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Evening star., 1935-10-30
100000 lob AIM
SPURR|NG HOPKINS
W. P. A. Head Driving Staff
to Assure End of Relief
December |.

Under the necessity Of creating O.
100000 more jobs within the next
month. Harry L. Hopkins, Works
Progress administrator, was spurring
his huge staff to greater efforts to-
day in order to fulfill the assurances
given President Roosevelt that he
would be able TO stop all direct relief
by December /.
The President discussed the pres
ent program and the future Of relief
yesterday with Hopkins and Harold L.
Ickes, public works administrator, but
came to no conclusions as to the
amount that would be included in the
new budget.
S430,000 to d. c. Credit.
The direct upshot of the White
House conference will be another
scramble to get Controller General
McCarl to release the remainder of
the work-relief funds in the Treasury.
A check today showed the District Of
Columbia still has s43o, 900 to its credit
in the Treasury. which has yet to be
advanced to Commissioner George E.
Allen.
1t was revealed today that Allen
has accounted for every cent that
the President and McCarl have
released for employment in the
District, $3,234822. but the District
quota in the Treasury has not all
been conveyed. In project value the
entire program submitted by the
District administrator totaled Sl3,-
003,555.
Hopkins confidently assured the
President that the work-relief drive
would reach the 3,50o,0oo Job goal
by December l, permitting liquidation
of the relief administration.
With six States already of direct
relief, the remainder are to receive
November grants while Hopkins hunts
for the $1,000 jobs a Gay necessary
to attain his ultimate goal.
Ickes Won't Predict.
On the other hand, Ickes, with his
usual caution, refused to join in pre-
dictions. Asked about Hopkins recent
assertion that next years relief pro-
gram would not swing back 10 the
dole, the Public Works administrator
would say only. I'm always very short
of predictions"
New difficulties arose today in the
path Of the p. w. A program. Ickes
warned that unless all P. w. A. prof.
ects were under way by December IS,
the deadline fixed by the President for
start of all works relief projects un-
der contract. funds would go else
where, except under unusual circum-
stances. Controller General McCarl
also was disclosed to have declined
P. w. A. allotments for highway con-
struction If they are located on Fed
eral aid systems.
Evening star., 1935-10-30

Rural sales show a greater increase
than the city department stores. The
adjusted rural index for September
was 1875 per cent of the l929-l931
averages. A year ago the index was
98.8 per cent. Total sales we're larger
this September than for any period
since 1929. The experts here say this
is due to the good price level and
larger crops, rather than the benefit
payments.
City department stores sold IL
per cent more the first halt OF Oc-
tober than they did last year.
Their price leuel ,pds up about
point from S5.7 in August to S6.6
in September.
Any one who is waiting for the
railroads to come back had better
take q chair. The freight loadings
index is the only basic factor which
failed to show q further approach to
normality this year. At 64 per cent
it is far better of than building at
43 per cent, although its immediate
prospects are not as bright. However,
miscellaneous loadings have lately in
creased. This classification repre-
sents the more active movement Of
business goods.
Prices Leveling on.
The passing Of the European war
scare will relax the tnfiationary pres
sure on prices. The current trend is
toward a slight leveling OF. Copper,
chemicals and wheat are what forced
the index up during September. There
has been no substantial change lately
in general retail prices, or in foods.
Confidential Government figures in
dicate an improvement in employment
for every month since January. The
Ayers index excepts one month. the
A. F. Of L. two. It is obvious again
that unemployment figures are not
moving in unison with employment
and relief statistics.
Apparently, people are living more
transparently. The activity in plate
glass production Is phenomenal. Pro-
Evening star., 1935-10-30
Edison's Widow and PLAYMATE
Of Childhood Are Married
E. E. Hughes Is Retired
Steel Man-Both IL,
Early 7Os.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y, october 80.
Mrs. Nina Miller Edison, widow of
the inventor, and Edward E. Hughes
Of Franklin, Pa, childhood friends,
were married at noon today to the
strains Of a wedding march from
Chautauqua's bell tower.
Rev. Arthur H. Brown, a Methodist
minister from East Orange. N. j., Mrs.
Edison's home, performed the cere-
mony.
The couple left on a motor trip Of
several months, but they would not
reveal where they were going.
Mrs. Edison has been coming to
Chautauqua Institution since 1t was
founded in 1874 by her father, Lewis
Miller, an Akron, Ohio, manufacturer,
and DR.. John H. Vincent, later Metho-
dist bishop.
The Miller and Hughes cottages
we're only q few doors from each other
and the boy and the girl became fast
friends. She married the famous in
ventor in 1886. He died in 1881. Mr..
Hughes wife died in 1882 and later
the childhood friendship was renewed.
Both are In the early 7os.
Only immediate members Of the
Edison and the Hughes families and
q few close friends were present.
Among the guests were Mrs. Halbert
K. Hitchcock of Pittsburgh, sister Of
Mrs Edison. and brother, Edward
Miller of Akron, Ohio.
Mrs. Edison wore simple white
chiffon gown and the cottage was
decorated in white roses and white
chrYanthemuns. There were no at
tendants. Whether the couple would
live at the Edison home in East Orange
or at the home of Hughes in Franklin
was not revealed. The bridegroom Is
. wealthy retired steel manufacturer
and lawyer.
Evening star., 1935-10-30
M|[|T|APATRO[S
MINE RIOT SCENE
Kentucky Machine Gun Unit
on Duty in Warrington
After Battle.
b. the Associated Press.

MANNINGTON, KY, October 30
National Guardsmen patrolled the
Williams mine here today. scene Of a
bloody, one-sided BATTLE late yesterday
between mine guards and band OF
some 600 to 700 union sympathizers.
One man, Enos Martin, 81, of Crof-
ton. KY, was reported dying from a
gunshot wound received during the
encounter He was one of the band
of marchers who swarmed toward the
mine entrance in defiance of an
order to halt.
The invaders were quickly routed
by a fusillade OF machine gun fire
and tear gas bombs. Eight or ten men
fell from wounds in hands and feet.
Martin, and Henry Hollins, 65, colored.
were taken to hospitals with body
wounds. Hollins' condition was not
regarded as serious.
Promise to Come Back.
Members of the band OF marehers,
who expressed determination to get
in the mine and talk union" to
the non-union employees, said they
would come back "as soon as the boys
in the tin hats are gone"
Representatives of the mine owners
in Western Kentucky who have not
been operating under United Mine
Workers of America contracts. how.
ever. expressed equal determination
to keep the organizers of their
property.
Referring to the march" one
spokesman for non-union operating
concern said, they'll get the same
kind OF reception If they try to get
on our property
The band of marchers In yester-
days encounter came fiom nearby
Muhlenberg County. where a ma ajority
OF the coal miners belong 10 the United
Mine Workers of America.
Charge Forcible Exclusion.
Leaders of this organization claim
that in the past they have been
forcibly kept from getting a foothold
in Kentucky. both in the soft-coal
mines of the west section and in
lne Eastern kentucky mountains, by
combination of local authorities
and the mine owners.
John L Lewis. national president
OF the United Mine Workers. in ad-
dressing political gathering at Pike
vile Monday, said that Kentucky had
been set free" during the Roosevelt
administration from anti-union forces
that prevented ''peaceable assembly,
except in Harlan County.
Mine Supt. Kenneth Snarr related
that the battle yesterday was pre-
cipltated when two of the marchers
fired pistols. c. M. Morgan of
Graham. who suffered gas burns on
the hands and face. declared that
none Of the demonstrators fired a
shot.
Evening star., 1935-10-30
COURT KEEPS Boy;
WOMAN SCREAMS
Mrs. Muench Elected From
Court, Shouting "Nero!
Nero!" at Judge.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, October 30.-Mrs. Nellie
Upton Muench. central figure In a
parentage dispute over l0-week- ole
gift Of God" baby. was elected from
the Circuit Court Of Appeals today as
she screamed her defiance of a court
order that the baby be held as evi-
dence.
The former st. Louis society woman,
whose right to the infant has been
questioned by Anna Ware, an unwed
servant girl who claims it as her own.
brought the child to court today in
compliance with an order.
A few minutes after she ran the
gantlet Of boos from spectators and
seated herself in the court room with
the child, Presiding Judge William
Dee Becker. who assumed charge OF
the case previously handled by a spe-
cial commissioner. ordered the infant
held as evidence, to be kept in a hos
pital when 1t was not in court, and
not to be viewed by either Mrs.
Muench or Anna Ware.
Woman Ordered Out.
As he read the order Mrs Muench
leaped to her feet. screaming, Don t
do 1t. You can't do it, you can't, you
can't"
Making himself heard over her
screams, Judge Becker turned to court
attaches and ordered. Take her out,
Mr.. Marshal. Take that woman out
Of the court room. absolutely"
Uniformed police led the still
screaming Mrs. Muench from the
court room. They've taken my baby.
Nero! Nero!" she shouted as she was
led TO small Office of the court room.
She continued to weep loudly in the
ante room and she could be heard in
the court room.
Meanwhile the baby, in custody of
a nurse employed by the court, vas
taken to another ante room, there to
be viewed by witnesses in the case.
Birth in Dispute.
Mrs. Muench announced the birth
of her son. calling it gift from God
in my time Of despair" the morning
OF August l8. At the time she was
preparing her successful defense
against kidnapping charge.
Investigators learned a child had
been born to Anna Ware and taken
from her the night Of August II. a
few hours before the birth was an
nounced in the Muench home A sub
sequent grand jury investigation led
to the present case, wherein Miss
Ware, through habeas corpus ap-
plication, claimed as her own the in
FAINT who has been In the fashionable
Muench home.
What tests would be made Of the
child. and whether 1t would be held
in custody Of the court pending ruling
on its parentage. could not be foretold.
1t was expected Miss Wares counsel
would ask for photographing and
fingerprinting Of the baby and also for
tests to determine If its hair had been
dyed.
Evening star., 1935-10-30
Warming

In response to inquiries from
merchants and citizens who have
been solicited for advertisements
in an 'Oficial' Halloween Pro-
gram" the Washington Board
OF Trade, which is sponsoring
this celebration through its
Greater National Capital Com
mittee, announces that 1t has
not-nor will it-produce a
printed program in connection
Herewith and solicitations by
the Washington Board of Trade
for advertisements In this, or
any other program, Is distinctly
against its policy.
Further. the Washington Board
of Trade is in no way connected
with appeals to the public for
the support Of private benefits Of
any kind.
Evening star., 1935-10-30

What has happened specifically to
fill in the business gaps lately is the
improvement in durable goods. There
was no sign of a let-up in their de-
preston until June. Since then ma
chine tools have picked up. as have
cement, lumber, all building materials
Also cotton consumption troubles are
being smoothed over. That index was
up 10 points. from IS in August to
95 in Septembers. Oficial figures will
shortly be issued showing further
increase in October.
Iron and steel actipity continues
fairly strong in an ertrd- seasonal
range. There uiu be no substan-
tial decrease in steel because auto
mobile production now is moving
fast. Auto output for October wiu
to twice that OF September.
Little change has been noticeable in
bituminous coal production an
thracite is up with belated seasonal
rise &. non-durable like tobacco show
no change :. leather and shoes reg
istered less than seasonal increases
during the last go days.
Evening star., 1935-10-30
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Business Is More Solid
Than at Any Time in
Last Five Years.
BY PAUL MALLON.

TINE background behind the cur
rent business improvement ap-
pears to be solid. There are
4 no sensational seasonal surges
in particular lines to make them stand
out temporarily like roses In October.
Nor are there quicksands and holes
marking lags and declines.
The bas-relief map Of business Is
smoother than at any time since the
depression started. 1t appears to have
balance and strength beyond any dis
cernible in five years.
At least this Is the obvious con-
clusion from the Governments own
business chart, which attempts to bal
ance business like a carpenters level.
Production at 81 Per Cent.
The chart indicates industrial pro-
duction now is around 81 per cent
normal, which is just about the same
relation to normality existing last jan
uary. But what Is different now Is
that, since January. factory employ
ment has improved from 80 to 81.
pay rolls from "a to IA. department
store sales 70 to 81. building 27 to 43
and prices 1873 to 806.
In simple words, the basis for
further improvement has been
laid Bigger pay rolls mean the
people 1r,ll hare more money to
buy When this factor Is coupled
NTH a brisk improvement in store
sales, a fre months strong rise in
residential building and frmer
prices it means that all tho cur
rent uplitt stories really hdue
something behind them at last.
Evening star., 1935-10-30
WELL" BABY THRIVING
Mother Progressing Following
Birth Below Earth's Surface,

SANFORD. N. c., October 80 CP).-
Franklin Woodrow Jordan, the baby
born under water In a we'll, was
8 days old today and DR. J. F. Foster,
the family physician, said he was
thriving normally.
He and his mother, Mrs. Alton L.
Jordan, 26-year-old wife Of q Lee
County farmer. have returned home
from the county hospital here. Mrs.
Jordan was reported by DR.. Foster
to be progressing satisfactorily.
DR.. Foster himself was engaged in
preparing for medical journals an
account Of one Of the most remarkable
births recorded. While drawing water
from well last Tuesday, Mrs. Jor-
dan tainted and fell into it. Before
her husband discovered her As minutes
later feebly struggling to keep her
head above water. she had given birth
to q son..
Evening star., 1935-10-30
SHIP FIRE CURBED

BOSTON, October 80 P).-Fire
aboard her apparently under control
the steamer Exarch was proceeding
on her course today.
Capt. B. A. Jacobsen. her master
reported her afire yesterday approx
imately 750 miles east Of New York
and asked vessels in the vicinity to
stand by. There was no request for
assistance and later wireless advices
reported the fire under temporary
control"
Evening star., 1935-10-30

across the COntl-
nent WREN he dis
covered he was
through for ever
with running for
office. And out
here We were try
ing so hard to
keep it from him
Just a little while
longer!
When they have
10 organic trdI-
fc laws to keep
wild geese from
committing unin-
territorial suicide
in Niagara Falls,
Evening star., 1935-10-30
Program Four Years Old.

October brought the fourth birthday
anniversary Of Aunt Sue and Polly,
one Of Washington's Oldest radio pro-
grams. A feature of the occasion was
the radio address of J. A. Eisenbeiss.
president of the Charles Schneider
Baking Co. who also officiated at the
cutting of the huge Illuminated birth.
day cake.
Evening star., 1935-10-30
|U.S. CHARGES APP.
WITH CONSPIRACY
Accused of Maintaining
Dummy" Brokerage and
Collecting Fees.
Nv tb.ASxo,j.,.d p-...

By the Associated Press.
Conspiracy to maintain dummy"
brokerage ofice for the purchase Of
meats, in violation Of the law has
been charged against the Great
Atlantic l. Pacific Tea Co. by the Sec
retary of Agriculture in an Official
proceeding under the packers and
stockyards act.
The complaint. disclosed today,
charges that c. J. Noell, described as
a salaried employe of the A. l. P,
has been collecting brokerage fees"
on meat and meat products purchased
from packing houses, not only by A.
e. p, but by some of its competitors,
and turning the net OF these collec.
tions into the A. l. p treasury. Dur
ing this time, according to the CON-
plant, NOEL has been representing
himself falsely as an independent
broker.
1t Is charged that this is violation
OF a section of the act which make it
unlawful for ANY packer" to engage
in any deceptive practice or device"
IN commerce, the complaint arguing
that the A. e. P. is packer" under
the definition in the law.
Hearing Scheduled Here.
The respondent corporation. main
tanning chain stores in MANY cities
throughout the country. is a MARYLAND
corporation, with headquarters in Bal
tlmore. 1t was given until November
ii 10 answer the charges and a hear
ing was set for December 2 in Wash
lngton. The citation was signed on
October 81 by Assistant Secretary NJ.
L. Wilson as Acting Secretary of Asrt-
culture.
Among other things, the complaint
alleges:
That NOEL has been for many year,
and still is an employe OF A. e.. P,
actively engaged in respondents
service"
That A. g. p. "conspired and ar.
ranged with NOEL to falsely repre-
sent" himself as en- independents
broker
That subsequent TO January I,
1882, NOEL has received orders from
various packers, including persons
competing with A. g. P. in retail
selling.
Claims Fees Went to A. & p.
That Noell collected /, 2 and 3 per
cent in fees on such sales, all of which
he RENTED 10 A. g. P, except for the
amount OF his salary and Office ex.
penSes.
This, says the complaint, also vio-
lated another section Of the act which
makes it unlawful TO establish any
undue or reasonable preference or ad-
vantage" in trade practices.
BY and through the operation Of
the said arrangement" says the CON-
plant, the respondent did buy large
quantities of meat and meat food
products from such packers at prices
less than were paid by other persons
in competition with respondent who
bought their meat and meat food
products through Noell, in that re-
spondent knew that Noell would not
and did not remit to its competitors
meat and meat food prod
ucts through him any part of the
brokerage fees received by him On
sales made by him to them"
The law provides that when the
Secretary of Agriculture finds there
mas been a violation of the law he
shall, after hearing. issue an order to
cease and desist" from the practice
complained of; and that this order
shall be final and conclusive" unless
reversed by the courts.
Evening star., 1935-10-30
Men Outnumber Goods.

FORT COLLINGS, Colo. CP).-Col-
orado State College goods are worry
ing more about how to keep their
dates separated than where the dates
are to come from. on account of the
ratio of man to woman students is
approximately to I. There are 1850
masculine students, 456 women.
Evening star., 1935-10-30
WIFE ASKS DIVORCE

L. v. Coleman of Washington Is
Charged With Desertion.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, October So
Laurence v. Coleman of Washington
is named defendant in a suit for an
absolute divorce filed in the Circuit
Court here by MARITIME w. Coleman Of
this county, who charges she was de-
serted June %, 1882.
The petition sets forth that the
couple were married June %. 1917,
and have three children: Kenyon.
II; Frank Thaddeus, II, and Richard
Pratt, 8. The plaintiff asks to bs
awarded custody of the youngest child.
Evening star., 1935-10-30
POST OFFERED JOHNSON

NEW YORK, October 80 P,.-Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson was described today
as favorable to an invitation to be-
come car Of the dress industry
rendered by Samuel Oxhorn. presi-
dent of the United Dress Manufac-
turers' Association.
Two thousand contractors produc-
ing 80 to IS per cent of the dresses in
the metropolitan area are members.
Reports placed the offered remuner-
alton at 5000 year Oxhorn said
he expected q definite decision in a
day or two.
Evening star., 1935-10-30
PRESIDENT LEAVES
CAPITAL TONIGHT
Due to Remain at His Hyde
Park Home About a
Week.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG

President Roosevelt will leave Wash
ington on a special train late tonight
for his home at Hyde Park, N. Y,
where he will remain until after cleo
ton day, November S.
The Presidents visit will be divided
between work and rest. He will take
with him a skeleton force of assist
ants, which will include Stephen
Early, one of his secretaries; Miss
Marguerite lie Hand. his personal sec
retary: Miss Grace Tully Henry Kan
ney and Miss Dorothy Jones of the
executive staff. and Miss Louise Hack
meister and E. w. Smithers of the
White House telephone and telegraph
division.
Preparatory to his getting away
tonight. President Roosevelt was en-
gagged in clearing his desk of as much
routine business as possible and with
conferences with department assis-
tants. The most important confer
ence was one scheduled this afternoon
with Secretary of the Treasury Nor
ganthau and E. w. Bell, acting budget
director. This will be the second con-
ference on the budget the President
has held with these two officials this
week
During the morning Mr.. Roosevelt
heard from Rudolf S. Hecht. presi-
dent of the American Bankers As
sociation, that general business sta
tiStics continue to show an increase
in activity"
The banker, in turn, asked the Pres
ident TO diminish Government activ-
tiles in the financial field as fast as
conditions permit.
Asked about the Presidents reaction.
Hecht recalled that Mr.. Roosevelt &
year ago had talked of less Federal
financial operations and he expressed
belief the Chief Executive still favored
this.
No Engagements Made.
Mr.. Roosevelt has made no engage
ments thus far to confer with any Of
his cabinet members or administration
heads at Hyde Park, but it is expected
that before he returns to Washington
he will send for at least two or three
of these.
The President will cast his ballot
In the village Of Hyde Park next
Tuesday, and he is now watching with
interest the campaign being con-
Quoted in his native State by the
Democrats to maintain their present
control Of the New York Assembly.
While this election is Of little gen.
eral interest outside of the State, the
outcome will be looked upon as being
of considerable significance if the
Democrats should lose. The event
would be heralded as a forerunner of
what might be expected to follow in
November. 1896.
Mrs. Roosevelt. who Is In Chicago
today, will join her husband in Hyde
Park Sunday.
Evening star., 1935-10-30


OF applying an eventual blockade will
fall, are still worried about the at
titude Of the United States in case
the British fleet should receive a
mandate from the League of Nations
to prevent, by force If necessary. the
shipping Of all kinds of commodities
into Italy. Ethiopia does not come
into consideration since all her wants
can be supplied from Europe, as the
League has lifted all restrictions
against her.
The restatement Of policy by the
Secretary Of State is necessarily in
terpreted a. q gesture to indicate this
country will not be In the way of
any sanctions the League may con-
slider itself compelled to apply.
Evening star., 1935-10-30
G. A. R. CHEF OF STAFF.
J. H. CAMPBELL, DIES
1llinoisan, 80, Was Wounded in
Action in lS65-Retired Prom
Business in 1925.

By tn. Associated Press.
CHICAGO. October 3o-James H.
Campbell, national chief of staf of
the Grand Army Of the Republic, died
here yesterday at the age Of SO.
He also was holding the position of
grand marshal of the G. A. R. Memo
rial Association. From 1881 to 1888
he was commander Of the Illinois De-
partment. He bore the title Of colonel
in the G. A. R.
Campbell joined the 47th New York
Volunteers at Oswego, N. Y, in 1865,
and was wounded in action the same
year. Mustered out shortly before the
end Of the war, he came to Chicago,
later going to Joliet. III. Campbell re-
tired from business in 1925.