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Evening star., 1934-07-27
DROUGHT SC0URGE
UNABATED IN WEST
AS MERCURY FALLS

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as "grotesque" suggestions from the
midwest that the drought may have
been a Divine punishment visited
upon the farmers for destruction or
curtailment OF crops.
Cites Factory Policy.
IF that is true" he said, Il won-
der why the Almighty has not pun
ished the factory owners who through
the years have stopped production
the moment they could no longer
make a profit"
Regarding the increased process
ing of cattle. Secretary Wallace said:
IF the plants are able to process
them at the average rate Of 1000
a week, the job will take six months. i"
The Government has purchased l.
100000 to date, Of which less than
100000 have been shipped to packing
plants. Only 10000 head have been
slaughtered Wallace assured farm
ers that purchasing will begin as soon
as possible after clearing the present
market glut, which caused a sus-
pension of buying earlier in the week.
Thousands of men now on relief
rolls are expected to be put to work
soon harvesting hay on vacant fields
and city lots to Offset some Of the
feed shortage created by the mid
Western drought.
Waste Harvest Considered.
kilograms have gone to State re-
lief administrators from the Federal
Relief Administration asking for a re-
port on the possibility of harvesting
grass and weeds that ordinarily go to
waste.
Ofncials said men on relief rolls
were available to do the work ana
that the forage crop CLEANED would
help TO meet the situation that is
growing more serious each day.
Most Of the feed harvested by re-
lief workers will come from sections
untouched. or affected only slightly,
by the drought Farmers in the
stricken area will need no urging or
help to reap the grass in fence cor
ners. or roadsides.
Illustrative of the severity of the
drought, the Weather Bureau today
pointed to the remarkably low stage
OF the country's rivers.
The bureau said that more rivers
have "shrunk to abnormally low levels
this month than in any other July"
since there were reports on river
stages.
Never before has there been such
a general drying up of streams in
July from the Rocky Mountains to
the crest Of the Appalachians," it
said.
Evening star., 1934-07-27
L|STSEXEMPT|ONS
/. ONBOLN|AN ARMS
State Department Permits
100000 Shipments,
Bans s2,075,OO0.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The State Department announced
today that 81 .20o,o0 worth of war
munitions purchased by Bolivia prior
to May % had been excepted from the
terms Of the presidential proclamation
Of that date which banned shipment
of arms and munitions to Paraguay
and Bolivia.
All other uncompleted contracts
entered into prior to May % for
munitions, totaling in value $2,075, 900.
were held by the department to lie
within the terms of the presidential
ban, and their legal shipment was
refused
The State Department, In announc-
ing its answer today to the Bolivian
note OF June 10. listed the 81 200 900
worth Of munitions as having been
contracted for in good faith prior
to May 28 and declared: an view Of
these facts, it was considered that 1t
would be inequitable to include thesales
of the arms and munitions referred
to above under the prohibitions of
the resolution of Congress, and, there
fore, they have been excepted there
from"
Nine Planes Included.
Munitions excepted included five
airplanes worth $238,000 and spare
parts valued at 500 900 bought from
the Curtiss- Wright Export Corp. of
New York on February IS, $212.625
worth Of ammunition bought on
February Is, $l6s,265 worth Of NOR
tar ammunition, aerial bombs and
hand grenades bought on April IL
and $320.472 worth OF ammunition
and aerial bombs bought April %.
Munitions which win not be al
lowed to be shipped include 5000
aerial bombs and $4,000 rounds OF
ammunition, worth $1,555, 500, bought
ON May IS; 5000 rounds Of ammuni-
ton valued at $97 900. bought on May
23, and four airplanes and airplane
parts worth $500, 900. bought or Feb
ruary Is.
Senator Studies Reply.
Senator Pope, Democrat, Of Idaho
who had written Secretary Hull urg-
ing HIM to rule against shipments OF
arplanes and other war materials to
Bolivia "in strict compliance in spirit
with President Roosevelt's embargo
proclamation" said he wanted TO
study the departments reply TO b.
Iivia before commenting.
Or. Enrique Bordenave, Paraguayan
Minister, who had attacked publicly
the Bolivian effort to secure war ma
terials involved in the disputed con-
tracts, was deeply affected by the
State Department announcement.
THAT Is very bad news for us,
said the envoy, who Immediately
transmitted an account OF the an
nouncement to his government.
Paraguay had no outstanding con-
tracts with American manufacturers
at the time of the arms ban.
The department announced tnat no
further exceptions would be made
after today's action, which supple
ments similar exceptions made in
early June when about $780, 900 worth
Of munitions was permitted TO pro-
ceed to Bolivia.
Evening star., 1934-07-27
FOG STOPS FLIGHT
OF NAVAL PLANES
IL Prepare to Renew Journey to
Alaska Today After Landing
Off Canada.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 27.-
The United States Nays IL big sea-
planes were prepared to hop from
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, today
for Ketchikan or their delayed flight
from Seattle.
Only an hours flying time from
here on their flight from Puget Sound
yesterday, the two squadrons bound
on a 6,500-mile round-trip flight to
Dutch Harbor, Alaska, from San
Diego were forced down by fog at 7:15
o'clock last night at the Canadian
port, a radio message to the tender
Sandpiper here said.
Rear Admiral A. w. Johnson, COM
mander Of the Navy's aircraft base
force, was on one of the planes, max
ing the flight north.
Evening star., 1934-07-27

Mitchell's attack on the report was
encouraged by some of the Air Corps
officers who belong to the impatient
and restless element. AS soon as the
report was circulated in the War De-
partment, before it was made public,
they were in touch with Mitchell and
urging him to take a crack at it. This
he did very promptly, describing it as
lust another whitewash" and 1.-The
greatest exhibition Of ignorance that
ever came out Of the department"
He said the Army chiefs did not
know anything about aviation and did
not want to know anything. The
statement that this country was i'm
mune from attack by air by any feet
which would have to cross the sea was
singled out for especially caustic treat
ment According to Mitchell, an enemy
air force could reach Alaska with
comparative ease and from there
strike terror into this country. He
said force Of enemy planes flying at
a height of $4,000 feet could reach
New York from Alaska without being
heard and with load of nauseating
gas, which one plane alone could carry,
that would be able to cause the evacu-
alton of the city. This is what
Mitchell believes. and the Air Corps
applauds. =
German Danger Less.
Advices received here from Germany
are such as to give Official circles less
concern about the political than the
economic situation there. The threat
to the Hitler regime which gave Der
Fuehrer the filters and led to the
butchery of those suspected Of seeking
10 overthrow him is thought to have
diverted his attention from foreign
enterprises and made him realize he
had enough to do at home for the
present. This lessons the danger to
peace in Europe.
But the economic situation in
Germany is reported to be orotGing
rapidly morse. She cannot obtain
credit SUFFICIENT to carry on ordinary
commercial transactions. Foreign
traders are insisting upon cash
payments. This applies to the
cotton supply. TtDo-thiTdS OF it is
not paid for and is being released
oHty J0T casa.
Crop conditions also are not good.
Drought made short potato crop
and purchases of 100000 marks
worth of potatoes have had to be
made since the first of June.
Crop Situation Bad.
The government, which means
Hitler and his immediate crowd, is in
something Of a pickle because OF this
crop situation. Scarcity puts prices
Of all food products up and the farm
ers benetit, but the millions in the
towns and cities suffer. If the gov
ernment arbitrarily fixes prices at
low figure to please the city dwellers
1t angers the farmers, and if 1t leaves
them high to benefit the farmers it
displeases the city dwellers. And,
since the government assumes to regu-
late everything and has promised
everything, 1t is bound to get blamed
whichever course II takes.
Evening star., 1934-07-27
MARINE CRAFTS TO ELECT.
United States Board Calls on Unions
to Name Arbiters.

United States Board Calls on Unions
to Name Arbiters.
SAN FRANCISCO, July ~ CP).-
An election among Pacific Coast ship
workers to meet cne Of the conditions
proposed by striking longshoremen in
return-to-work negotiations, started
here today.
The election, to determine COL
lective bargaining representives for
the marine workers, was announced
by President Roosevelt's Mediation
Board In response to the longshore-
mems question, What are you going
to do about the seagoing crafts?"
Meanwhile the board resumed con-
ferences with employers to arrange
for immediate Unemployment Of long
shoremen. who have voted to submit
their own grievances to arbitration.
Objections of the dock workers to
going back on Jobs through the en-
ployer- controlled hiring halls and
the status of non-union men who
worked cargo during the strike re-
manned among the problems for the
board to settle.
-0nrr Gr-rarrrxy rrNrcr
Evening star., 1934-07-27
PEACOCK ENTERS
NJ. A. GOLF FINAL
Meets RiegeI, 18-Year-Old
Virginian, for Title
This Afternoon.
BY W. r MeCALLUM.
STAFF Correspondent OF ne star.

HOT SPRINGS. Va, July ~
Playing IL holes Of the match In level
par. Roger S. Peacock. the Maryland
State champion from the Indian
Spring Country Club Of Washington,
this afternoon won his way to the
final round in the Middle Atlantic
golf championship. Peacock. stroking
the ball in his best style, and playing
the finest round Of golf he has had in
three days Of this tournament, beat
Maurice L. Nee of the Columbia
Country Club by and 3.
Peacock met Bobby Riegel OF the
Hermitage Club Of Richmond In the
final round for the title this after
noon over the short Cascades course.
Riegel. l8-year-old young star, whip
ped Chandler Harper. Virginia State
title holder from Portsmouth. on the
twentieth hole in the semi finals,
after being in the lead all the way
from the opening shot.
Peacock Is Favorite.
Riegel is playing in his first big
tournament final and Peacock is the
favorite to win. II Roger wins he will
have cleaned up all the sectional tour
namentS for which he is eligible this
year, for he won his second consecu-
tive Maryland title month ago.
Where the Peacock-Nee semi final
match found Peacock leading all the
way, the Harper Riegel match was a
real thriller Harper made a remark
able last-ditch stand to carry the
match into extra holes, winning the
sixteenth and seventeenth with con-
secutive brides to- square. They
halved the home hole in 4, one above
par, and went on to the first extra
hole. where Riegel sank 25-foot putt
for half. The Richmond youth won
on the twentieth, where Harper ex-
ploded out of a trap across the green
and missed a 6-footer for 5, while
Riegel played safely for the winning D.
Brides Aid Roger.
Peacock was out in 81 against Nee
and was 2 up. He birdied the eley-
enth and twelfth holes in a row to
go 4 up, lost the thirteenth and won
the fourteenth with a par 4, then
blasted out of a trap to halve the
fifteenth and win the match by and
3. Nee was getting into trouble with
his second shots.
z. c. Gott, jr., of Columbia and DR.
B. l.. Taylor of Congressional were
beaten in the second fight and con-
solidation today. Frank M. Williams
of Washington won the third flight.
defeating H. B. McGraw of Hot
Springs, up, in the final round. The
consolidation went to William Alexan-
der Of Washington, who beat George
Shields of Columbia by and /.
Evening star., 1934-07-27
BY the Associated Press.


DANVILLE, KY, July 27.-The "en-
durance contest" between gray haired
Judge Jay W. Harlan Of Danville Po-
lice Court and two young reporters
who have pitted their own ideals
against the dignity of his court con-
tinued today without a sign Of q
let-up.
The reporters, both %, Jack Dur
ham and Wesley Carly, refused last
Saturday at court Of inquiry to say
how they learned in advance that
Representative j. Sterling Towles was
to be hung IN efigy July 10 in the
court house yard for voting for the
State sales tax.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday Judge Harlan reconvened
his court of inquiry and asked the
youngsters again, and each time they
refused. The first day he fined them
$40 each. Next day he gave them
Evening star., 1934-07-27
6WOMEN'SCAMPS.
P|CKEOBYE.E.RA..
One, for District CoIored,
to Be Opened at Highland
Beach, Md.

A school camp for colored women on
the District relief rolh Will be estab-
iished at highland Beach. near An
napoliA, Nd, next month. a. a part
OF a national educational program for
unemployed women. It was announced
today by Corrington Oh, acting Ped
eral relief administrator
Approximately 81 300 has beer al
lotted for this camp at Highland
Beach, which viii have rs resident
students. II will open August Is and
continue TO September rs.
over REGULAR AIlotmentA
The allotment for the camps
In the District and "a States is over
and above the regular allotments for
emergency relief. A similar camp will
be opened al Salem. Va. for so women
on August for a period Of one month.
Some of the corps will enlist white
and some colored women.
Twenty-si1 schools and camps have
been approved In the national pro-
gram while approval for others is
pending. The majority are now oper-
ating and others viii open from time
10 time The terms are for not less
than one month in any individual
camp. and will average two months,
II was said
Plans and budgets were submitted
10 r. Z. r. A. through its educational
division. The schools and camps
are under the immediate supervision
of Miss Hilda Smith, specialist in
workers education.
Miss Smith pointed out that, con-
trary TO reports. these are not woman
C. G. G. camps, but educational CEN
ters. where there is no attempt to
place the woman students at work on
public outdoor projects.
Twenty Eve TO Take Course.
The Is women who will take the
course at Highland Beach, which will
be known as Camp Clarissa Scott,
will be chosen from industrial and
domestic workers on the District re-
lief rolls. Miss Ethel Robson will be
the director Of the camp, 1t was said.
while Miss May o. Hankins of the
District Emergency Relief. will be in
charge Of selecting the students and
attending to other administrative
matters
Students in this Nationwide chain
of camps are chosen by the various
State relief administrations, with the
stipulation that all must be unem-
ployed, eligible for relief and desirous
OF benefiting by such educational pro-
grams. Members OF the stats, with
the exception of the directors, are
also chosen from the unemployed.
The lessons taught in both camps
and schools include vocational train
ing and guidance. domestic science,
English, social science and health
education.
The budget for these centers in
cludes the salary Of teachers as well
as their travelling expenses.
The students range In age from l6
to 35 years and are grouped as nearly
as possible according to age and oc-
cupational BACKGROUND.
Location OF Camps,
Outside of the District, the camps
will be located In Utah, Oklahoma,
Indiana, Wyoming, Idaho, Minnesota,
Ohio. Montana, California, South Da-
kota, Michigan, Maine. New Jersey,
Texas. New York, Pennsylvania, Wis
conkin. New Hampshire, Kentucky
West Virginia; Virginia, North Caro-
LINK. Georgia and South Carolina.
Evening star., 1934-07-27
YORK SITUATION TENSE.

YORK, Pa, July 81 CP)-A tense
ness described as state of seige"
by Burgess Arthur McGuigan grips
Red Lion Borough as State and Fed
eral conciliatorS work TO halt rioting
of striking cigarmakers.
In the wake OF a battle In which
so were hurt and police repulsed by
strikers yesterday, the conciliatorS
conferred until midnight in efforts to
restore peace before State police In
tervention-aSked by McGuigan--be-
comes necessary.
United States Commissioner Of
Cancellation Edward Mcdonald and
P. A Ramsey, conciiiator from the
State Department of Labor. are seek
ing with nine manufacturers for q
common meeting ground for en-
ployers and employees.
Evening star., 1934-07-27

The government is also being forced,
whether 1t wishes or not, to step i'll
in the case of other industries. Indi-
cations are that the next one to be
controlled will be the textile industry,
1t is said the big industrialists, who
have all along backed Hitler and have
used him for their purposes 10 get
control of labor. are beginning to fear
that the government control they in
voked is getting out of hand. Instead
Of being able 10 manage it for their
own benefit, they see it slowly Swal-
lowing them up. so that soon the gov
ernment will have taken over every
thing. This was not what they bar
gained for.
Mark Fiat Held Autocratic.
One of the absurdities of autocratic
government action is the fixing Of
exchange values for the mark accord
ing to the pretense that Germany IS
on the gold standard This is pure
fiction, since the gold coverage is
around 2 per cent yet the worthless
mark is set by fat Of the government
at 80 cents in terms of United States
dollars. With full gold coverage its
value was about "a cents.
Not much business can be done
betpeen the ttDo countries, ercept
by barter, on such terms as that.
American traders mould hardly care
Jor long to buy German goods at
such q disadvantage in exchange.
nor poald they care 10 sell at SQch
q discount, euen il the marx had
cEy backing.
In the light OF the present state
Of affairs, il is almost amusing 10 look
back to 1891. just before the mora
torium was sought and arranged.
Then the whole financial world was
trembling with apprehension and
fright because the German gold re-
serve was about to go below 20 per
cent. II that happened. It was pre-
dicted, the heavens would fall.
Now Germany has virtually no sold
Evening star., 1934-07-27
Will Select Bailifs.

CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Nd, July q
(SpeciaD A special meeting of the
Town Council will be held tonight at
: o'clock at the Fire House, to act on
several recommendations Of Mayor
Thomas J. Luckett for town bailiffs,
Mrs. Irene A Conner. town clerk. an
nounced today. The meeting was orig
inspy scheduled for Monday night.
Evening star., 1934-07-27
PETROLEUM SUPPLY OFF
Stocks Reported at 342 Million
Barrels.

Stocks of domestic and foreign
crude petroleum were reported yes
terday at 342,6ll 900 barrels on july
81, q decrease Of l,576, 900 barrels
from the total estimated week
earlier by the oil administration.
Domestic crude dropped 1866. 900
and foreign crude stocks ss.ooo
barrelS
Evening star., 1934-07-27

IL seems 10
me most un-
likely that the
old-line Repub-
licans can win IN
1896. but II this
should by some
odd chance. hap
pen, they would
be confronted,
barring unlocked
for events, with q
situation m u C h
like the one we
face now. They
would have to
deal with this
. N-NNa x,4
Evening star., 1934-07-27
WALLACE HOLDS
PROGRAM LASTING
Says Farm-Aid Plan Would
Not End With Demo.
Gratis Defeat.

Even II the Democratic administra-
ton Is swept out of ONCE In 1896
which Is most unlikely"-its farm
aid program. or some similar plan.
will have to be continued II disaster
is to be avoided. In the opinion Of
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace.
Although diSclaiming any ability as
q political soothSayer," Wallace. in
an interview with the Associated
Press Yesterday. declared:
Evening star., 1934-07-27
MAN SEIZED ON COAST
ON EMBEZZLING CHARGE
Henry E. Bates, Arrested in Los
Angeles, Said to Be Wanted
HerA
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, July 27.-Henry z.
Bates, said by Federal agents to be
wanted in Washington, D. c., on
charge of embezzling $500 from the
Electro Therapy Products Corp, was
arrested at his home here yesterday.
Bates, who formerly lived in the
1000 block Of Cathedral avenue, left
here last March, taking his wife, Mrs.
Susan NJ. Bates, with him. AT the
offices Of the Electro Therapy Prod
ucts Corp, a medical equipment con-
Germ, it was said he formerly was
general manager, working under
franchise from the New York office.
Evening star., 1934-07-27

reserve. she has refused to pay in
terest on her debts. a small portion
excepted. and she has all but re-
pudiated them. But. In place Of the
wild excitement her condition Gre
ated three years ego. there Is now
comparative calm.
Icopyr.Sht. 1884. ss Paul Manon.r
Evening star., 1934-07-27
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

The earth Is getting hotter.
Ergo, New York and Philadelphia
will be buried under avalanches of
ice and Washington will shiver at
the edge of an ice sheet.
For when the earth gets hotter it
simultaneously gets colder, and there S
no way out of the paradox.
This is a scare story based on some
gratuitous speculation for which no
meteorologist need be held respors-
ible - but nobody need be scared
about it for the next few hundred
thousand years. It arises from the
explanation just advanced by Prof.
G.. c. Simpson, celebrated British
meteorologiSt, of the great ice ages
from which the earth now Is emerg-
ing, and records of the Weather Bu-
reau which show that, for some rea-
son or other, the temperature of North
America Is increasing.
Prof. Simpsons theory is based on
the assumption of long-period varia-
tions in solar radiation. The earth,
of course, gets all its surface heat
from the sun. The more heat poured
upon 1t In the form Of sunshine. one
would assume, the hotter it would get.
But actually, Prof. Simpson points
out, the almost inevitable result Of a
more heated earth Is, at first, the
invasions of the temperate zones by
ice sheets.