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Evening star., 1935-04-09
Food Prices Out of Hand
As Nature Spurs 4. 4. A. Curb
Drought Joins in Conspiracy to Send
Costs Skyward-Pork Situation Most
Acute-Feedstuffs at Premium.

Local wholesale dealers are unable
to get the food stocks, especially
meats. they ask for.
Conspiracy of uncomfortable drought
with artificial economics of scarcity"
has leveled wheat fields to the small
est crop since 1890, made feed crops
SO high that farmers can give little to
their cows and other stock, reduced
hogs to such extent that the smallest
slaughter since 1911 was noted in
January and almost wiped the plains
clean Of beef cattle.
The humble pork chop is already
costly enough to serve on a gold plat
ter. Average countrywide price to-
day is 30.8 cents a pound. December
18 it cost 23l. December 10, 1893, it
cost 1913
According to the A. A. A.:
"One factor in reducing supplies of
hogs was of course the agricultural
adjustment program"
One million farmers have tenta-
lively signed corn-hog production
control contracts for the coming crop
year. Yet the A. A. A. declares.
Higher prices for pork and other
meats will be mainly result Of the
Continued on Page 3, Column 81
Evening star., 1935-04-09
AUTO LABOR HINTS
RUBBERSTR|KEA| AID
A. F. of L. Organizer Claims
Secret Vote in Favor
of WaIk0ut.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, April "a threat Of
sympathetic action by some automo-
bile workers if the United Rubber
Workers Union calls strike at Akron,
Ohio, injected a new element into the
Nations newest labor dispute today.
With automobile workers and labor
leaders closely watching the situation
in the Akron rubber factories, Francis
j. Dillon, general American Federation
of Labor organizer for the automobile
industry, said that any walkout Of
rubber workers will mean ''the auto
mobile workers will go out with them" ="
His assertion was made last night
in connection with pledge of full CO.
operation with the Akron rubber work.
ers now taking strike vote.
I'VE have taken our vote and We
have all the authority we need" Dillon
said.
Dillon did not explain the nature Of
the vote to which he referred. More
than month ago the A. F. of l..
called for a secret strike vote among
its 176 automobile locals, but the re-
suit has not been announced and 1t
was explained then that only the ma
tional officers of the federation were
authorized to issue strike call. Dillon
said then that the federation was dis
pleased with the methods of the Auto
mobile Labor Board in conducting col
lective bargaining elections.
The Automobile Labor Boards COM
pilations Of its collective bargaining
elections have indicated fewer than 10
per cent of the workers expressing
affiliation with the A. F. Of L. The
majority recorded afiliation with no
labor group.
Dillon said that his threat Of SYM
pathetic action in the rubber workers
dispute involved only those automobile
workers affiliated with the A. r. Of L.,
but he added, I'VE can stop the auto
mobile industry. We have contSol Of
enough key plants to do It,"
Dillon said he hoped that no drastic
action would be necessary and said he
wanted to do everything he could ito
avert what appears to be an impending
industrial crisis"
Automobile manufacturers mean
while indicated they were prepared for
any cutting of of their supply Of tires
and other rubber goods in event Of q
strike at Akron. Production officials
said the supply would have to be cut
of for more than two weeks to make
itself felt.
Evening star., 1935-04-09
.[YDDANE PROBERS.
ASK BANK RECORDS
May Subpoena Account in
Which Accused Woman
Is Guardian.

Plans to subpoena the record of
bank account in which Mrs. Anne
Lyddane is guardian were being made
today by police investigating the al
legged conspiracy to murder Mrs. Lyd-
danes husband and Mrs. Arthur
Beall, wife Of Darnestown garage
owner.
Authorities said they desire to ex-
anime the account to determine the
extent of Withdrawals made by the
pretty 29-year-old bank secretary,
who is said by detectives to have ad-
vanced funds to Washington under
world figures charged with her of
conspiring to carry out the dual mur-
der plot.
The disclosure that the subpoena
would be sought followed shortly
after States Attorney James H. Pugh
had prophesied that he and defense
counsel "are coming to blows yet"
over the latter's efforts to examine
statements allegedly made to police
by three men under arrest in the
case.
Developments in Case.
Other developments today were:
Announcement by authorities that
Harry E. Thomas, apprehended while
trying to flee from Washington, had
signed a statement in which he ad-
mitted receiving money from Mrs.
Lyddane to enter the alleged con-
spiracy.
The disclosure that efforts said to
have been made to hire a Washing
ton police informer to murder Francis
S. Lyddane, young Rockville book
keeper and husband of the bank sec
retary, had resulted in the expose Of
the alleged murder plot.
Police announced they had con-
tacted one of the two Washington
underworld characters sought as ad-
ditional witnesses in the case. Officers
had trailed him to several Eastern
cities during the past week and finally
located him this morning in a town
about 200 miles from the Capital. He
telegraphed his willingness to appear
as States witness.
Detectives said this morning that
they had made attempts to examine
the records of the bank account for
which Mrs. Lyddane is guardian. but
had been denied permission by bank
officials to do so.
They stated that the State now
planned to appeal to the Circuit
Court to subpoena the record for
their inspection regarding Withdraw
ais against the account.
Police declared they had questioned
Mrs. Lyddane at length regarding the
account and had been informed that
she had withdrawn funds, explaining
that Il have perfect right to do
this"
New Light on Case.
The disclosure of the stool pigeons"
part IN the investigation threw a new
light on the case, for detectives had
maintained from the first that the
plot had been revealed by Carnell's
talking too much"
Thomas statement regarding the
receipt of money from Mrs. Lyddane
was said to have been made to police
after prolonged questioning In the
Rockville Jail.
Friction Between Counsel.
Friction between States Attorney
Pugh and State Senator Prescott,
chief Of counsel for Mrs. Lyddane,
reached a climax yesterday when
Prescott called at Pugh's office and
personally requested permission to ex-
anime statements said to have been
made to police by Boland, Carnell,
Davis and several witnesses.
After refusing to let Prescott see
Evening star., 1935-04-09

"The slow but steady drop In
food prices Which began in Sep
ten1ber has continued into Decen,-
ber."-A. A. A. Consumers Guide,
December 81.
"Retdil price OF beef declined
slightly, continuing the dotOnward
trend begun in September."-A. A.
A. Consumers Guide, January II.
"MoSt of the expected rise in
food prices in general is probably
about oUer in uietD OF seasonal in
creases in food supplies as the neD
crops become GDailable. "A. A. A.
Consumers Guide, March II.
"The cost of food has about
reached its peak. Louis H. Bean,
A. A. A. economic adviser, March
II.
increases in the prices OF meat
pill probably maintain themselves
for some time in the future. DIR.
CdlUin Hoouer, A. A. A. Consumers
Counsel, April 8.
Specter of a severe shortage IN GER
tain foods, particularly meats, hoveree
over America today as the agricultural
brain trusters appeared to have los
control of their farm adjustment pro
gram.
Evening star., 1935-04-09
Hauptn,arn Claims Income Tax
Payment for '32 Vas Too High
Government Failed to Lay Any of Busi-
ness Profits to Isador Fisch, He Says
in Appeal for Reuie,0.

taxes totaling $4o50.72 and interest
totaling $22664.
Hauptmann charged the internal
revenue commissioner erred for 1892
Gin his failure to take cognizance of
capital contributions made by one,
Isador Fisch, partner of the petit
toner. in his failure to attribute there
to part Of any income reflected BY
the said brokerage accounts and in
his failure to allocate a proportion
ate part Of the alleged income to said
partner Of the petitioner, Bruno"
Another mistake, 1t was averred, was
in the ruling that the petitioners
bank account and brokerage accounts
brought them a profit of $5,441 and
that similar activities brought In $18,-
965 in 1893.
The petitioner set out also what
was described as the commissioners
failure to take cognizance Of capi-
tai contributions made to the fur
funds (of their purported partner
ship by Isador Fisch and In his fall
ure to allocate proportionate part Of
Continued on Page ., Column 81
Evening star., 1935-04-09
BY the Associated Press.


Bruno Richard Hauptmann, con-
victed slayer of the Lindbergh baby,
petitioned the Board of Tax Appeals
today for a determination Of Gov
ernment income tax claims, penalties
and interest totaling $9,678.
The petition declared the Bureau Of
Internal Revenue erred in computing
income from partnership dealings
with ISador FiSch, from whom, Haupt-
mann testified, he received the Lind
bergh ransom money found in his pos
session.
Hauptmann said complete accounts
of his negotiations with Fisch were
not available lowing to the seizure
and withholding" of his personal rec
ords during the criminal proceedings
at Pennington, N. j.. and Tren-
ton, N. J.
The petition was filed jointly in the
name of Hauptmann and his wife
Anna. Hauptmann had been assessed
income taxes totaling $5,400.94, PEN
alties for alleged failure to file an in
come tax return and for alleged
fraudulent attempt to evade income
Evening star., 1935-04-09
LAST RITES FRIDAY
FOR ADOLPH OCHS
Chattanooga Services Will
Precede New York Funeral
OF Publisher.
By the Associated Press.

.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April o.
Services for Adolph Ochs, publisher
Of the New York Times, will be held
here tomorrow in the Julius and
Bertha Ochs Memorial Temple, which
the publisher erected in honor Of his
parents. The funeral will be In New
York Friday.
Mr.. Ochs died Of a cerebral hemor-
rhage yesterday at the age Of II.
The New York funeral Friday will
be conducted from Temple Emanuel
Fifth avenue and Sixty-fifth street,
at 1890 am. and burial will be at
Mount Hope, N. Y.
Rabbi Abraham Feinstein and Rev.
DR.. T. S. McCallie, pastor Of the Cen
| trail Presbyterian Church OF Chat
| tanooga, will of1ciate in the services
here at $50 am. tomorrow. The
body will be taken to New York on
the IL am. train.
Won National Acclaim.
The journey his body will take In
death will be the same Mr. Ochs took
| when. as q young man who had built
the Chattanooga Times into one of
the South's leading newspapers, he
set out to the task Of rebuilding the
New York Times.
In his larger work he snatched the
New York paper from financial dis
aster and, in its direction, won acclaim
as q genius Of American journalism.
Mr.. Ochs was stricken as he sat al
luncheon with q group of friends and
relatives. He lost consciousness and
wasetaken to sanitarium, where foul
hours later he died without regainins
consciousness.
After the news Of his passing there
came worldwide tribute. In Wash
ington leaders in the Government
stopped to do him honor and to cal
attention to his contributions tc
American journalism.
Legislature Pays Tribute.
The, Tennessee Legislature. in q
night session, paused out of respect
to the man who began as q printers
devil' in Tennessee.
AAAo kkAAd4ACAAOP1CS dIlQ WOTkS IN INT
public interest were hailed in many
quarters.
When Mr. Ochs took the helm Of
the New York Times it had passet
through the financial straits of 1ss;
and had come out q crippled concern
He reorganized it and instituted 9
new plan Of financing.
When he assumed control the Times
had about 100 employees, a circulation
of less than 10000 daily and groS
annual receipts of approximately
$500,000. In 1928 the employees mum.
bered in excess Of 5000, daily circu.
lation exceeded 100000 and SUNDAY
sales 100000. Annual receipts exceed.
ed $25 ,000, 900. In 1884 the weekday
circulation averaged 466,470 and Sun
day 716,135.
Awarded Journalism Medal.
A year before the fiftieth anniver.
sary Of his entrance into the publish.
ing field he was awarded the golt
medal of the National Institute oi
Social Science "for maintaining anc
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column ID
Evening star., 1935-04-09
RESCUE VESSEL SIGHTS
FREIGHTER IN DISTRESS
Ship Is Reported 200 Miles Due
East of Newfoundland With
Hold Filling.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April 9.-Shortly after
the freighter Badagry sent out an
s o S, the S. s. Newfoundland re-
ported she had sighted the distressed
vessel
I'VE are now In sight Of the steamer
Badagry," the message from the New
foundland said, "and will advise
further any details"
The Badagry, a British freighter Of
5,161 gross tonnage. wirelessed that
her hold was filling rapidly" She
is about 200 miles due east Of st.
Johns, Newfoundland.
The messages were picked up by the
r. G. A. station at Chatham, Mass.
Evening star., 1935-04-09
TULSA GRAND JURORS
SIFT SLAYING EVIDENCE
Signers of Petition for Probe of
Gorrell Case Ready to
Tell Facts.
Nv tina Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, April 9.-Runors
and stories concerning the death Of
two prominent Tulsa youths were
sifted today by a county grand jury.
Among those who will appear to
tell what they know or have heard
about the Staying of John Gorrell,
23-year-old dental student, last
Thanksgiving night, and the nysteri-
Gus shooting of his friend. Sidney
Born, jr., 10. 10 days later were the
l80 persons who signed the petition
calling the jury.
Phil Kennamer, i9-year-old son Of
Federal Judge Franklin Z. Kenna-
mer, Is serving o 25-year sentence
for n1anslaughter In connection with
Gorrell's death.
Evening star., 1935-04-09
TWO NATIONS BUY
GOLD FROM U. S.
Mexico and Venezuela Acquire
125,9O0 0uncea-Dollar
Value 81, ,40e, 500.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Sales to Mexico and Venezuela Of
125, 800 ounces of gold, with o dollar
value Of $4.406, 500, were announced
yesterday by Secretary Morgenthau.
The Bank Of Mexico got its third
license for 80 300 ounces of the metal,
while Venezuela stepped into the
American market for the first time
with a purchase of $4,000 ounces,
aiygregating about $4,000. 600.
The latter purchase was for the
account Of the Central Bank-"Banco
de Venezuela Of Caracas"-and will
be paid for with drafts on New York
City built UP In customary commercial
transactions. Morgenthau said Vene-
zuela might ask this Government to
mint the metal.
Mexico's purchase, which was the
third within the last month, brought
total purchases by that country to
123,2o0 ounces, amounting to about
4,3l2,000.
Evening star., 1935-04-09
Quake Rocks Near East Area.

ISTANBUL. April o CP.-A violent
earthquake occurred today In the vi
cinity of the Sea Of Marmora. Three
strong shocks have been felt IN Is
tanbul within the past "a hours.
Evening star., 1935-04-09

Continued on Page 8, Column 81
Evening star., 1935-04-09

co. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast)
Partly cloudy and continued cold, with
lowest temperature about IS degrees to-
night: tomorrow fair and not so cold.
Temperatures-Highe AZ, at pm.
yesterday; lowest, 80, at $50 am. today.
Full report on page A-e.
Evening star., 1935-08-28
JAPANESE ASSURE
ARMS TO SELASS|E
Ethiopian Foreign Office
Says Six-Month Supply
Has Been Arranged.

Adds ABABA, August 20 (N.A.
N.A).-Arms shipments sufficient to
meet the needs of Ethiopia for six
months have been arranged with
Japan.
This definite assurance was given
by an official at the witchkidine,
or foreign ministry office. The ship
ments will include rifles, machine
guns, revolvers and ammunition.
Whether larger arms wnl be sent
could not be learned, but 1t was un-
derstood that this Is not likely, as
heavy guns are not considered vital
under the Emperor's present plan Of
campaign.
With arms on the way from Japan.
the business Of war-making becomes
more and more involved in Adds
Ababa. Trench and other defense
construction plans continue, but war
riors who hoped the rains would soon
cease now cheer the daily downpour.
The longer it rains, the longer the
delay, and the longer the delay, the
nearer come the rifles from Japan.
(Copyrisht. 1898. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1935-08-28
MARC0N| TO SPEED
ITALIAN MESSAGES.
Enlistment Kept Secret
Until After "Trip to
Brazil.
Ry the Associated Press.

by the hSSOClatcu FIcoSs
GENOA, August 28.-Guglielmo
Marconi, inventor of wireless telegra-
ply, will direct the telegraph, tele-
phone and wireless communications
of Mussolini's armies in East Africa,
intimates of the inventor said today.
They said Marconi had already
volunteered for East African service,
but his enlistment has not yet been
published because he plans to go
to Brazil first as that nations guest
at the Inauguration of an ultra
powerful radio station at Santos.
He will sail for Brazil September
10 in the steamer Augustus. After
q Today sojourn he will return to
don the uniform of a naval captain,
q rank he holds from past service.
Marconi, his intimates added, ex-
poets to be transferred to the Naval
Engineering Corps, where his elec-
trical wizardry would be most useful
to the land forces.
Marconi has just returned here
from Rome, where he conducted ex-
periments of the micro-wave, which
he has already made famous.
He declined to make a statement
concerning experiments he is re-
ported to have made with the radio
wave capable Of paralyzing the igni-
ton system Of airplanes while in
flight.
Evening star., 1935-08-28
This Changing World
Soviet Statesmen Forget Diplomatic Niceties
When World Revolution
Is Discussed.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The Soviet government is another
edition of DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde.
In international relations at Ge-
neva and elsewhere Stain Litvinoff
& Co. are like other heads of state
and foreign ministers. They use the
stereotyped good will sentences and
talk like statesmen and diplomats
But when the question OF world
revolution is raised at the gatherings
of the Third Internationale they
abandon their role of "excellencies, 4"
the niceties of international diplo-
macy, the frock coats and silk hats.
They don the red blouse, let their
boards grow and plunge with the
other revolutionaries in planning plots
to overthrow the existing social
order.
And this is quite natural. The
leaders of the Soviet Republics are
real revolutionaries and not parlor
Bolshevists. Until a few years ago
they have been bounded by political
police, they have been kicked about,
threatened and prosecuted.
when they became the heads OF
one OF the biggest countries in the
Dorld and recetved dduldtion from
mighty potDers like France and -
Great Britain, to say nothing OF
other minor states, they liked it.
Cduidr, champagne and other nice
ties OF life, such as solemn recep-
tions and fuss made about their
personalities, appealed to them.
They lulled themselves into the
idea that they are masters OF their
o10n deStinies and could do ,Dl,dt-
ever they Ddnted.
But they were soon brought back
to the sense of reality.
The Third Internationale, meeting
In Moscow, discussed the question of
a world revolution. The revolution
ary blood in all the Soviet leaders
is stronger than the pleasant life
Evening star., 1935-08-28
British Labor Restive-Spain and
Latvia Back England's Policy.


Latvia Back England's Policy.
LONDON, August % (P.-Labor
movements against italy in her con-
fiict with Ethiopia and the backing Of
two foreign nations for Great Britain'S
peace campaign at Geneva were re-
ported today.
Meanwhile, the British war Office,
a military source stated today, has
ordered all senior members of the
Army Council to remain in the vicinity
of London and to take no more holi-
days until further notice.
British and continental labor lead
ers were said to be considering joint
action by general strikes throughout
Europe and by boycotts to hamper
Italian war moves.
Ambassador Ramon Perez de Ayala
of Spain and Charles Zarine, the Min
lister of Latvia, were indicated by in
formed quarters to have assured the
British government that their govern
ments will support the British policy
at Geneva in the council session Sep
tember 4.
Hoare and Pope Confer.
At the same time. Sir Samuel Hoare,
foreign secretary. discussed the gen.
eral European situation with Senator
James P. Pope, Democrat. of Idaho,
and reviewed problems of the domin-
ions with Stanley M. Bruce, high COM
missioner for Australia.
It was understood the Spanish and
Latvian ENJOYS, in separate confer
ences with Anthony Eden, minister
for League of Nations affairs, dis
cussed the dispute as it concerns their
countries.
1t was suggested that the situation
at Gibraltar, where the British are
strengthening defenses, formed part
of the conversations with Ambassa-
dor Perez.
Senator Pope's visit, the foreign
Office emphasized, was entirely private.
It was stated that Ray Atherton, the
United States charge d'affaires, in
troduced him to Sir Samuel and it
was announced that no communlca-
ton or statement of an official char
acter entered into their conversation.
Gesture to Britain Forecast.
The Daily Mail today quoted Mus
solini as saying:
After the cabinet council session
the Italian government will publish
declaration announcing its complete
readiness to respect all rights o: the
British Empire"
In the interests Of world peace, the
paper added, "the British government
might we'll consider whether it would
not be wise to transfer to Germany
territories which at present are held
under the direct mandate of Britain"
Reports from Rome and informed
quarters here indicated that Mussolini
would attempt an indictment of
Ethiopia as treaty breaker at the
League Council and follow it by de-
Evening star., 1935-08-28

The British are experiencing at
present sense OF helplessness. For
centuries Britannia has been used to
rule the seas and at her frowning
every nation stood up and took
notice.
To see her well known frown
Haunted by Italy is a heavy blow to
her pride. But facts are facts and
the British, always practical, are ready
to bow to the inevitable.
The display Of force Of the British
Navy, which a few years ago would
have spread terror in Italy, is having
no effect nowadays.
II Duce treats it Hoht-hedrtedly.
The truth is that the famous Brit
ish bases at Gibraltar and Malta,
inDulnerable as long as the battle
ship tCds supreme, are now er-
trsmely Vulnerable. A i0elI orgGn-
ICED and powerful air force could
ruin them in no time. And the
Italians haze that air force.
There Is no doubt that If 1t came
to war between italy and Great
Britain the former would be defeated
in the long run. But Downing Street
realizes only too well what such a
war would mean to the rest of the
world, and after having shown force
it will allow Italy to do whatever she
pleases.
In order to avoid friction with
Great Britain II Duce has promised
not to enforce blockade on Ethiopia.
BY this, Mussolini really does not
make any concessions to the Ethio-
plans. They have no money and no
credit-hence there is not much that
foreign vessels. can transport to them