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Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-06
FLETCHER NAMED CHAIRMAN OF
G. @. P. NATIONAL COMMITTEE
Internal Squabble Of Republican Leaders
Squelched By Choice Of Former Member
Of Rough Riders

CHICAGO, June 6. U.P)-Henry
P. Fletcher Of Pennsylvania was
elected chairman of the Republican
national committee today as the
party drew into battle line the
guns it plans to use in next year IS
congressional election.
Fletcher's election was unani-
nous at the suggestion of John D.
M. Hamilton of Kansas, the only
other nominee.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-06
MEET WITH STATE BOARD

Members of the local office of
the state board of equalization,
Mark M. Munson, Harry Koehler,
Harley Doll, Jack MattoX and
Charles E. Farrell, were called to
San Diego Tuesday to meet with
H. G.. Cattell and Fred E. Stewart,
members of the state board.
Cattell is the member represent
ing this district.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-06
By EVERETT HOLES
United Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, June 6. U.P)-Chok-
ing off sectional fight between
the east and west with a battlecry
of "Not a new deal but square
DEAL" the Republican national
committee today worked out a COM
promise which virtually assured
election of Henry P. Fletcher as
national chairman.
Election of Fletcher, a Rough
Rider under Teddy Roosevelt and
diplomat with service in three for
eign countries, appeared certain
after a series of overnight caucuseS
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-06
AW
WXX QOGE:RS
W 'says:

HOLLYWOOD, June S. (Spe-
caldwell, America was fin
ally notified "diplomatically"
that England wouldn't pay the
debt. That's what practically
all the people in both nations
knew all the time. But, even
though a diplomat is the last
person to find anything cut, 1
knew the news would finally
leak out to 'em. The news hit
us like the news that Babe Ruth
bats left-handed. But was we
down-hearted? No, sir. On
that very day congress voted
seven billions so our own credit
is all right. From now on we
will do all our borrowing and
loaning on the home grounds.
Yours,
M<& Ro7e%~
@iss4.. 4..RsNsuzht Syndicate. laa
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-06

At New York RH F
Boston 900 900 020- 2 10 2
New York 500 100 00X- 6 Z !
Belts. H. Smith, Mangum, Picker
el and Hogan, Spohrer; Hubbell
and MancuSo.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-06
National League

Beck, Carroll, Lucas, Munns and
Lopez, Berres; Collins, Johnson and
j. Wilson.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-06
Baseball Scores
American league

MuTpIIty anu JUTBtIlS, IIUFt, II
Johnson and Ferrell, Hinkle.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-06

Mahaffey & Berry; Thomas and
Berg.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
Soviet Industries
Outputs Revealed

MOSCOW CP).-Here- Is a glimpse
at the daily output of Soviet industries
as they are operating at the end
Of 1894:
Tractor factories producing 31s
tractors.
Blast furnaces making over 10000
tons Of pig iron and open-hearth
furnaces yielding more than $1,000
tons of steel.
Automobile factories turning out 1874
trucks and As passenger cars.
Footwear industries making 132, 600
pairs boots and shoes.
Textile mills producing 13,500,000
yards Of cloth.
Mines yielding 250,000 tons of coal.
Knitting factories producing $4,000
pairs Of stockings and socks.
Regional electric power stations
producing $4,000, -kilowatt houx
Evening star., 1934-12-30
Through Ups and Downs.

Office, and in 1882 was selected, with
minister, for service as chairman Of
the Saar Commission.
Although inside the area itself the
wearing of political uniforms has been
prohibited and more stringent regula-
tions have been applied to public meet
ings and newspaper polemics, there
has been a good deal of under-cover
violence and some open cases of it..
The Saar has been Systematically
deluged with radio propaganda from
Germany. Monster meetings. to which
the Saarlanders have been invited,
have been held by the Nazis Just across
the border.
Inside the Saar the various pam
German parties have now been merged
into the ''Deutsche Front" The So
cial Democrats and Marxists assert
that this body has already marked
down for persecution those who are
its opponents. But the German gov
ernment this Summer gave its word
to the league that there should be no
victimization after the poll.
Early this month the diplomatic
tension created by the impending plebi-
scite was noticeably relieved by two
developments. A tentative agreement
was reached between France and Ger
many on the amount to be paid by
the Reich for the mines in the event
Of the voting going in Germany's
favor, and both countries also agreed
that mixed British, Italian, Swedish
and Dutch force of 5000 soldiers
should keep order in the Saar terri
tory during the polling. January 13
now has become considerably less
sinister date than it seemed during
the Autumn. But there are still plenty
Of political as well as material explo-
sives In the Saar mines, and all Europe
will breathe q sigh Of relief if the
plebiscite period passes of without
any Incidents"
Evening star., 1934-12-30
RESUSCITATED OPTIMISM
TAKES ROOT in BRITAIN
England Tasting Recovery as Cont
mental Countries Continue to
Wallow in Depression.

| United States, which looked at one
| time as if it would swallow every
thing in sight, is demoralized for the
moment; it looks as if America is
not destined to play a very large
role in the international markets of
the world for some years to come.
Confidence Recaptured.
England, under these circumstances,
Is recapturing her former confidence;
she visualizes herself again as the
first financial power of the world,
the leading exporter and the greatest
storehouse. The confidence of the
British people is not unreasonable
in view of the fact that America. for
the moment at least, is disqualified.
The English are now profiting from
the earnestness with which they bal
anced their budget, and they are
also beneflting from having debased
their currency, from which they
culled all the advantages without
having to pay the price. Their cost
prices, expressed in terms of gold,
have not budged.
At this point it seems appropriate
to emphasize just how far the Lon
don atmosphere differs from that of
Paris.
When we consider the course of
the pound we are bound to conclude
that it has deprecated; we in France
are moved to be anxious, for we have
certain painful memories of the de-
probation of the franc. But in Lon
don no one believes that the pound
has deprecated, and the price of
sterling In francs leaves the people
perfectly cold-I have not met
single Englishman who seemed to
be the least bit worried by it. They
are more preoccupied with the ex-
change of the pound for dollars, and,
above all, with the purchasing power
Of the pound; that is to say, with
the movement of prices.
Money Opinion Changes.
Since the crisis of 1881 British opin-
ion has totally modified its point of
view toward its currency. Right after
the war England had the prestige of
her money particularly at heart, and
she clung to this feeling passionately
as long as the pound remained lower
than the dollar. Now this notion of
prestige of the currency has been en-
tirely abandoned. It has given place
to an idea Numerically opposed and
morally questionable. If, thanks to
deprecated dollar, America again re-
captures the world markets, England
will feel obliged to follow the move
ment. Such Is the idea which prevails
at least, in many industrial centers-
and, it Is said, even in the treasury
The thought Is very widespread that If
the dollar is further deprecated the
pound will follow suit accordingly, this
for reasons less properly monetary
than economic.
The calmness with which England
faces an almost indefinite decline of
the pound is astonishing to us. The
explanation, of course, is that depre-
citation has not brought about rise
in prices there. In period Of sharp
depression like this one the sellers are
demoralized and do not hold to their
prices; the buyer imposes his own con-
CONTINUED on Page .. Column IL
Evening star., 1934-12-30

Committee. In 1888 he found himself
the floor leader of the biggest ma
jority his party ever had.
Hey, joel" his colleagues on the
Appropriations Committee used to call
to him, "how much was the appropri-
alton for the Interior Department
back in such-a-year?"
We'll. sub. if recollect correctly, it
was Such-and-So."
He could pull figures of that photo
static mind of his like blueprints from
plate. And still can. He mentions
almost with a note of sorrow that
when he became floor leader after the
Roosevelt sweep he had to give up his
place on the beloved Appropriations
Committee.
Joe Byrns was born on farm near
Cedar Hill, in Robertson County,
Evening star., 1934-12-30

Author of "England's Crisis" America
Comes OF Age" etc.
r THE moment when most
n countries, especially those on
II the continent of Europe, are
1 \ suffering from extremely Sc
we're depreSsions, England for
some little time has been experiencing
at least the semblance of recovery.
Officials of the British government are
priding themselves on the excellence
of their political acumen-which after
all does not prove anything. But
business men are content; it Is evt-
dent that money is being made and
spent more literally: many enterprises
have begun to declare dividends again.
There is, at least in southern Eng
land, sort of optimism. confidence
expressed by the conviction that q
renaissance of prosperity is near. The
atmosphere of London in this respect
is curiously different from that of
Paris.
To what extent Is this revival real
and healthy? Is there any possibility
of its enduring? 1t is important to
examine these questions. At first
glance it seems that its extent is
plainly limited. The exporting indus
tries are not making much progress,
to judge by the statistics of their sales
in foreign markets. If the number Of
unemployed has diminished by 800 900
there still remain more than 2,000,-
900 jobless. In a country which lives
by its exports you surely can not
speak of real recovery under such
conditions of unemployment.
Market Now Protected.
On the other hand, the enterprises
which are working for the home mar
kets are active; a number of them
are running at full capacity. This very
evidently is the effect of the pro-
tectionist policy adopted three years
ago; the English market, which for
the last 100 years had been left to
the initiative of foreigners, has now
become a sort of protected hunting
ground for English manufacturers; the
atmosphere of boom which every one
seems to be breathing in England at
this moment can without doubt be
traced largely to this fact.
We must add that the very wise
financial policy of the government,
which made such classic efforts to
balance the budget, has permitted i'm
portant conversion operations which
resulted in a marked drop in the
rates Of interest. The price of Sc
curities has risen in consequence. At
the same time there has been some
improvement for several British en-
terprises in foreign countries; these
have resumed paying dividends which
had been suspended ever since the
depression began. This has been
enough to start a wave Of optimism
to which England has easily sue
cumbed.
The reasons for optimism are far
from being nonresident. England
avoided a monetary catastrophe three
years ago; she put her finances into
balance. The instability which reigns
everywhere has made London once
more the principal commercial and
financial center Of the world. The
Evening star., 1934-12-30

Tenn, on July 20. 1869. His early life
was the usual story among poor folks
of that part of the South in the Re
construction period. Joe learned what
it meant to hang on to the end of q
hoe handle all day in the cotton patch
or cornfield, and smack the lines over
the shanks Of a long-eared mule plod-
ding up and down the rows with a
plow.
Guess It did me good to learn to
work." Byrns remarks dryly as he
strokes a long finger over his chin re-
fectively.
There was some schooling in the
meager country school and a couple
of years In the Vanderbilt Academy
Then that urge that sometimes pushes
poor boys up and away to bigger
things prompted him to try to study
Evening star., 1934-12-30
BY ANDRE SIGFRIED,

Author of "England's Crisis "Ams
Comes OF Age" etc.
Evening star., 1934-12-30


the new Speaker of the National
~ House of Representatives. is
gentleman of the old South,
sub, and no mistake!
AS these words are being written. Mr..
Byrns is quietly but firmly making
ready to move his congressional plum
der" (as they call it in Tennessee)
from the office of the majority floor
leader to the more elaborate one
marked Speaker" He'll carry into
that high Office all the traditions and
flavor Of his Southern training.
Ask those Southern colleagues Of
his who rallied about him when the
speakership was being contested by
aSpirantS from other parts of the
country. They'll tell you. Ask the
folks down around Nashville. They
call him the work horse" in the dis
trict he has represented in Congress
since 1908
And Work Horse Joe" he is. Not
race horse-he moves with quiet
dignity from task to task. Not a
worn-out plow horse-for all his IS
years he is strong. alert, vigorous.
He's pull horse" that gets into the
collar and stays there until the wagon
is over the hill.
And that's why he is being rewarded
with the highest gift in the hands of
his fellow members of the National
Years without Opposition.
Joe Byrns has been elected to Con-
IN, al in,
nessee since 1908. An amazing item in
his record is the fact that in all those
long years since 1908 he never had op-
position in his own party until 1882.
In that year of Democratic supremacy
some candidate got out against him
and was beaten about to 1.
How do you do it, Mr.. Byrns?"
Go into his Office and ask him that
and he'll just shift one leg over the
other, look at you quizzically from
under gray, shaggy eyebrows, run
hand over his thinning gray hair and
grin wide, pleasant grin.
well, sub, reckon I'm here be-
cause I've always tried to tend to busi-
ness. Never gone galavantin' round
the country on junkets. No, suhl I
stay here when Congress is in session,
and when it amt I get acquainted with
the folks again, suh!"
Getting acquainted with the folks
means that through 26 years-as they
will tell you around Nashville-he has
learned to know personally nearly
every family in his entire district.
Attending to business" means that
he got on the Appropriations Commit
tee of the House of Representatives
early in his career. and through the
long years became the highest author
ity on the subject in either party. If
any man ever worked his way up in
congressional life, via the rocky road
of dull and routine mastery of the
work of an important committee, Cen
tleman Joe Byrns Of Tennessee is that
man.
Through Ups and Downs.
Attending to business also has meant
working hard regardless of the ups
and downs of party fortune. He took
his seat when the Republicans were
riding high, held it through the period
of the Woodrow Wilson regime, when
the World War expenditures made
holiow-eyed slaves of the majority
party members of the Appropriations
Committee He saw his party reach
the low ebbs of 1920 and 1928, and
rode the crest back in 1880, to be-
ooyoa cbo irynov of tho Approprio tions
The Washington times., 1934-06-18
GUARD CAPTAIN
PROMOTED

Capt. Clarence v. Sayer, 5S'
commander of the Howitzer COM
pany, First Infantry, Maryland
National Guard, Of Kensington
has been promoted to the rank
of major and transferred to the
unassigned list, it was announced
today.
Major sayer was one of the
organizers of the Kensington
Company and was the Oldest
company commander in the regi'
ment. He is a retired colonel in
the District of Columbia National
Guard, and served as a captain
during the World War in France
First Lieut.. David A. Parsons
was promoted to captain and
placed in command Of the com.
pany and Second Lieut.. Michael
Pugh was promoted to first lieu
tenant. First Sergt. William Sum
merS Shoemaker was commits.
stoned a second lieutenant. All
of the promotions are effective
Immediately, according to the
order issued by Major Gen. Mil.
ton A. Reckord, adjutant general
of the Maryland Guard.
The Washington times., 1934-06-18
Hold
AWARD DAY

Students of Wilson Teachers
College today observed the an
nual award day, with school Off
cials presenting scholastic and
athletic honors to outstanding
members of the graduating class.
Miss Judith Freilicoff, presi-
dent of the graduating class,
presented the senior class gavel
to officers of the junior class.
Harry Stryker and Philip Fox
were awarded the tennis trophy,
with Miss Dorothy Dean the
Torch Club award. Miss Kath-
crime Cowen was given the French
award, presented annually by the
French Embassy.
DR.. Harris L. White was pre-
Sented a trophy as the outstand-
ing athlete, Miss Cornelia Whit.
ney was honored as the outstand-
ing member of the faculty and
Norman Gill was awarded the
Phi Sigma Pi honorary fraternity.
The Washington times., 1934-06-18
LEADS
RELIEF COSTS
REDUCTION
Expenses Less Than 141
Cities, EIWood Street Points
Out in Reply to Criticisms

Washington has cut relief ex-
penditures more drastically than
the average city in the United
States, it was asserted today by
Director of Public Welfare El-
wood Street in reply to criticisms
of amounts spent for local relief.
Mr.. Street based his assertion
on a press release issued last
week by Federal Emergency Re-
lief Administrator Harry L. Hop
kins, which showed that the mum.
ber Of families and single per-
sons on relief for 141 cities
throughout the country had de-
creased less than half of one
per cent from April to May,
while expenditures for various
types of relief showed a IL per
cent increase.
The figures for Washington for
the same period showed that the
number of cases decreased 3 per
cent, while the increase in ex-
penditures was only 2 per cent.
The release showed the total
number of relief cases in the 141
cities tabulated was 1,909,363 in
May. In Washington the num-
ber was 22,C00. These figures in
clude families and single persons
on relief. The 141 cities re-
porting represent 60 per cent Of
the total urban population of
the country.
The Washington times., 1934-06-18
CARP n TIERS
VOTE TONIGHT
ON TRUCE
D. c. Building Trades Council
Demands Action on Plans
For Conference
BY EUGENE A. KELLY

Union carpenters in Washing
ton, out on strike since May /,
will decide tonight whether to &C.
cept or reject plans for a concilia-
ton conference offered by con-
tractors. <-s.
The contractors stand In readi-
ness with their own committee to
discuss peace plans with the car
penterS, who are seeking a &.3712
an hour and a six,hour day. The
question to be decided tonight by
the carpenters meeting with their
full membership in general assem-
bly, is whether they will empower
a committee with legal authority
to draw up q contract with the
contractors.
It has been the general practice
Of the local carpenters union to
appoint committees to discuss
terms with their employers but
not to authorize them with power
to negotiate. All peace terms in
the past have been referred to
the carpenters, meeting as body.
1,4O0 to Attend
More than 1,400 carpenters are
scheduled to attend the meeting
tonight in their headquarters in
the 1000 block of Tenth st. N. w.
After a conference this morning,
members of the Washington Build
ing Trades, with which the car
penterS are affiliated, voted to
hold over until tomorrow any sug-
gestions or orders regarding the
appointment of a committee to
deal with the contractors.
It is generally understood, how
ever, that the council will not sup
port the carpenters in further diff
ficulties with their employers
unless they vote to appoint an au-
thorized committee.
On the other hand, John Locher,
secretary of the council, said today
the possibility of a general strike
of all building trades in Washing
ton is "far from remote"
Pickets On Job
Contractors, meanwhile, are en-
ploying carpenters at the 11on-
union rate of $1.10 an hour.
Pickets are patrolling all con-
struction jobs in the city while
extra squads of police maintain
careful watch of all proceed
ings.
The hearing on an injunction
suit brought by one group Of plas-
terers against another was post
poned until Wednesday. Sched-
uled to be heard in District Su-
preme Court today, the injunc-
ton suit was instituted as the
result of difficulties arising out
of the setting Of a new type Of
stone on the I. c. c. and Depart
ment of Labor buildings.
Renewed attempts were made
today to bring plastererS and
their employers to peace terms.
The plaStererS are out on strike
! for SITS an hour.
The Washington times., 1934-06-18
ST D RY
WINS TIP PRIZE

Exclusive information that ap.
proximately 1000 persons on the
District Relief rolls would have
their allotments for rent cut
practically in half because of a
shortage in funds captured first
prize last week in The Washing
ton Times newstip contest.
The second prize was awarded
for a tip that the District At
torney'S office was contemplating
closing down Sailor, Beware, !"
the riotous farce at the National
Theater.
Other awards were made for
the following tips: That a former
patient at the Washington San
itarium died when he either
jumped or fell six stories from
the roof Of a building at Nine
teenth and K SITS. N. W.; that
John w. Simpson was offering
armed opposition to five deputy
marshals who came to dispossess
him from his home at Thir-
teenth and Tuckerman SITS. N.
W.; that two girls were overcome
by gas at the Central Manufac-
turing Co. in Alexandria, and
that a radio store in the 800
block Of F st. N. w. was en-
tered and robbed.
The Washington times., 1934-06-18
Committee to Plan
JuLu Fete Here

Selection Of a speaker and final
decision upon other details Of the
local Fourth of July celebration
will be the task Of the program
committee at its meeting today in
the Franklin Administration
Building.
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, presi.
dent of George Washington Uni.
versity, is head Of the committee.
The celebration, which will be
held on the Monument Grounds,
will begin at 7:15 p. m. and will
include a concert by the Marine
Band, rnassing Of colors by pa.
triotic organizations, and a fire.
works display.
The Washington times., 1934-06-18
YONKERPRA|SE
GROCERY CODE

Asserting that $4,000 persons
have been reemployed in the
food and grocery trade since
August /, 1888, E. G. Yonker,
chairman of the District of Co
lumbia Food and Grocery Code
Authority, today declared that
the code for the industry had
proved of value to producer, con-
sumer, employees, and the indus
try itself.
Elimination of 'loss leaders"
under pricing provisions, he
stated, had tended to stabilize the
general price level, without un-
duly raising costs to the con.
Sumer.
Mr.. Yonker, who is president
Of the Sanitary Grocery Com
pany, also reported that the code
has brought order out of chaos
in the industry, and promises
more economical distribution.
The Washington times., 1934-06-18
Silver Spring Shifts
Hours of LibrGru

Open hours for the Silver
Spring public library will be
changed beginning today, Mrs.
Lloyd Y. Beers, head Of the library
association, announced today.
On Monday and Friday the H.
brary will be open from Z until
$50 p. m. The Tuesday and
Thursday afternoon open sessions
have been discontinued and in.
stead the library will be open from
8 a. m. until II a. m. on Wednes-
day, so as to enable children COM
ing to the library to do so before
the heat Of the day.
The Washington times., 1934-06-18
D. c. PAYS H|GH
FOR FOODS

washington pays more for its
dairy products, bread, meats and
fresh vegetables than the average
for the rest Of the country.
This fact is shown in survey
of food prices in 81 cities, in which
IS grocery commodities were
studied. The figures were released
today in the Consumers Guide, "
biweekly publication of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administra.
ton.
Higher prices are paid here for
~ of the foods, the survey reveals.
on three cereal products studied,
prices here were the same as the
countrywide average. Ten foods
cost less here.
The period represented in the
survey included the two weeks be-
tween May 8 and %.