption method of disposing of liquor
and condemned the practice He said
that he was convinced. however. that
the more reputable druggists of the
city would not indulge in such prac-
tees but would insist upon bona fide
prescription issued to the actual pur-
chaser of the liquor.
Denies Druggists Blame.
He said druggists have come in for
a great deal Of censure during the past
Few weeks on account of the rising
prices OF prescription whisky. but laid
the blame entirely on the distillers and
large distributors.
Asked what measures are being taken
to meet the anticipated demand for
liquor when and if the eighteenth
amendment is repealed. with domestic
liquor stocks low. Dr.. Doran explained
the situation tersely:
"Rectification. importation. quick
aging and gin"
'Rectification, he explained is the
cutting" of medicinal or bonded whisky
with distilled water and alcohol, keep
ing the proof content intact, but allow
Ing the distiller to get as many as five
barrels of marketable liquor from each
barrel Of the present medicinal whisky
This "quick-aged" liquor will be releas-
ed for sale with the passing of prohibi-
ton, not as bonded whisky, however
but as what 1t is
At the same time the Treasury De-
partment Is making a study of the
feasibility of allowing liquor imports
at a price that would discourage public
patronage of bootleggers.
DR.. Doran said that the Government
meanwhile is licensing new distillery
projects as fast as they meet the neces-
sary requirements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, September 15.-In an eff
fort to save his mother from a murder
conviction, John Scheck, young slayer
of a policeman, yesterday created a
sensation by testifying the weapon he
used had been smuggled to him by
man he knew as Pretty Boy" Floyd.
While he was not asked directly If he
referred to the notorious Oklahoma
bandit and killer, Charles Pretty Boy"
Floyd, Scheck indicated he did.
At the time of the killing OF Police
man John Sevick in Judge Charles P:
Molthrop's court on July a., police OF
the Midwest were securing underworld
haunts for Floyd.
The State charges the mother, Mrs.
Rose Scheck, so, struggled a sawed-oft
revolver to her son in the bull pen OF
the Criminal Courts Building while she
and other relatives and friends visited
him He was awaiting trial with Carl
Grandmother on charges of bank rob-
berry and murder.
Shortly after the relatives left Scheck
and Grundhoefer cowed bailiffs and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
CANADIAN EXPORTS
SHOW AUGUST GAIN
N. R. A. Effect Seen in Advance
as Firms With Dominion Branches
Boost Output.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Ontario, September IS.
With reports causing anticipation of
increased Canadian trade because of the
working Of the national recovery act In
the United States. August figures were
released today showing an increase both
in exports and imports over the CORE
spending month year ago.
The department of national revenue
reported exports last month totaling
s44, 723.252. and year ago, SAL ,314.120
Imports last month were S38, 749 ,562,
and a year ago, s36, 527 1852.
Due to the slowing up in wheat move
ment and in cheese exports, August fig
ures fell off as compared with July,
when the total was S51 ,345, oil.
Reports have been reaching the de-
partment of trade and commerce that
business codes in the United States
would cause improvement of Canadian
export trade with United States firms
having branch factories in Canada
transferring orders to this side of the
border.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
JOHNSON is SURE
COAL CODE WILL BE
FINISHED TONIGHT
Continued From First Page;)

House. but several changes from the
previous administration draft have been
suggested by N. r. A. officials.
They proposed a straight 40-hour
maximum work week instead Of the
36-hour average original included. Ton
mage rather than number Of operators
was suggested as the basis Of member
ship on the National Bituminous Coal
Board and in marketing agencies.
The date for a conference on wage
and hour revisions was changed from
December l to January IS, 1884.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
MIRA. Activities
Coal Code Conferences Con-
tinue, With Agreements
Tonight as Goal.

Today's N. r. A. activities include:
Coal code conferences continue, with
agreement tonight as goal
Work progresses on retail boot and
shoe, moving picture and other codes.
Yesterdays developments:
President Roosevelt at White House
conference with N. R. A. and soft coal
spokesman asked quick agreement on
CODE
Administrator Hugh S. johnson re-
turned from New York to renew coal
negotiations.
Open hearings on movie code con-
cluded. with a series of conferences in
prospect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
Shot Proves Fatal.

George Evans. colored, 40, first block
OF F street, who was shot in the thigh
the night of September while at the
home of neighbor, died in Emergency
Hospital today. He is alleged to have
been shot by another colored man, who
is being sought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
SLAYER PUT TO DEATH
22-Year-old Colored Youth Elec-
trocuted in North Carolina.

RALEIGH. N c., September Is (R.-
Johnnie Lee. %, colored, convicted Of
having murdered Jacob Hill. colored,
for fee of SIS, was electrocuted ut
States Prison today.
Asa Herring of Harnett County was
convicted Of having hired Lee to kin
Hill SO that Herring could collect in
surance which Hill carried in his favor.
Herring received life sentence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
| BODY FOUND, GUN NEARBY
"Only Way Out" Says Note Ad-
dressed to Army Sergeant.

MIAMI, Fla. September is P).-
The body of Dallas R. Thomson, SO.
corporal in the Aviation Division of
the 4th Corps Area at Chapman Field,
was found today in boat house near
the Army field, and Sergt. Char1berlin
said a note addressed to him from
Thomson said lit was the only way
out"
An Army pistol was found near the
bOdy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
ORCHID WORN DAILY

Samuel Untermyer Supplied by
Own Greenhouses.
NEW YORK (R).-Samuel Inter
myer, the man who is trying to help
get the city out of threatened financial
difficulties. wears a fresh orchid in his
buttonhole every day.
Right out of his own greenhouses
too. It's a hobby. He says he has,
among many other kinds, pure white
orchids-which are so rare some peo-
pie didn't believe they existed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
SPECIAL NOTICES.

WANTED-WIRE-H HAIRED FOX TERRIER;
must be male. pedigreed and at least. +
months old; please state markings and price
Address Box 294-B, Star office.
WHEN YOU NEED AN ELECTRICIAN CALL
the Electric, Shop on Wheels. Inc complete
Phones Wisconsin 1921. Columbia 2400.
SPECIAL RETURN-LoAD RATES ON FULL
and part loads to all points within 1000
miles padded vans; guaranteed service; 10
DEL. ASSOC, INC, 1917 N. Y. ave.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
U. S. Trade Up in Palestine.

Palestine has imported so far this
year nearly three times as much of
American goods as it did in the same
period of 1892
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
WORKERS ORDERED BACK.
Settlement Reached in Silk Strike at
Willimantic. Conn.

NEW YORK. September Is P.-
Nine hundred silk mill workers in Will
limantic, Conn, on strike for nine
weeks, were ordered by officials of the
United Textile Workers Union to re-
turn to work Immediately, after set
tlement of differences was reached at
Cancellation hearings held by Miss
Anna Wemstock OF the United States
Department of Labor.
The workers demanded $1.85 for
each 100000 ticks of work. It was un-
derstood the settlement reached calls
for a scale several cents higher than
this figure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15
Millinery Agreement.

CHICAGO, September IS P).-Max
Meyer, National Labor Board member,
acting in a strike of $500 millinery
workers, last night said agreement had
been reached unofficially whereby wages
will be increased and hours made to
conform with Recovery Administration
rulings.
Evening star., 1933-07-12
ASK POLICE TO WITHDRAW.
Sons of Alton Banker Hope to Open
Negotiations With Kidnapers.

ALTON. ILL.,, July IL P).-Hoping
that the kidnapers Of August Luer,
wealthy 77-year- -old banker and meat
packer, might begin their negotiations
today for ransom, members of the Luer
family asked Alton police, county au-
thorities and the State highway patrol
to drop their search for the abductors
and withdraw from the case.
At an early morning conference,
Luer's three sons, Herman F.. William
j. and Carl A., decided that the with
draWal of the police was necessary to
allow the kidnapers an opportunity to
arrange for release of their father.
Mayor Butler of Alton, directing the
police investigation of the abduction,
would not comment on the request OF
the brothers, but it was learned that he
and his associates had reached no de-
cision on the plea of the family. Luer
is subjected to frequent violent heart
attacks, and the request was made by
the sons ON the theory that as long as
the elder Luer is in the hands of the
kidnapers his life is in grave danger
because of his illness.
Luer's sons expressed the hope that
the first communication from the KID
napers would be a note bearing their
fathers signature and few lines OF
his handwriting.
Only by such note would we be
convinced that father is still alive"
Herman Luer said. "Jewelry-a ring
or scarf pin-won't be satisfactory
proofs that the kidnapers have him.
You can take them from dead man."
Evening star., 1933-07-12
PHYSICIAN KIDNAPPED.
St. Paul Man Says He Was Drugged,
Shot and Later Released.

ST. PAUL, July u LP.-Dr. w. H
Hedberg was kidnapped. drugged, shot
and later released by three men. who
had planned to mutilate him last night
he reported to Chief of Police T. E
Dahill today. DR.. E. G.. Engberg was
found in Hedberg's car after it hao
been knocked into a ditch by a train
Engberg is still unconscious.
d.. Engberg was selected to perform
an operation on DR.. Hedberg, but re-
fused, the chief said in a statement.
Then. he asserted, DR.. Engberg was
drugged and placed in the Hedberg au-
tomobile. which was parked on rail-
road right of way where passing train
hit it.
Dr. Engberg was bleeding at the
his ear and bearing other marks of q
struggle was found in ditch a half
mile from where DR.. Engberg was found
in Hedbergs car
DR. Edgberg was bleeding at the
mouth when a train crew found him,
but bore no other signs of injury. He
recovered consciousness today and told
of having been attacked and drugged.
probably with ether, after being lured
from his home by false call.
Dr. Hedberg told a similar story Of
having been lured from his home by a
false call and seized by three men.