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Evening star., 1934-03-28
DEMANDS
DELAY ARMS PACT
British Cabinet to Reply
After Easter to Plea
for Security. 2
BY the Associate Press.

By the Associate Press.
LONDON. March 28.-The meeting
of the Steering Committee of the
World Disarmament Conference, set
for April 10. at Geneva, probably
will be postponed for at least two
weeks, possibly longer, it was said to-
day by sources close to Arthur Hen
derson, president of the conference.
Frances demand for guarantees
from Great Britain for execution of
disarmament pact was said to be
the reason for the indicated delay.
The British cabinet has considered
its policy toward guarantees of safety
to France and formal reply will be
sent to Paris. probably not until after
Easter.
The Steering Committee is to de-
eide if and when the Disarmament
Conference will meet again.
Henderson discussed the situation
with Sir John Simon, British foreign
secretary. late today, but announce
ment of the postponement Of the bu-
reau meeting is not expected until
Henderson confers with other officers
of the conference.
These officers. it was said. firmly
oppose any indefinite delay, feeling
the bureau must meet eventually
either to kill or save" disarmament.
Evening star., 1934-03-28
What's What
BehindNeWs
In Capital
Business Looks Good
for No Reason Other
Than Spring.
BY PAUL MALLON.

The law of nature appears to have
gone Democratic.
Business looks good on the inside
and out, for no apparent reason, ex-
cept that Spring is here. Improve
ment is 10 to 20 per cent better than
normal for this season. Employment
and pay rolls are particularly en-
couraging.
These deductions stick out on the
economic box score for this month.
The figures which do not lie, and
which are not figured by liars, indi-
cate we are nearly back to the aver
age business level for 1881 and still
going up.
The progress has been made in the
face of business skittishness about
some current phases of the new deal.
and public psychology which is not
as encouraging as it might be.
Evening star., 1934-03-28
EMPLOYMENT GAINS
IN SILK FACTORIES
Wages Also Higher by % Per
Cent, While Hours Show %
Per Cent Decline.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, March ga survey
by the National Federation of Textiles.
Inc, made public yesterday by the
code authority for the silk textile in
dustry shows an increase in employ
rlnent, wages and loom operation and
a decrease in hours of labor per en-
ploye per week.
} The survey covered some 800 manu-
facturers. The basis of comparison
was data for the week ending July l..
1888, Immediately prior to the presi-
Dental agreement. and the week end
ing February /, 1884.
The total number of employees in
the silk textile industry increased II
per cent.
Hours of labor per employe per week
showed decrease of % per cent.
The average minimum wages in
creased more than % per cent. Aver
age wages by the reporting loom
operators showed a gain of over 81
per cent and actual weekly pay rolls
increased more than 80 per cent. The
survey said this represented "a gain
for the entire industry of over s14,-
100000 per annum under the CODE"
Evening star., 1934-03-28

There can be no serious question
about the honesty of these figures.
They may not be perfect, but they
are nearer perfection than any you
can get. At least all recognized econ
omists accept them as such.
They come from too many sources
to reflect collusion. For instance, the
Federal Reserve Board gets the in
dustrial production figures from a
score of sources, including the Amer
lean Iron and Steel Institute, the
Tanners Council. the Census Bureau
(textiles and autos), Treasury (tobac-
CO manufacturing withdrawals). the
Bureau of Mines, the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association. American
Paper and Pump Associations and
others.
No one ever accused the Federal
Evening star., 1934-03-28

ranks with these as a special aide
and trouble-shooter.
To obtain quick decision on policy
for completion of pending codes and
revision of existing ones, three policy
boards were ordered created.
They will advise all officials on
labor, trade practice and code author
ity questions. Each will be composed
of spokesmen for the various advisory,
legal and research units OF N. r. A.
Clarence Darrow's Recovery Review
Board has a standing invitation to be
represented in the policy conferences.
to further it's protection of small in
dustries against oppression and mon
opoly.
Further, each division administra-
tor-there are now seven divisions
will have an assistant for enforce
ment, another for code authority or
ganization and a third for code au-
thorities administration. These men
will be responsible to Hartman for
keeping the acts of each division
and its deputy administrators in line
with general policy.
Four Courses Laid Down.
Expedited procedure will route COM
plants to the Compliance Board
which, with the advice of the affected
deputy and assistant counsel, will de-
termine on one of four courses:
/. Removal of the Blue Eagle.
2. Abandonment of the case.
3. Ordering new conciliation at
tempts.
4. Referring to department of Jus
tice or Federal Trade Commission via
the litigation department.
Policy disagreements will be up to
johnson himself to settle, and all in
terested parties will retain their right
of appeal to either Federal Trade or
Department of Justice.
Evening star., 1934-03-28
60.DAY.0LD WHISKY
TO SELL ST A QUART
Virginia Alcohol Beverage Board
Plans Drive on Boot
leggers.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, March 28.-As
the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control
Board left here today for conferences
in other States having laws similar to
Virginia's statute. it was learned it
will attempt to buy 80 to so day old
whisky to be sold at not more than
81 per quart retail.
This grade of whisky would be sold
in a competitive drive against the
bootlegger The best grades of liquor
will be handled also.
The cheap whisky plan of the
board is an outgrowth of suggestions
originating in the General Assembly.
The board expects its lowest grade
will be far superior to bootleg whisky
and it was pointed out that consumers
could buy it and keg it just as men,
bers said has been the practice with
the bootleg product.
The board left today on a f1ve-day
trip into the Middle West and back
through New York and the District
of Columbia to see liquor laws in
operation in an effort to avoid costly
mistakes"
Evening star., 1934-03-28
BY the Associated Press.


LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica,
March % (Via Mackay Radio) Rear
Admiral Richard E. Byrd put the final
touches today on little shack where
he will spend eight months with
battery of thermometers for company
It's all in the name OF science.
Alone in this tiny portable house at
a Winter advance base 1913 miles south
of Little America, he plans to study
Antarctic meteorological phenomena
until the end of October.
There will be perils aplenty. In
tense cold, depressing darkness. sud-
den storms. Yet, said Byrd as he de-
parted by plane:
II hope no one will make anything
of what I am about to do. I am
making no sacrifice of any kind"
He urged the SIS men at Little
America not to become concerned
should his radio fail. After all, he
smiled, II am not a radio operator, so
the radio will probably fail"
In his absence the men at Little
America will be under command Of
DR.. Thomas G. Pouler. senior scientist
and second in command.
Although the nearly completed
shack boasts little more than elbow
room, Byrd minimized its shortcom-
ings. It will be nearly flreproof, he
said. and reasonably warm.
Soon, with tn house sunk below
Evening star., 1934-03-28
PRICING DEFENDED.
BY C|GARET FIRMS.
Uniformity Is Held Result of
Competition and Not
of Agreement.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A detailed examination of a repre-
sentative of cigarette manufacturers
on why the most prominent brands
always cost exactly the same followed
the manufacturers request to House
committee today for 40 per cent cut
in Federal tobacco taxes.
Representatives Mccormack, Demo-
crat, Of Massachusetts. asked Junius
Parker, New York attorney represent
ing % manufacturers including the
big -Four" cigarette makers, If the
uniformity in price wasn't due to
combination.
Parker denied that.
why, think the very fact of COM
petition drives them to the same
level" he said.
Sees Lower Prices.
The so-called 15-cent cigarettes,
he said, would 60 Immediately to 10
cents, and the so-called l0-cent cigar
cites would drop to 8 cents, If the tax
were cut.
If the tax were not reduced he
said. the price of the cheaper cigar
cites would Undoubtedly" 60 higher
AS to smoking tobacco and other
manufactured tobacco, including
snuff, plug and twist, Parker said the
detailed results could not be forecast
accurately, but that there was little
doubt of the general result.
Representative Vinson. Democrat, OF
Kentucky, asked how 1t happened that
in January this year the standard
brands all increased their wholesale
price.
Parker said that R. J. Reynolds was
the first company to increase its price
per thousand from $500 to s610.
Others Glad to Follow.
Il have no doubt" he said, that
all the companies wanted to increase
their prices, but each was afraid to
be the first. When the first one went
up the others Just jumped at the op-
portunity.
L don't say it as an opinion,
concert, no combination among these
companies"
Parker said the proposed reduction
would cut the tax on cigarettes from
50 to 81 80 a thousand.
The poundage tax on manufactured
tobacco and snuff would be reduced
from l8 to 10 cents pound.
Parker appeared before the House
group headed by Representative Vim
son, Democrat, Of Kentucky, which
yesterday heard farmers plead for a
reduction in the SO a thousand tax
on cigarettes.
Farmers. while unanimous in ask
ing tax reduction, disagreed sharply
over whether it should be horizontal or
graduated on a basis of retail selling
price.
The subcommittee will report tc
Chairman Doughton of the full COM
mittee later.
Cite Price Advance
Supporters of the graduated tax
argued that since the advent of the
10-cent cigarette in 1882 there had
been increased competition in auction
markets which had resulted in better
prices to growers. Unless the tax were
reduced on the cheaper product, they
said, the 10-cent package manufac-
turers would be forced to go out OF
business or increase their prices.
Those favoring a horizontal cut
argued that the graduated scale would
be in effect a subsidy for the 10-cent
cigarette makers. The graduated tax
is opposed by the big four" manufac-
turers of the 15-cent cigarette brands
American Tobacco Co.. Liggett &
Myers, R. J. Reynolds and P. Lor-
rilard.
Evening star., 1934-03-28
WHEAT
QUOTA|SPR0BLEM
World ParIey to Face Ques-
tion of Excessive
Exports.
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, March 28.-The attitude
to be taken by the Argentine govern
ment toward restrictive measures to
lift world wheat prices was expected
today to play an important role in
deliberations Of the international
wheat conference beginning in Rome
next week.
Operation of the Argentine subsidy
and trade statistics showing she is in
danger of exceeding the years ex-
port quota of 10000, 900 bushels by
July 81 caused apprehension among
representatives of other nations who
attended a preliminary conference
here this week.
Australians and Canadians, it is
known, are especially critical of the
operation of direct and indirect sub
sides by all other big producing ma
tions.
Attitude in Doubt.
Reports that DR.. Thomas A. lie
Breton. Ambassador to Paris and for
mer Argentine Minister of Agriculture,
as well as Dr. A. Fernandez Beyro.,
Argentine delegate, is going to Rome
have encouraged other delegates to
expect that Argentina will be ready to
take some definite action.
Her position thus far is not clear,
it was learned authoritatively.
Other delegates have given the i'm
preston they were not able to ascer-
tain definitely the Argentine attitude
in half a dozen conferences held
since the international wheat pact
was signed last year.
DIR. Beyro has been the mystery
man" of these parleys, but it is not
clear whether this was because his
country is withholding a decision or
that he is lacking in instructions.
Argentina. it was indicated, feels
she may not be able to enter the
newly proposed scheme for more con-
slant restriction of exports. replacing
ones for yearly quotas or a minimum
world price agreement.
Delegates Are Silent.
Anxious to reach an accord with
the huge wheat-growing country and
not to offend her representatives.
other delegates have maintained a
discreet silence on the Argentine sit
uation, refusing to make any public
comments.
Argentina has been dominating the
wheat trade owing to a bumper crop
last year.
Estimates as of March "a show she
exported total of 81 100000 bushels.
whereas for two-thirds of the quota
year exports should not exceed IA
100000 bushels.
But the Wheat Advisory Commits
sion assumes Argentina, having ac-
cepted the quota, will be found within
it at the end of the period.
Aside from Hungary, which was
granted an increase at the expense
Of other Danubian countries, all other
nations are keeping within their quota
limits
Delegates point out that Argentina.
by guaranteeing farmers a minimum
price, prevents wheat from rushing
to ports but underselling on the world
market is a thorn in the side of Aus
tralians and Canadians.
Evening star., 1934-03-28

against brain trusters" at Washing
ton
He called on all civic and public
leaders who had information of the
Vaccinations of the brain trust" to
lend their aid to him in the open.
Cannot Fight Alone"
Asserting he could not carry on a
"one-man battle" the Gary super
intendent of schools said there are
many men in Washington and
throughout the country who know
that the brain trust is working toward
a revolution in the social and eco
nomic order" and that these men
have facts to back up their con-
tentions.
They may be afraid to come for
ward because they have been told
they will have to pay the piper for
their fearlessness. But they must do
it for the welfare of the people, for I
cannot fight alone. I know the names
of some Of these men, but I cannot
reveal them because 1 will not violate
condolences. If they give me per-
mission to make their names public I
will do so"
Opposes Market Bill.
Dr. Writ demanded a full investi-
CATION or none" of his charges. He
preferred, he said, an investigation
by a congressional committee rather
than by the Department of Justice,
and urged that the committee hold
public hearings.
MY DESIRE" he added. "is to ac-
quaint the public with the facts. I
will be glad to appear before a COM
mittee and welcome the opportunity
to tell all I know"
At the same time DR.. Writ an
nounced his opposition to proposed
legislation for the country's stock
and commodity markets.
This Is not the time to scrap our
important market machinery and ex-
pertinent with new implements" he
said. "
Evening star., 1934-03-28

Reserve Board of doctoring any fig
ures.
There haze been suspicious that
the Labor Department figures on
employment and pay rolls tDere in
accurate in years past. For that
reason the Federal ReserUe and
other selt-respecting fgurers COL
lected their o,Un statistics on those
tho items. But lately the Labor
Department system has been re-
uised. The Federal ReserUe has
shopn such faith in them that it
Is no longer collecting its own.
The railroad figures come from the
American Railway Association, build
ing from F. w. Dodge Corporation,
department store sales from Federal
Reserve and foreign trade from the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce. The best proof that they
are honest is that they rarely show
what the new dealers would like to
show.
tCopyright 19A.)
Evening star., 1934-03-28
SINGER ASKS DIVORCE

NEW YORK, March % [P1.-Mrs.
Cobina Wright, singer and social di-
rector of the newly organized In-Town
Club, has begun suit for divorce
against William May Wright. former
member of the New York Stock Ex-
change, it was learned yesterday.
Justice Albert Cohn signed an order
directing that the papers be left at
Wrights hotel for him after process
servers reported that they were unable
to serve him personally.
The Wrights, who were married in
1920, have been living apart for some
time time They have one daughter Co.
Evening star., 1934-03-28
900 LIBERTY BOND
REDEMPTION REFUSED
Roosevelt Vetoes Bill 20 Provide
Treasury to Pay for Stolen
Certificate.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt yesterday vetoed
an act directing the Secretary of the
Treasury to redeem $1,000 Liberty
bond alleged to have been stolen from
Joanna A. Sheehan of Haverhill. Mass.
In his message vetoing it, he said
the measure was objectionable "since
it provides for the payment of in
terest on the bond
Paid interest due bonds" he wrote,
"are not now assorted and recorded
by serial numbers, and obviously the
coupons which were attached when
the bond was lost may have been
paid, or may be paid in the future.
and the Treasury Department would
not be in position to know of such
payment"
Evening star., 1934-03-28
MEASLES TOTAL 1854

The District Health Department
today received reports of 81 additional
cases of measles in the District, bring
ing the total reported since January
to 4,534.
No additional deaths were reported,
the total of fatalities attributed to
measles complicated with other ILL
nesses standing at l8.
Evening star., 1934-03-28
Indus Fac
trial tory
Frt. Dept.

fThe estimates Tor March were obtained
from purely private and unoficial sources.)
The employment and pay roll fig
ures were so good that the Labor De-
partment experts were suspicious Of
them at first. They sent the figures
back for rechecking, holding up pub
licatiOn for several DAYS
Evening star., 1934-03-28
Bandits Seize Unguarded Man.

DENVER R.-For the first time in
five years, E. j. Timbers, bottling COM
pany official, counted his money with
out a bodyguard of employees around
hin1-and bandits came.
Two men took Sl70 from Timbers
after taping him tightly and placing
him on the floor.
Evening star., 1934-03-28
Codes Get None of Credit.

The recheck showed that the good
complishments beyond their eXpecta-
tions. Nothing happened during Feb
ruary and arch which can explain
a growth of employment and pay rolls
out of proportion to the growth of
production.
The N R. A codes began to go into
effect last october. From then until
February there was steady shrinkage
in both employment and pay rolls. So
the codes could rot have had much to
do with it.
The only plausible explanation
is that manufacturers could not
increase their production beyond q
certain point WITHOUT also increds-
ing employment and pay rolls.
When the time came to step up
Spring production they had to en-
large their pay rolls.
That is shown by the fact that the
pay roll increases came in industries
which were increasing production.
Automobile pay roll went up 40 per
cent in February: iron and steel, 10
per cent; rubber. 13 per cent, and to-
bacco manufactures, IA: textiles. 20
per cent; leather, 20 per cent: ma
chinery. 10 per cent.
The automobile, steel and rubber
improvements can be traced to one
thing. Automobile production started
late and therefore was carried on at
an accelerated rate. Chevrolet and
Plymouth had virtually no production
in January
Textiles and leather reflect in
creased production of Easter finery.
Improvement General.
While these bellwether industries
led the way, the improvement was
general. Out Of 89 manufacturing
industries, II increased employment
in February and 70 increased their
pay roll outlay.
As it is customary for oil ad-
ninistrations to claim credit for
acts of nature. the neD dealers TiH
probably get credit for this.
The promised flood of public works
money still looks like a raindrop.
Secretary Ickes put out S47.000,000
during February, which is about half
of his outlay of contracts awarded for
December.
But here again nature has
stepped in. There has been Uir-
tually no priuate building for tUo
gears. Yet in February contracts
awarded for priudte building
totdled s50,000,00O, Which is s3,-
100000 more than Mr.. IckeS spent.
That brought the total this Feb
ruary to nearly twice what it was last
February (s53,00000O, which does
not mean much because we we're
scraping bottom then
The March improvement estimate
is based on the fact that during the
first two weeks of the month the total
outlay for public and private building
was s92 100000, which is nearly as
much as for the entire month of
February.
Spring Outdoes P. w. A.
Evening star., 1934-03-28

The condition of things may be
measured from the following score
sheet. Each figure has had the sea-
sonal trend removed from it so it rep
resents the true percentage relation
ship to normal at the intervals stated
normal being l923-l925).
Evening star., 1934-03-28
Marriage License Issued.

LEONARDTOWN. Md, March %
(SpeciaD "A marriage license was is
sued here to Turner Ashby Burroughs,
80, and Rebecca Elizabeth Owens, both
of Mechanicsville. Nd.
Evening star., 1934-03-28
PUBLISHER DIES
William Wallis Was Identified
With Technical Journals.

w w
With Technical Journals.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., March %
R.-William Wallis, 66, vice presi-
dent of the Hitchcock Publishing Co.,
Chicago. and for years identified with
technical journal advertising, died yes
terday, following an illness of two
months.
Besides his widow, he is survived by
three sisters-Mrs. John w. Long of
Glen Ridge, N. j., wife of the editor
and publisher of the New York Trade
Journal; Mrs. John F. Downing,
Louisville, KY, and Mrs. Frank Wal
lace, Chatham, N. j.
Funeral services will be held here
today. Burial will be in Louis
vile, KY, Friday.
Evening star., 1934-03-28
WRIT SEEKS ALLIES.

BY the Associated Press.
GARY, Ind, March 2s.-Dr. VIII
liam A. Writ, educator. sought new
allies today 10 support his charges
Evening star., 1934-03-28
SUPPLY BILL FINISHED
Senate Approves House Changes
in Measure.

The Senate yesterday completed
congressional action on the $87,000.-
900 appropriation bill for the DEPART
ments of State, Justice, Commerce
and Labor. by concurring in minor
House changes.
Evening star., 1934-03-28
JOHNSON SETS UP
MACHINE TO PUSH
INDUSTRIAL CODES

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-03-28
0'HEARNE, BEST KNOWN
OF D. c. DRY VI0LATORS.
is LAST TO BE FREED

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-03-28
Spring Outd0es P. w. A.

All in all it certainly indicates that
the springtime urge to build Is work.
ing better than the public works pro-
gram.