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Evening star., 1934-03-25
BY RUTHWELL DUNCAN.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
~HICAGO. March 24-While
/ the Illinois General Assem-
Y bly, has been wrestling with
the problem Of finding reve-
nue. to save the schools Of the
State from threatened disaster, the
debt of the Chicago Board of Educa-
ton has been climbing million by
million to new and alarming aggre-
gates.
Last week it reached 10000, 900.
Then the board managed to engineer
bank loan. and pay off S4.000,000
The teachers are now paid up to the
end Of May. 1888. Desperate condi-
tions exist for many of them. This
weeks pay day brought actual cash
to comparatively few. Most of it went
to satisfy salary assignments.
Whatever may be the issue of the
State Legislatures effort to meet the
educational crisis, 1t will not greatly
help the teacher phase of the Chi
cago situation. 1t IS hoped that down.
State schools may be relieved suffi-
ciently to prevent the closing of
doors, or the drastic shortening of
terms. The Chicago schools will con-
tinue to operate in their present
handicapped fashion if the teachers
do not withdraw further credit by re-
fusing to go on with their unpaid
labors.
Federal Aid Only Hope.
The only immediate hope for wip-
ing out the teacher pay Indebtedness
in Chicago lies in the possibility of
Federal aid.
A year ago the Board of Education
was authorized to issue up to $40,-
100000 in bonds. Since then it has
been unable to find a market for
them Efforts are being made to float
them with the R. F. c. or some other
Federal agency controlling loanable
funds. Several bills pend in Con-
greSS that contemplate this solution
Evening star., 1934-03-25
School Debt in Chicago
Reaches Alarming Figure
Jumps to s30,OOO,000 as Legislature
Seeks Rerenue for Education;
Federal Aid Held Only Hope.

of the problem The Illinois Legisla-
ture has enacted a bill which per-
mits the Board of Education to set up
as security all school property not
now used for school purposes. Local
tanning Federal aid has improved in
the last few weeks.
Auto Fatalities Increase.
A shocking increase in automobile
fatalities in Chicago for the first
three months of 1894 has brought a
note Of alarm and warning from the
Chicago Safety Council Up to March
18 the police reports show that 216
persons were killed in motor acci-
dents. That is II more than for the
same period in 1888.
The Safety Council does not COM
ment on the probable cause for this
sharp increase, but others call atten-
ton to the fact that the only notable
change in the situation is the return
of lawful liquor. Accidents were de-
clining in number prior to January OF
this year. Fatalities in 1888 were
fewer than in 1882. 1t seems evident
that the liquor control law In Illi-
nois has not improved the control Of
automobiles.
Nor has it resulted in better con-
ditions among young persons Of high
school age. From every quarter OF
the city come disturbing stories of
orgies in the backrooms of saloons
now called taverns-in which teen
aged youth are the chief participants.
One of Cook County's finest high
schools, some miles beyond the city's
limits, is experiencing much diff
Guilty with a group of its young people
who frequent a drinking place located
on sector of the county that is not
policed, and that goes by the name of
'No-ManS Land"
Throughout the State a strong re-
action is beginning to set in. Men
who never had any sympathy with
prohibition are now openly saying
that the liquor control law Of Illinois
is the worst license measure that
ever cursed a State.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
DEMOCRATS FACE
FACT|0NAL STRIFE
New Members of Party in
Washington Seek to
Gain Control.
BY JAMES DE X. BROWN.

special DlSpatCn 10 Inc star.
SEATTLE, March 24.-As both Re-
publican and Democratic leaders pre-
pare for the coming county and State
conventions, factional strife in the
Democratic ranks promises to upset
the harmony program sought by State
and Federal leaders.
When the Roosevelt landslide two
years ago swept out of Office every
Republican from a United States
Senator down to members of the
county commissions. there flooded into
the Democratic ranks veritable horde
of voters without strong political ties
or affiliations. This horde, being in
the majority, now seeks to take over
and hold control of the party, re-
Sulting in a rather chaotic condition.
The Republicans. cheered by the re-
cent municipal elections, which indi-
cate an unrest on the part of the
voters, who refused to return to office
any former officials, deciding instead
for a wholesale house cleaning, are
now recognizing. with the younger,
more liberal and less conservative
leaders in charge.
The Democrats on the other hand,
despite their control over both State
and national patronage, find that
many of their following are swerving
into the Independent Progressive
Clubs of Washington, an organization
of which John Coffee. brother-in-law
of Senator Homer T. Bone. is an
outstanding active worker, assisted by
Judge W. H Pemberton, Democrat
now State inheritance tax collector,
and Otto A. Case, the Democratic
State treasurer.
This progressive group, so-called.
has been active in placing candidates
in some of the more lucrative Federal
posts, and this success. leads to the
belief that United States Senator
Clarence c. Dill, may not ask for re-
nomination and election. Reports from
Dills home city, Spokane, are to the
effect that some of his former political
lieutenants are quietly beating the
highways of the State for a prospec-
tive candidate to succeed Dill. This
is taken to mean that the senior Sem
ator does not desire to make another
race.
Pemberton, recognized as a stanch
Bone supporter, is already actively
campaigning in a quiet way for the
nomination for the seat held by Dill.
This will bring about a wide schism
in the party ranks, a break which the
forces of Gov. Martin will not be able
to heal.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
POLITICIANS LOSE
TWO POSTS UNDER
c. WA. IN INDIANA
Democrat and Republican
Accused of Organizing
MayoraIty Fight.
BY HAROLD c. FEIGHTNER.

INDIANAPOLIS, March 24-The
first test Of President RooSevelt's Or
der against injection of politics in
the C. w. A has caused the dismissal
of two men from important posts in
the Indianapolis organization.
One was Perry Easton, formerly
State Senator, who was accused of
organizing a candidacy for mayor of
indianapolis within c. w. A. ranks.
The other was George Myers, a Re-
publican, who, curiously enough, was
charged with having aided Easton.
Easton was one of the few Demo-
cratic State Senators elected in 1924,
when the Ku Klux Klan engulfed the
State, while Myers served as chief
lieutenant to Walter Bossert when the
latter was head Of the Klan hosts in
Indiana.
Easton's candidacy, which died when
he was discharged, was not welcomed
by the Democratic leaders of Indian
apolis, who already have arrayed
themselves behind Judge John w.
Kern LOT lNe nOnllndIlOn. hern.
son of the former United States Sem
ator. John W. Kern, is judge of one
of the Marion Superior Courts. His
bent for politics is inherited from a
father who was one of the leaders of
Indiana Democracy and Bryan's run
ming mate in 1903.
The Indiana Advisory Board for the
Public Works Administration has
closed its offices. Sixty projects, in
volving the expenditure of more than
$7,000,000, are under construction,
while about S25 100000 more, approved
by the local board, are awaiting the
sanction of Washington.
Coordination of the various Federal
relief agencies is progressing rapidly
under the direction of Fred Hoke,
chairman of the Emergency Relief
Council. Although the C. w. A. is
being slowly demobilized, various new
projects have been approved in COM
munities which have not yet been af-
fected by the industrial revival.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
BY GEORGE HEALY, JR.

NEW ORLEANS, La, March "a
Back in Louisiana for the first time
since the defeat of his candidates in
the New Orleans municipal primary
January %, Senator Huey P. Long
has started making major changes in
his political machine.
The first change was appointment,
through Gov. o. K. Allen, OF Fire
Marshal r. j. Gregory to succeed
c. S. Barnes as registrar of voters OF
Orleans Parish. Frank A. Vonder-
haar was appointed to succeed Greg
ory in the fire marshal's post.
Changes announced by Gov. Allen
followed a conference in New Orleans
Monday night between Senator Long
and his city ward leaders and heads of
State departments. Reports were
current following the conference that
major shake-ups were planned.
Senator Longs return from Wash
ington, his political associates said,
was for three purposes-reorganiza-
tion of his forces in New Orleans, Sc
lection of a candidate to run under
Evening star., 1934-03-25
INTEREST IN STOCK BILL
SHOWN IN NEW ENGLAND
Northeastern States Have Long
Put Their Wealth Into Indus
trial Securities.
snecial pispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOSTON, March 24.-Probably no
measure introduced under the new
deal has aroused as much genuine
personal interest in New England as
the bill for Federal regulation OF the
stock exchanges Of the country. The
course of the measure Is being closely
followed and is receiving much pub
ncity.
This interest is easy to understand.
The thrift and astuteneSs Of New Eng
land is proverbial. Many of the great
railroad systems of the country, min
ing enterprises and other industrial
ventures were originally financed by
this section and as result OF this
New England developed the investing
habit long before many other sections
of the United States.
In addition to this the Northeastern
States are proverbially industrial, and
while many Of the smaller plants are
privately owned, the bulk Of New Eng
lands industry has been publicly
financed.
This security ownership has devel-
oped a large amount of trading In un-
listed stocks and bonds, in addition to
the transactions on the various stock
exchanges in New England. In fact
one prominent Boston morning news
paper prints two columns OF unlisted
stock and bond tables daily, in addi-
ton to the regular exchange tables.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
Knoxville Leads
MPIans for UseO of
T. Y. 4. Current
Loan for Distributing
System Speeds Work
in Tennessee.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 24.-An-
nouncement from Washington last
week that the Public Works Admins
tration had approved loan of $780,
900 for building a city power dis
tributing system in Knoxville has
revived and enlivened the interest Of
people throughout the State in the
Muscle Shoals project. The people Of
Knoxville last November voted a bond
issue to build a distributing system,
but some hitch in the proceedings
held the matter in allegiance.
Since Knoxville bids to be the first
of the larger cities in the Tennessee
Valley to go into the T. V. A. plan,
other cities are awaiting develop
ments with renewed interest. Shortly
before the Knoxville election, Birming-
ham voters diSapproved the T. v. A.
idea. There has been some agitation
in Nashville and Chattanooga, but it
Is probable the situation in Memphis
has been more keenly watched than
elsewhere.
The T. v. A. has offered to build
transmission line into Memphis,
and the city authorities have set
about getting up data for determining
what further steps should be taken.
There Is q general belief, though it
has not been publicly announced, that
the Memphis Power & Light Co.
stands ready to meet the T. v. A.
price. That means that the local
plant thinks it can produce power
as cheaply as the T. ". A. can and,
If so, its distribution system is ready
to function Immediately.
In addition to the power feature,
Memphis has natural gas, controlled
by the same company which controls
the distribution of power. Since natu-
raj gas can be used to much greater
advantage by the practical user, the
Memphis Power Co. would have an
added inducement as a trading point
There has been no intimation yet Of
what the Memphis authorities will
require of the power plant, but the
T. v. A. plan is being taken with
much seriousness.
Nashville's experience with munic-
ipal power extends to street lighting.
1t is the largest city in the State
having its own street lighting system.
For all practical purposes It has
proved q paying investment.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
new JERSEY SHOWS
STEADY TRADE GAIN
Bad Weather Results in Only
Temporary Increase in Re-
lief Roster.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DlSpatch TO Inc star.
TRENTON, N. j., March 24-New
Jersey is recording steady gains in its
fight for return to normal business
conditions.
Employment has increased, prices
are going up, theaters are playing to
standing room again and newspaper
advertising is increasing-au signs
pointing one way to better business.
Except for the check caused by the
unusually severe weather of February,
the State and municipal relief lists
have been diminished and the trend
of industry has been unmistakably
upward.
Relief demands increased during
February over January, the inevitable
result of the billiards. in this section
that caused great suffering for those
in need. But the mid-February relief
statistics were $4,000 less than the
corresponding period year ago.
The c. w. A. pay roll dropped to
90 900 as the administratio policy of
gradual reduction became apparent.
The weekly pay roll, including that
for trucks, was $l,350,0O0. About g.
800 additional were employed directly
on Federal projects.
The industry gains may be seen
from a report by John j. Toohey, jr.,
State labor commissioner. In a sur
vey of 700 key industries and mer-
camille concerns in the State, per
cent increase in pay rolls over jan
uary was shown. Average weekly
earnings increased from $20.61 to
$2l.22, an average of 90 per cent.
Workers newly employed totaled 3,724.
Like the relief lists, these gains
show marked improvement over the
same period in 1888. During the year
the number of employees in these 700
concerns increased 24.2 per cent, and
weekly pay rolls went from $3.124,551
to $4,048.914, gain of 296 per cent.
The chief gains were reported in the
textile, leather, tobacco products, stone
and clay products, vehicles, chemicals,
lumber, iron and steel, and the food
group.
While this showing undoubtedly
represents the strongest concerns in
the State, the survey shows the lesser
concerns have improved also.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
LONG REVISING MACHINE
Two Appointments Are Made Through Gov. o. X. Allen
in First Steps Taken Since Defeat of Candidates
in New Orleans

the Long banner in the sixth district
congressional primary next month and
preparation of his lines for the reg
ular session of the Legislature which
opens in May.
Three office holders who are men,
bers of the Long organization were
removed Tuesday from the City Plan
ming and Zoning Commission by action
of Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley and
the commission council. Long organ
ization members removed from the
commission are John Klorer, engineer
for the Orleans Levee Board and un-
successful candidate for mayor in the
January primary; Seymour Weiss.
president of the Dock Board, and
H. w. WagueSpack, member OF the
Levee Board.
Conditional acceptance of the re-
duced electric rates ordered by the
commission council March Z was voted
Wednesday by the board Of directors
Of New orleans Public Service, Inc.
The reduced rates will be put into ef-
feet on all electric bills rendered on
and after April IS.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
alabama GreetS
Good Ne,rs in Iron
And Cotton Trades
Control Bill for Latter Is
A,uaited-Farn, Sec
tiOns ShOru Pick.Up.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

6peCldI DlSpdlCH 10 Inc OIdT.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. March "a
Cotton and iron, two leading products
of Alabama, are both expected TO
benefit by national news of the week
The progress of the Bankhead cotton
bill and the temporary truce in rail
and steel circles have tinged with
a brighter rose the Alabama general
outlook.
Alabama planters from the begin
ming have generally supported the
principle behind the Bankhead bill
1t was not until after the Bankhead
brothers, Representative and Senator,
had visited many parts Of the State
and talked with practical farmers as
we'll as bankers who have been car
rying much of the financial burden
Of the agricultural sections that the
bill was framed. The act, therefore
has general support in this State and
the assurance of the bills ultimately
becoming law has tended to give the
farmer a faith in a more permanent
recovery than is held out in the more
temporary measures so far adopted.
Farm Situation Better.
The farming season is beginning to
pick up in the Southern part of the
State. Flowing is well advanced and
planting soon will begin.
The industrial section rises and
falls with the automobile and rail
industries. Consequently settlement,
at least for time, of the labor dis
orders in those fields and the indi-
cation that the Federal Government
will continue to exercise all the power
at it's command in maintenance of
peace in these pivotal industries give
hope of continued operation in the
Alabama mills and mines.
Alabama received blow this week
in the announcement from its con-
gressional delegation in Washington
that only a few of the States appli-
cations for P. w. A. funds could be
granted because of legal difficulties.
The way seemed left open, however,
for legislative action to clear up
some of these obstacles. Gov. Miller
may call a special session of the Leg
islature to pass the necessary laws,
and this seemed likely as the week
drew to a close, although he has al
ready struggled with two special seS-
sions and has declared that another
would not be summoned except in dire
emergency. The next regular session
does not come until January, 1885.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
100000 FARM
LOANS TO BE TOTAL
South Carolina and Three Other
States Operations Chiefly
Refnancing.
Special Dispatch To The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLUMBIA, S. c., March 24.-The
Federal Farm Credit Administration
in the third district, comprising the
four States of South Carolina. North
Carolina, Georgia and Florida, has
loaned to farmers since July l, 1888,
a total of $30,000,000 and applications
have been approved for $1,000, 900
more, and are awaiting abstracting of
titles. About 96 per cent OF the loans
are for refinancing. and not more
than 4 per cent are new loans.
The loans are made on a basis of
so per cent Of the estimated value of
the farm with about 90 of the i'm
provements thereon. 1t Is understood
that the loans have been made, not
with liberality, bit with reasonable
expectation of repayment.
The record for repayment Is good.
About 80 per cent OF the seed loans
made last year have been repaid,
according to A. Frank Lever, director
Of public relations Of the Federal
agencies, and former Congressman
from this district.
This takes into consideration only
the actual amount Of the seed loans,
however, without the cost of making
the loans. 1t is understood that
there was considerable loss in this
respect.
But the Federal land loans are on
q much more secure basis, as they
are secured by mortgages on the
lands and homes of the farmers.
There, however, is a difference be-
tween the Federal Land Bank loans
and the loans from the Federal loan
fund. Loans from the latter are sup
posed to have been made with more
liberality than those made by the
Federal Land Bank.
1t is a notable fact that the
total farm loans actually made and
the commitments, aggregating about
$98, 100000 to date, are in excess Of
the 500, 100000 total loans made by
the Federal Land Bank of this third
district during the first Is years OF
its existence from 1917 to 1882. in
elusive.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
FARMER-LABOR|TE
STATE CONVENTION
ST|RS MINNESOTA
Opposing Parties Hope Split
Will Break Strength of
Faction.
BY JERRY VESSELS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


ST. PAUL, Mimi, March 24.-Po-
litical interest in Minnesota was
reaching crescendo tonight as
Farmer-Laborites prepared for the
opening of their State convention here
Tuesday.
While rulers of the dominant po-
litical group in this State worked
feverishly to smooth a path toward a
harmonious meeting. expeditions draft
ing of new platform and indorse-
ment of candidates for the June pri-
maries, members of the other parties
nervously awaited the outcome.
Trouble has been brewing in some
Farmer-Labor quarters, particularly
over the choice Of a United States
senatorial candidate, and events of
recent weeks presage a stormy session
or two, with indications, however,
pointing just as strongly toward ulti-
mate agreement in keeping with the
party leaders wishes.
Others Hope for Split.
On the side lines are the Repub-
licans and Democrats, whose conven-
tionS come later and whose battle
plans will hinge largely on the out
come OF the Farmer Labor gathering.
The Republicans, facing threatened
greater losses in State government,
outwardly were hopeful of a Farmer
Labor split to provide new campaign
opportunities.
The Democrats, many Of whom were
presumed to have supported the State
Farmer-Labor ticket at the last cleo
ton in return for backing of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's candidacy, undoubt-
edly viewed the preliminaries with
confused emotions, since their own
party has q major cleavage of its own
to contend with.
Above the whole setting stood Gov.
Floyd B. Olson, 40-year-old former
Hennepin County prosecutor, whose
ascendancy to the governorship in
1881 marked commencement of grad
ual recesSions in Republican power
and establishment Of productive con-
nections with the Democrats, them
Selves independently impotent.
Evening star., 1934-03-25
BY THOMAS COMPERE.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
n YEW YORK, March 24.-Details
M of a public works program,
VI involving the expenditure Of
i ' $132, ,6O6,86O and the employ
ment Of 27,028 men, which
has been delayed for more than two
months because of the obstructionist
tactics of the Democrats in the State
Legislature, were made public here
this week for the first time by Mayor
Fiorello H. La Guardia. The delay
Of the Legislature in passing the
mayors economy bill, which would
enable the city to balance its budget,
has caused the Public Works Admin
istration to withhold money for many
public works here.
Mayor La Guardia estimated that
Evening star., 1934-03-25
Tax Changes Opposed.

Every class of property upon which
it is proposed in the special session
of the Legislature to lay additional
tax burdens is fighting back with such
vigor that it looks as though the Leg
iSlature might have to return to the
retail sale tax, which it once dis
carded.
Simon Lazarus, a large retail deal
er, member of Gov. Whites Special
State Taxation Commission, takes the
position that there is really little ne
cessity for seeking new sources OF
State revenue. He would press the
collection of delinquent taxes and
eliminate useless expenditures: with
that it would be possible to balance
the budgets, he insists, with little
additional tax income.
Justin w Harding of Franklin this
week announced himself candidate
for nomination, as Republican, for
Congressman at large. Under the
Coolidge administration Harding was
United States district judge in Alaska.
Owing to delays in final details the
State Liquor Commission has been
unable to open the county dispen-
saries which we're announced to start
business on March Is. 1t Is believed
most of them will be in operation
within another week.
Dow Akin, former member of the
Legislature and author of the Akin
law. by which before prohibition the
State received an enormous revenue
from the taxation of saloons, has been
charged with professional misconduct
as a lawyer in managing the estate
of an incompetent ward.
The projectors of the several water
conservation plans now under consid-
Grafton in Ohio are finding that the
municipal chambers of commerce are
almost without exception taking a po-
sition against the projects wherever
there Is a transportation feature in
them. The railroads are believed to
have obtained control of the princi-
pal city chambers in order to prevent
competition by artificial water
channels.
Mayor Henry W. Worley of Colum-