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The Washington times., 1934-03-05

crease in wages and shortening Of
hours.
I am confident that your delib-
erations will lead you also to this
conclusion. Reduction in hours
coupled with decrease in weekly
wages will do no good at all, for
it amounts merely to a forced con-
tribution to unemployment relief
by the class least able to bear it.
have never believed that we
should violently impose flat, ar
bitrary and abrupt changes on the
economic structure but we can
nevertheless work together in ar
irving at a common objective.
The Government cannot forever
continue to absorb the whole bur-
den Of unemployment.
The thing to do now is to get
more people to work.
Your self-governing groups are
not here to devise ingenious
plans to circumvent the pu=-
poses of the act.
You are here in a patriotic
spirit to effect these purposes.
With few exceptions industry
will give wholehearted compli-
ance.
The Laws Failed
It is only in the case of rare
exceptions where industrial elf
government may fail that the
Government itself must and will
under the law move firmly and
promptly to prevent failure.
Under the code tenn ou
and I are aware that experience
must be the guide for the work
ing out of difficulties and lie
prevention of abuses.
For example, you on code Al-
thorities are your n dus tr a
brothers keeper and especially
are you the keeper of your small
industrial brother. We must set up
every safeguard against erasing
the small operator from the eco
nomic scene.
Many years ago antitrust laws
were passed and one of the pri-
mary reasons for their enactment
was for the protection of the
little fellow against the big fel-
low. In many cases these laws
failed to protect the little fellow.
We do not want to maintain
that condition. The essential pro-
visions of the codes should check
or reverse competitive methods
by which the small business man
was or is being squeezed out.
Must Continue
These same antitrust laws must
continue in their major purpose
of retaining competition and pre-
venting monopoly:
It is only where these laws have
prevented the cooperation to elm
mate things like child labor and
sweat shops, starvation wages and
other unfair practices that there
is justification in modifying them.
One more subject I call to your
special attention.
The law itself has provided for
free choice of their own represen-
tatives by employees. Those two
words free choice" mean just
what they say.
Now we are moving into
period of administration when
that which is law must be made
spirit must be fulfilled.
We cannot tolerate actions
which are clearly monopolistic,
which wink at unfair trade prac-
tices, which fail to give labor
free choice of their representa-
tives or which are otherwise hos
tile to the public interest.
In a word, we cannot tolerate
abuses of economic power-abuSes
The Washington times., 1934-03-05
Sun Oil Planning
Increased Stock
By International News Service

A proposal to increase capital
stock, from 100000 common
shares to 100000 shares will
be voted upon by stockholders of
the Sun Oil Company at the an
nual meeting to be held on
Mrach 13.
The company reported net in
come of $6,971,843 for 1888,
equivalent after preferred divi-
dends to $4.O4 on the common.
This compares with $4,198,046 or
1925 per share the year before.
The Washington times., 1934-03-05
| |NSOLVENC|ES
CUT OVER HALF
BY International News Service

by international news service
Insolvencies in February were
the lowest in number and amount
for any month in a long time
past. The racords of Dun and
Bradstreet, Inc, show that for
the month just closed there were
1,049 failures OF business con-
Germs in the United States. Last
year in February there were
2,378 similar defaults recorded
and two years ago 2,732.
The reduction from January
this year, when failures num-
bered 1864 to 1,049 in February,
was 315, equal to a decline Of
23.1 per cent. The reduction
from January, 1888, when failures
numbered 2,919 to February IN
that year, was Sal, or 1875 per
cent. The comparison between
these two months is decidedly in
favor of this years record.
The Washington times., 1934-03-05

Experts Skeptical
The remainder of the permits
were for dwellings ranging from a
$16,500 structure on Linnean Ave
nue. to be built by the William H.
Saunders Company to a $4,000
stone dwelling of one story to be
erected by the owner.
Experts in the field of real es-
tate finance are expressing skep-
ticism at the initial developments
in the building rise.
CONSTRUCTION of hig h-priced
homes, they say, will bring the
building market to its peak toe
soon.
In a number of cases in the past
the purchaser Of the higher-priced
home has been unable financially
to carry the trusts and often has
had difficulty in putting up the
down payment, which, In the
main, have been far too low for
the type of dwelling sold.
On the other hand it is pointed
out that the low-priced home is
usually bought by the steady wage
Garner who has saved a comfort
able sum to make his down pay
ment and still has little left to
buy the stock furniture which he
requires to give him that feeling
Of satisfaction with his purchase,
however humble it might be.
Sticks 1t Out
When hard times come, this
home owner will double up with
relatives in his small home and
together they will stay until it is
paid out.
Convinced that real estate is the
best investment, this man will
then. when good times come again,
place his savings in investment
properties.
In the meantime, according to
these conservative experts, the
man who bought the high-priced
dwelling, has, in a few months
Succumbed to the high interest
and amortization requirements
and has turned his house back
to the builder.
Market Paralyzed
During the last depression many
Of these homes eventually found
themselves in the hands of those
who put up the first trust money
with the attendant result that the
money market for building pur-
poses was paralyzed until these
homes were absorbed.
And no blame can be placed on
the first trust leaders, other than
they were sucked in on the
speculative building boom few
years ago, because they have had
to hold the property at a near
peak price to maintain property
values in the neighborhood where
they frequently held trusts on
other properties.
The weekly business conference
Of the Washington Real Estate
Board will be held tomorrow, but
what with most of the empty
store buildings they discussed
fortnight ago now being occu-
pied by liquor merchants, they
will probably have a dull session.
Messrs. Shannon & Luchs are
now looking into their twenty.
ninth year and this brings to
mind an appropriate wisecrack
of Jimmy Salkeld last week on
their anniversary day.
Mr.. Shannon was asked what
he considered the hardest years
in a real estate firms career.
Mr.. Salkeld chimed in:
"The last three"
The Washington times., 1934-03-05
Atlantic Refining
Profits Bettered

BY International News Service
Atlantic Refining Company's
report for 1888 shows a net
profit of $6,556,377, which in
cludes $1,320,000 nonrecurring
profit from sale of interest in
Union Atlantic Company.
This is equal to $2.46 a capital
share, and compares with a net
profit of $3,918,021, or $1.45 q
share, in 1882.
The Washington times., 1934-03-05
Mead Johnson e Co.
PQys Extra Dividend
BY International News Service

by IhGeFnallOhaI NeWB SeFVIco
Mead Johnson and Company
have declared an extra of IS
cents and the regular quarterly
dividend of IS cents on the COM
mon stock, both payable April /
to stock of record March Is.
Net profit for 1888 was $942,-
266. equal after Z per cent pre-
ferred dividends to $4.99 a COM
mon share, compared with $1,106,-
757, or $500 a common share,
in 1929
The Washington times., 1934-03-05

514. The total
practically dou-
bles that Of the
preceding week.
The $4,000
project of the
Goodyear Tire
and R u b b e r
Company's mas
ter service sta
ton on Con-
necticut Av E.
nue. leads the
list, but is the
only b u sinesS
structure for
which permit
anplicatiOn WAS
The Washington times., 1934-03-05
BUILDING TAKES
HOP, DOUBLES
IN DISTRICT
BY DICK BAKER

Undismayed by rising material
and labor costs, local builders last
week applied for permits for build
ing projects approximately $751;
The Washington times., 1934-03-05

Funeral Directors
The Washington times., 1934-03-05
Experts Skeptical

application was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19

the transportation industry who sud-
denly had nothing to cultivate. can,
process and hsul-except water It
vas also bringing distress to the
cities.
As for water. even in largely urban
St Louis County, Mo, 1000 su-
burbanites and farmers were forced
TO haul water for personal use and
live stock. The average charge was
50 a load when they hired haulers
Many of the smaller municipalities
faced water famine and were already
rationing their limited supply.
Five Die I'm Kansas City.
The sitting heat brought death TO
many people in the cities. Five had
died in Kansas City alone this week
Fear of illness and death had
caused curtailment of city activities.
Stores were doing poor business; It
was too hot to shop, too dangerous
to be out in the sun. Schools were
closed or partially closed. All after
noon classes at the State Teachers
College at Springfield. Mo, we're can
celed today and the morning classes
we're advanced to earlier hours. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19

had been shot. humanity. after O
futile search for water Hundreds OF
others we're to be destroyed. Thou
sands were being moved sluggishly
across burning plains. gsspinE for
breath. In search Of greener pastures.
Hundreds Of carloads we're moving
eastward By Tail. wichita, Kans.,
railroad officials reported.
Pasture Develops Cyanide.
And there were new terrors
Twenty-Five dairy cows Of the herd
Of II. 6. Punk. Lees Summit, Mo,
we're dead an hour after they we're
turned into a fresh pasture. A chem
ist determined that the Sudan grass
in the pasture. drought retarded, had
developed potassium eye hide. Warn
ings went out from farm agents.
Crasshoppers and bugs innumeraole
we're an added scourge
Natures strike had brought real
depression" to the farmers Of the
stricken areas During the money
less years when produce prices were
TOO low TO pay the cost Of shipment
10 market. they managed TO eat well
by canning and preserving meats.
vegetables and fruits and laying up
feed for poultry and live stock. Now
they found themselves. still short OF
cash. with gardens burned, fruit trees
blighted. fields cracking and unpro-
ductive. crops failed.
Wheat and other grains had been.
in many cases. unharvestable. Some
short to be cut by an ordinary mower.
Corn, in cases, tassled at 2 feet high
and stopped It's growth Bins In the
barns we're empty, shelves in the Gel
lars we're unstocked with edibles.
Oklahoma Relief Widens.
Share cropping farmers in Eastern
Oklahoma were reported deserving
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
NATURE ON STRIKE
CR|PPLES MANKIND
Southwest u. S. Paralyzed,
With Crops Stunted,
Streams Dried.
nv ths aneelslsd .prsa.

~ The AssoeiRisd,PYess.
KANSAS CITY. July ip.--General
strike in the Great Southwest ia para
living industry creating want, de-
stroying property and bringing untold
suffering. And mskind is almost
helpless in ia hands Nature seems
to have walked out on mankind.
Vegetation refuses 70 grow. Streams
have stopped running Springs. never
before falling In the memory Of early
eettlers. are dry. Trees. With leaves
biiahted, shriveiinR and falling with
every gust OF furnace-hot air. pro-
duce little OF no shade.
Cattle. starved for proper nourish-
msnt, refuse 10 put on flesh or visibiy
ianguish. Clouds will not form in
the skies. or If they form, refuse to
disgorge any moisture. Soil, turned
10 dust. drifts over once-fertile graz
ing lands, unrestrained by grass roots
that are brittle and crumbling.
Average Maximum 1917.
Only the sun refuses 10 strike, and
ne works overtime, producing almost
unbelievable heat Some idea OF 1t
can be gained from today's announce
ment Of the Topeka, Kans., weather
observer, who said that only twice. In
n DAYS has the temperature tailed
10 reach % degrees, only four times
has IL fallen below 10 degrees at night
And If you consider the last week
alone. the average daily maximum
temperature has been l07 degrees
Temperature maximums in scattered
communities have been ia degrees
often. sometimes as high as III de-
RreeS
The produce truck has been re-
placed on the highways by the water
wagon. There is little produce TO
ship. but farmers are trying feverishly
20 keep stock alive. And many are
failing.
The Kansas City live stock mar
ket has had the greatest cattle run
in its history-animals rushed to the
butcher because they cannot be kept
alive on the pastures. There we're
reports In Oklahoma City today that
600 head OF Western Oklahoma cattle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON. THURSDAY

temperature had passed 100 there
every day this week.
Typhoid dangers were present At
jefferson City, Mo. three cases Of
typhoid were reported in hospitals
and several others out In the county.
The temperature has ranged from
iO4 to Ioa maximum the last seven
days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
THREE CHILDREN KILLED

VIENNA. July 10 Opl.-Three chill
dren we're killed at Mining. near
Braunau. yesterday by the explosion
OF World War artillery shells.
The children found the shells,
dated 1916 and 1917, in the attic of
q hotel and took them to a field to
play.
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their farms and seeking help from
Federal agencies at Fort Smith. ARK.
More than so Oklahoma counties
were added TO Federal drought-relief
areas as the heat continued and the
rains refused to come
It took Just two weeks OF parch-
ing sun for the Kansas corn crop to
drop from IS per cent Of normal 10
80 per cent. which indicated the
shortest crop in IL years. And corn
vas stiII on the way downhin. In one
Kansas county alone announcement
vas made today that farmers had
2.oT0 head Of distressed cattle to sell
to the Government for processing or
shipping elsewhere. There was no
feed. no water. for them.
This merely indicated what was
happening in many other counties in
the far-fiung drought area. The
weather Bureau at Washington. D.
G.. in it's weekly bulletin. said today
that crops and pasture lands we're
stricken in Nebraska. Kansas, Okla
homa, Texas, New Mexico. Arizona.
Eastern Colorado, Eastern wyoming,
Eastern Montana and western North
Dakota-al the plains region, in fact.
from the Missouri River to the
Rockies.
Water situation Critical
In these drought sections" said
the bulletin. nearly all crops. except
cotton in the northwestern portions
of the belt, show steady deterioration,
very rapid in many places, and nu-
merous cultivated crops have been
irreparably damaged . pastures
have dried up and In many places
the water situation is critical"
1t was disaster to the farm country
and 10 all the hired workers in fields
and gardens. in processing and cam
ming factories. in some branches OF
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SESSION PICKS BOSTON
Order Of the Rainbow for Girls
Adjourns at Tacoma, Wash.

TACOMA. Wash, July 10 OF.-
Boston was chosen as the next con-
vention city of the Supreme Assembly.
Order OF the Rainbow for Girls, as
the fve-day international convention
Of the body closed here yesterday.
w. Mark Sexson. McAlester, Okla.
founder and supreme recorder of the
order. announced the appointment of
the following supreme inspectors: Mrs.
Blanche Burlinghame. Providence, r.
l.: Mrs. Grace Chidsey. East Haven,
Conn, and Mrs Efiie Moore. Birming-
ham. Ala. They we're moved up from
Offices OF supreme deputies.
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For reservations, informo-
ton, etc. consult ticket
osents, or ALAN Q. SMITH,
Cenerol Passenger Agent.
6l3-l4th Street. N. w.
District l424
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-07
County Seat Fight
Looms in M'KenZie

Watford City, N. D., May 7.-(R-
Petitions are being circulated in Nc
Kenzie county for q vote at the pri-
mary election on the question Of re-
moving the county seat from Schafer
to some more convenient place"
Schafer has managed to retain the
county seat in three previous removal
movements and the fourth such action
started when q proposal to spend ap-
proximately $1,000 for q further addi-
ton to the old Mckenzie county
court house came before the board Of
county commissioners.
A delegation Of Watford City busi-
ness men asked that action on new
construction be deferred until after
the coming primary election to give
the voters another opportunity to pass
on the question Of removal. and the
board agreed.
A committee consisting Of DR.. p. O.
g. johnson. r. H. Putnam and ]. p.
Christensen, all Of Watford City, was
l;amed to circulate petitions, asking
that the county seat be moved from
Schafer to some other place, each
signer to indicate his preference on
the petition. About 1000 names will
be required to place the issue on the
primary election ballot.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-07
SPEEDY DECISION
ON STOCK MEASURE
Seen IN CONGRESS
Final Action on Much. Disputed
Bill Expected in Senate
by Wednesday

washington, May 7.-(P)-The stock
market control bill and its amend
ments to modify the securities act Of
1888 were thrown open to senate de-
bate Monday, with final action pre-.
dicted by Wednesday.
Only an outbreak Of the silver
question was seen by senate leaders
as likely to upset this program.
Regardless Of the outcome Of q sill
yer conference at the White House
Monday, however, it was tentatively
planned to lay that controversial
issue aside and take up the market
control legislation.
Administration leaders forecast the
stock bill would be approved by an
overwhelming vote In about its pres
ent form. The senate draft differs
somewhat from the measure ap-
proved In the house last week.
They predicted approval. likewise
for the Fletcher amendment to mod
lily the securities act, but conceded
there might be a warm fight to still
further amend that sellers beware
law.
Republican opponents Of the stock
market bill planned to level their
heaviest fire against its corporate
provisions, which they contend will
interfere with economic recovery and
retard business activity.
The bill was assailed and modifi-
cation requested, in q statement Sat
urday night by 28 industrialists list
ing themselves as the national COM
mittee for modification of industrial
sections Of the security exchange act.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-07
High Court Rules
Embargo Is Invalid

Washington. May 7.-(R-The su-
preme court Monday upheld an In
junction restraining Governor William
LANCER and other state officials from
enforcing the North Dakota grain
embargo act pending final decision Is
to its validity.
The embargo law. enacted In lo33.
was aimed to prevent shipments ous
OF the state when the market price
had become confiscatory.
Acting under the statute, LAngee
issued proclamation IN October Pro
hibiting shipments.
The Gran6in Farmers Cooperative
Elevator company and 81 Other CON-
panies and individuals brought suit
IN > three Judge federal court, sitting
At st. Paul, challenging thu emha1oA.
The court granted "A inteE1oclltoy
injunction from which stato ol1lcloSo
appealed to the supreme court.
challenged tho Jurisdiction q tn W
court On the grueand tn Wheo1 r. =.
ments involved were MT 8 iu1 y
Icommeroe ].
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-07
CCC Requirements
On Way to Wishek

Seventy-five young men, replace
ments for the 764th company Of the
civilian conservation corps. departed
Monday morning on 500 Line train
for Wishek. where they will join the
summer camp set up by the parent
company.
The 764th company has been at
Wishek since late in April, according
to Captain George r. Conner, adult
ant at Fort Lincoln, u. S. army post
here where the young men were en-
listed in the CCC.
Requirements will leave Tuesday for
the 794th company at Dunseith and
the 797th company at Watford City,
according to Captain Conner.
This will leave only the headquar-
tiers company OF the CCC at Fort Lin
coin.
The 764th company, now at Wishek,
spent the winter at Lost Corner, Ark.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-07
Il PERSONS DIE IN
A|RPLANE CRASHES
THROUGHOUT NATION
Weekend Mishaps Cause Fa'
taIities in Widely Scatter
ed Parts OF Country
(By the Associated Press,


Weekend airplane wrecks left q
death list of eleven.
A midnight flight at Houston, Tex
carried woman and three men te
their deaths. The bodies of Bob Glyn
81 pilot; Gladys Wood. 20; Fred Bur.
nett, %, and Leroy Grsndy %. were
found at dawn Sunday in the wreck.
age OF private plane mile from the
airport from which they had taker
off at IL p. m. Saturday.
A woman and two men died ir
flames at Fulton, N. Y. airpor,
when their plane fell 300 feet ano
caught fire. The victims were Leor
w. Holly of Fulton, owner and pilo,
Of the plane; Miss Irene Clark. 20, Of
Oswego, N. Y, and John Parsons, 81
CT Fairhaven, N. Y.
Lowell Markwith, 80, Newark flier
and George J. Kuntz. "a, student
pilot, were killed near New Market
N. J., when their ship nose-dived into
marshy field after losing wing in
nlid-air.
Mrs. Arthur johnson, Is, was
drowned in San Francisco Bay when
a plane piloted by Harold Christman
81. dropped into the water. Her hus-
band and Christman were rescued by
a launch.
w. "A. George was injured fatally at
Soda Springs, Idaho, in a takeoft
crash.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-07
Thirst for Liquor
Beats Pre-War DAYS

Washington, May 7.-(R-
Americas thirst for legal hard
likker"-if tax figures tell the
story correctly-has grown up
since pre-prohibition days.
Beer consumption, by the same
token, Is running about SO per
cent behind.
In 1917. the United States
consumption Of whiskey. rum, gin
and brandy was 96,250.000 gal
Ions. The 1916 total was 80. 72O,-
900 gallons while In 1918 there
was . drop to 1880. 900 gallons.
II liquor production taxes are
any indication-and most distil-
leries are running full blast to
I'LL the demand-America Is now
drinking domestic products at the
rate Of 5000, 900 gallons annu-
ally. This does not include i'm
ports which for the first quarter
Of 1884 were 3.64O. 900 gallons.
Continuation Of these rates
throughout the year would rush
distilled spirits consumption above
00.O0O, 900. Officials doubt, how
ever, that the drinking speed Of
early repeal months viii con-
tinue. Further, they say. some Of
the production i being stored for
aging.
One year Of legal beer paid the
government = tl30.647.o0 produc-
ton tax.