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Evening star., 1936-04-26
COAL TEST RULING
MAY GIVE CUE ON
REVIVAL Of n. R. A.
Possibility of Court Decision
Tomorrow Spurs Interest
in Code Proposals.
BY FREDERICK GARDNER,

Eyes in business quarters again are
turned toward the Supreme Court on
the lookout for signs of a reincarna-
ton of the Blue Eagle.
The possibility of a decision to-
morrow in the test of the Guffey
soft coal control act has spurred
the interest of business leaders in
other legislation pending in Congress
for Federal regulation of industry
reminiscent in many ways Of N. r. A.
codes.
Reading between the lines of re-
cent utterances of President Roose-
welt, coupled with bills seeking con-
gressional approval, some spokes-
men for industrial groups profess to
have seen shades of the Blue Eagle,
N. r. AS symbolical bird, hovering
over the Capital. waiting to take
modified but tangible shape as soon
as conditions are favorable.
Regulation at Stake.
What the Supreme Court rules in
the coal control test is expected to
influence new moves for revival Of
Federal regulation of working condi-
tions and trade practices.
Since the court upset the N. r. A.
codes last May. various legislative
proposals, mostly lying dormant in
committees, have been regarded as
designed to repair, in one way or
another. the broken control lines.
Outstanding in current interest is
a bill for regulation of the textile
industry, patterned in many respects
after the coal control act. Like the
Guffey act, the Ellenbogen bill in
textiles aims to set up national COM
mission to rule a highly competitive
industry, complicated by a diversity
of producing units and knotty labor
problems.
New Campaign Talked.
Legislation for restriction of hours
of work, Federal licensing of corpora
tions and regulation of working con-
ditions for concerns holding Govern
ment contracts also remain in the
background, with the possibility
another drive toward N. r. A. goals
might bring them to the fore.
The reasoning in some business
quarters is that if the Supreme Court
upholds the coal control then sup
porters of the textile measure would
be encouraged to press for action in
this session.
Congressional observers point out,
however, that taxes and relief ap-
preparations have the inside track for
the rest Of this session. Chances of
other important controversial lcgis-
lation commanding a vote before ad-
journment are considered small, ex-
cept for possible coal control sub
stitute in the event the Guffey act
meets the Blue Eagles fate.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
FOCARTY SEES CONFLICT
in NEW DEAL THEORIES
North American Co. Head Declares
Tax Plans and Attitude Toward
Dividends Are Opposed.

substantial taxes on undistributed
earnings.
Fogarty said the company's coal
costs would be boosted sharply If the
Guffey coal bill was held Constitu-
tional. It would add between Is and
20 cents per ton, he declared.
The company reported consolidated
net income Of $12,458, ,485 for the IL
months ended March 81 after all
charges, including preferred dividends,
This was equal to $l.45 a share on
the common stock. For the preceding
- months net income was $11,056, 1925
or SLOT a share. For the 1885 calen-
dar year the company earned $1.35 a
share.
Electric output Of subsidiaries TO-
the IL months ended March 81 was
up 11.3 per cent. In the first three
weeks Of April electric production
showed a gain Of 8.5 per cent.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 25.-James F..
Fogarty, president of North American
Co., asserted today that Government
authorities hold inconsistent theories
on taxation and corporate dividends.
At the company's annual stockhold-
ers' meeting he declared that Govern
ment representatives, in the course Of
hearings on utility legislation last year,
charged holding companies with COM
pelling their subsidiaries to pay out
to much of their earnings as divi-
dendS.
In direct conflict with this position,
he said. was the purpose Of the pend
ing tax legislation, in that it would
appear to compel the paying out OF
dividends of a larger proportion Of
earnings" through the imposition Of
Evening star., 1936-04-26
WOOL FAIRLY STEADY
DESPITE SLOW TRADING
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April 25 Omitted States
Department of Agricultural Quota
tions on domestic woods were fairly
steady in Boston during the last week
despite very limited demand.
Practically nothing was done on
strictly combing Ohio fleeces which
were quoted as during the previous
week at 1885 cents in the grease for
fine, at 34-35 cents for 1sa blood and
at 35-37 cents for % and 4 blood
grades. A little spot IL months Texas
wool was moved at 1885 cents secured
basis.
Scattered sales of small volume for
piecing-out purposes were closed in
graded territory woods at prices within
ranges quoted during the previous
week.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
LARGE GAIN SHOWN
by BARNSDALL OIL
Quarterly Net of &71,43
Compares With Loss of
$337,839 in 1885.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 25.-Barnsdall
Oil Co., with principal producing
properties in Oklahoma. Kansas. Tex
as and California. reported March
quarter consolidated net income of
SAT- ,043, against net loss Of 1887 ,839
in the like period last year.
Hercules Powder Co.
Hercules Powder Co., makers of ex-
plosives and chemicals. with plants
throughout the country, reported net
income of S805,10l for the March
quarter, equivalent after preferred
dividends to Slip share of common
stock, against s797, ,060 or s1.05 COM
mon share in the first quarter last
year.
Consolidation Coal.
Consolidation Coal Co., with proper
ties in Maryland, Pennsylvania. Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and Kentucky.
reported today for the quarter ended
March 81 net profit of $304, 1868. The
company was formed last November
as a reorganization of the old Consol-
idation Coal Co.
Marshall Field & Co.
Marshall Field & Co.. department
store chain and manufacturers and
distributors of dry goods, with head
quarters at Chicago, reported for the
March quarter net loss of s94,532,
against net loss Of SAP, ,734 in the 1895
quarter.
Bendix Aviation.
Bendix Aviation Corp. Of Chicago,
manufacturers Of accessories and
equipment for the motor. aviation and
other industries, reported for the
March quarter net income of $3.50 800
against $803,537 in the 1885 quarter.
Evans Products.
Evans Products Co. of Detroit, max
ers of automobile leaders and other
equipment, had net income Of $255,917
for the March quarter, equivalent to
$1.O4 a share on the capital stock
against $250,292 or $1.02 share in
the same quarter last year.
Link-Belt Co.
Link-Belt Co. of Chicago, manu-.
facturers of elevating and transmis.
sion machinery and other equipment
reported March quarter net profit Of
1907, 1873, against $200,978 in the same
period last year.
Scott Paper Co.
Scott Paper Co., with principal
plant at Chester, Pa, reported March
quarter net profit Of $234.601, equa
after dividend requirements on the
per cent preferred stock to 50 cents q
share on the common, against $780,.
AIT or $109 share on smaller
amount of common stock outstanding
in the March quarter last year.
North American Aviation.
North American Aviation, Inc, op-
Grating air mail lines from New Yorl
and Chicago to southern terminals
reported net profit Of $33,869 for thu
March quarter, against loss Of $50, ,79s
for the like period in 1885.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK. April 25-On April 10
the Government issued its first fore
cast on the 1886 Winter wheat crop.
The crop was estimated at $4,000, 900
bushels, or about 100000 bushels
less than the average of private fore
casts. At the same time, it repre-
sented an increase Of 60,000,000
bushels over the 1885 harvest Of 49,
600 900 bushels. This does not mean,
however, that the total wheat crop
will be larger than that Of last year.
That will depend on the size OF the
Spring wheat crop and there Is as
vet little information available in re-
gard to this crop. It is fairly probable
however, that the 1896 Spring wheat
crop will be at least as large as the
1885 harvest since the yield last year
was quite moderate, amounting 70
170, ,00O, 900 bushels as compared with
the 1928-1932 five-year average OF
242, 900 900 bushels. But even II the
crop equals that Of last year, the
Evening star., 1936-04-26
RISE IN FUR PRICES
PREDICTED NEXT FALL
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 25.-Fur trade
inquiries in New York, prompted by
the steadily rising trend in prices of
trimmings, brought out some forecasts
that quotations for next Fall will be
from IS to 40 per cent above those of
last Autumn.
The unusual strength Of the market
has been attributed to wild life con-
servation programs in this and other
countries.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
INVESTORS SYNDICATE
EMPHASIZES RECOVERY
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MINNEAPOLIS, April 25.-Rapidity
of recovery throughout the country is
emphasized by the income statement
of Investors Syndicate for the first
quarter of 1886, which shows gain
of 1874 per cent in mortgage COLI
lections, a rise of 30.83 per cent in
certificate collections, an increase Of
6 per cent in new business sold and a
decrease of 3.44 per cent in loans to
contract holders and surrenders in the
first quarter of this year, compared
with the same period of a year ago.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
MORE SUGAR USED.

NEW YORK, April Is tR.-Sugar
consumption in the IA principal
European countries during the first
six months of the current crop year
ended February totaled 3,853,651 long
tons, raw sugar value. against 3,712,-
670 tons consumed during the like
period last season, it was reported by
Lamborn 81 Co., trade brokers.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
ARMCO STEEL ORDERED
FOR FABRICATED HOUSES
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 25.-Orders for
more than 500 tons of Armco steel
have been received by the American
Rolling Mill Co. from the Insulated
Steel Construction Co. and Steel
Buildings, Inc, Middletown. Ohio,
manufacturers of pre-fabricated steel
houses.
Contracts for the purchase of steel
sheets are based upon present de-
mands and also upon anticipated
needs within the near future, accord
ing to the housing companies. 4
Evening star., 1936-04-26
INCREASE IN TAXES
IS FACED CALMLY
BY BRITISH TRADE
Chill Cast Over Commons
as Results of Military
Race Appear.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, April 25.-Cables and
wireless dispatches to Business Week
give the following survey of business
abroad for the week ending today.
"Britains treasury head
announced the new budget for 1886
81 with two important tax increases.
The income tax rate is jumped nearly
"a per cent and the duty on tea is in
creased so per cent by jumping the
tax. to I'd per pound. Exemptions are
raised fl0, for heads of families, and
the allowance for each child Is in
creased an equal amount.
The increases are necessary to
cover fresh rearmament expenditures
which are estimated to run to f20,-
100000 next year, or approximately
$100, 100000. The income tax increase
will provide more than one-half of
this.
Road Fund to Be Used.
what Is not made up by the in
creased duty on tea will be deliber-
ately taken from the road fund or
automobile license tax. The treasury
frankly admits that it expects to take
more than SIG, ,O00, 900. which otherwise
would 60 to road building and upkeep
mo budget In years has cast such a
chill over the House of Commons. Busi-
ness took the news calmly, though not
happily for the armament expenditures
are just beginning. The government
has already said that a rearmament
program on five-year schedule L
being inaugurated, a part Of the ex-
penditure to be covered by a defense
loan which will be floated later.
Stocks slumped only momentarily
on the budget news"
French Gains Widen.
PARIS-"Economic gains which be-
gan to appear in France during the
last quarter of 1885 have been picking
up momentum during the first foul
months Of this year. There are evi.
dences Of it in half dozen business
indicators. Unemployment is 3 pei
cent below the figure for last year
Returns from the sales tax are greater
Railway earnings are larger. Cal
loadings have increased. The heavy
industries are more active. Auto.
! mobile production Is gaining rapidly
The rubber, leather. and paper indus
tries report increasing business.
1.-TWO factors are behind this recov.
cry. The first is the government
buying program in carrying out new
defense measures. The second, anc
more significant, is the improved posi-.
ton Of the farmers, following the
gradual but continued rise in the
prices for agricultural products.
"The index of wholesale prices ir
France at the end of February stood al
376. This compares with 342 at tht
! end of February, 1885,"
Reich Business Calm.
BERL1N.-"Following many week!
of nervous worry, German business Il
now settling down to a period O.
relative calm. The improved feeling
among business leaders is reflected il
the f1rmer tone on the Boerse, tn,
steady stream of dividend announce
ments and favorable company reports
Leaders are also impressed with thu
newest report of the Institute for Busi'
ness Research, which shows that there
has been slow but steady increast
in industrial exports over the last few
months, which has caused manufac'
turers to re-employ 250,000 additiona
workers to handle the new expor
! business"
Evening star., 1936-04-26
PREFERRED TO BE SOLD
BY ILLINOIS UTILITY
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 25.-With the
contemplated offering Of 111,464
shares of preferred stock, following the
effective date of a pending registra-
ton statement, Central Illinois Light
Co. will complete its current refund
ing program designed to effect sub
stantial savings in interest and divi-
dend requirements. r. 8. Wallace,
president, announced.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-12-18
Celebrate 5bfh
Anniversary

Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Matson, resi-
dents of Phoenix for the past IL
years celebrated their fifty-sixth
wedding anniversary Sunday, the
18th, with q dinner and evening
party at their residence, 1902 e.
Taylor Street. Mr.. Matson is a
retired plumber of our city and
has large real estate holdings. We
wish for them many more ami
versaries.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-12-18
Harlem Fefes
Thyro EdWords

NEW YORK - Thyra Edwards,
prominent social worker who re-
turned recently from a trip to the
Soviet Union and other European
countries, was th-e principal
speaker at banquet in her honor
here this week.
The affair was arranged by the
Greater New York Federation of
the National Negro Congress in
the Little. Theatre auditorium OF
the Y. M. c. A., 1SO West 135th
Street. Miss Edwards is a nation
al chairman Of the women's divi-
sion of the Congress.
Other speakers at the banquet
included Lester Granger, Nation
al Urban League; Frank r. Cross
waith, Harlem labor leader: and
T. T. Patterson of the Brotherhood
Of Sleeping Car Porters. Elise
McDougald Aver, the city's only
Negro public school principal, act
ed as chairman.
Miss Edwards, a well known
Chicago social worker, returned to
this country from a six months'
study Of social conditions in
Europe. She made an extensive
tour Of the Soviet Union and das-
cribed in glowing terms the con-
ditions Of freedom and equality
under which all minority groups
The Arizona gleam., 1936-12-18
Mon, Killed
! nj Poker Come

AS a climax Of poker game
in Gila Bend last Sunday night,
George Turntinc, 80 year old cot
ton picker, was almost decapitat-
ed from a charge of shot gun fir
ed : CLOSE range.
I. is reported that an argument
owe 2 thirty-five cent pot in the
polT2z resulted in the killing. His
ass I mt, who was reported to be
an ,~convict from Texas, is be-
ing aught by state and county
off -,
The Arizona gleam., 1936-12-18
Gen. Butler
Reps War
M okers


PERTH AMBOY, N. J.-Major
General Snedley Butler, retired
U. S. Marine Corps Commander,
finally got chance to speak in
this city against war after the
local Board of Education had
turned thumbs down on a peace
meeting in one of the public
schools. General Butler warned
that the money interests were pre-
pairing a new and greater blood
bath.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-12-18
Man Dies
II rom Stove
Explosion

Wilbur Stanton, As years old,
was burned to death in his home
on East Tonic Street last Sunday
night, as the results of the explo-
sion of an Oil stove he was using
in his home.
It is reported that Stanton liv-
ed alone and has no relatives here
Following the blast the house in
which he lived was completely de-
stroyed.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-12-18
Philadelphia
Mun Killed
BY Cop

PHILADELPHIA. - John Col
Inns, 80, was shot by Detective
Sergeant Bart German, white, in
what police described as an at
tempted hold-up of Harry Shapiro,
42-year old white grocer. Police
claimed that Collins used the
grocer as a human shield. John
Henderson, II, alleged accomplice
of Collins is being held for ques-
tioning.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-12-18

in. many camps. At the Barber
Camp, nearer Jacksonville, one
worker who was apprised of the
conditions at McClenny looked
furtively about and stated:
"Shucks, Mister, that camp is a
good one." His comparison was
with the Barker outfit.
In their talks with workers at
the McClenny Camp, the investi-
gators were told that "Allr the
Negro people in the community
live in virtual slavery. None is
allowed to leave the place."
The turpentine workers, the sin-
vestigators found, "are forcedE to
toll from daylight until they can
no longer see at night. The owner
has two stool pigeons, who keep
him informed of everything that
goes on. These informers even
slip under the shacks at night and
listen in an conversations which
might indicate that some one was
thoughts of escape"
One of the most astounding dis
closures was that the Barker
Camp, tired of paying even fifty
cents day, was instrumental in
the Withdrawal of dozens OF young
boys from the public school, to
work chopping pine trees at rs
cents day.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-12-18
@OtHNSC5o INC COVERED IN
FLORIDA CAMPS

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. = Har-
rowing tales of a whole commun-
ity held in virtual slavery on a
turpentine farm where the pay
was fifty cents a day were told
to investigators for the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, the National
Negro Congress, the National AS
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People, and the writer, in
sweeping investigation into
peonage conditions in Florida last
week.
(The findings of the investigat-
ors were presented to the 56th
Annual Convention Of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor last
week by A. Phillip Randolph,
President of. the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters, in connec-
tion with criticism by Randolph
and other delegates of the choice
of Tampa for the convention. In
reply to telegram Of protest
from the convention, Gov. Dave
Sholtz Of Florida promised an
investigation. Editor, CNA.)
According to several of the
modern-day slaves who were ques-
toned, no one dares to leave the
camp for fear of being instantly
shot and presumably killed or bad
ly injured They are forced to
spend their fifty-cents a day wage
in the company" commissary
where prices are double those in
the city.
The Investigations resulted from
the jailing few days ago Of four
white men accused by two Neg
roes Of forcing them back to work
at the points of guns when they
attempted to go elsewhere seek
ing living wage.
The Investigations revealed that
while peonage was most flagrant-
ly practised in the McClenny
Camp of the Knapp Brothers, the
practice Of forced labor prevails
The Arizona gleam., 1936-12-18

The verdict brought to II the
number of first degree convictions
against members Of the Black
Legion, a secret terrorist outfit
which sought to establish a fascist
dictatorship in the United States.
The murder of 42-year old Silas
Coleman, for which they were con-
victed, was as bizarre as the
Poole killing for which IL men
were sent to prison for life. One
murder was for vengeance on a
false charge of wife-beating; the
other was for "fun."
During the trial, Dayton Dean,
Legion trigger-man, testified that
Coleman was shot "for the hell OF
it," by Legion leaders who want
ed to see what it felt like to kill
a Negro"
Dean was told to find Negro
ANY Negro" Rouse, who owed
Coleman some money for work
The Arizona gleam., 1936-12-18
Bishop Wright
breaches VIII,
Abourd Eur d

LONDON Bishop r. r.
Wright, Jr., Of the Fifteenth Epis-
copal District Of the A. M. e.
Church, preached to first class
passengers aboard the palatial
steamer, the Europa, as she
churned through mid-Atlantic on
The Arizona gleam., 1936-12-18
BLACK KHAN 5
CT LIFE FOR
THRILL Kill LING

DETROIT Five Black Leg
ionaires, found guilty Of first de-
gree murder for the thrill kill
ing of Silas Coleman, Negro
laborer, were sentenced to life i'm
prisonment by Circuit Judge Don
old Van iZne, last week.
Three of the thrill killers,
Harvey Davis, Jack Bannerman
and Erwin Lee, were already SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment for
the murder of Charles Poole, a
white WPA worker. Charles
Rouse and James Roy Torrance
are the other two. Life imprison-
nent is the highest penalty in the
state of Michigan. It is manda-
tory in first degree murder.
The trial was watched with
great interest by Negro and white
workers and professionals, and
the crowd was crowded during the
entire week it lasted.
The Arizona gleam., 1936-12-18

a recent morning. The Bishop and
Mrs. Wright, enroute to Cape
Town, South Africa, were the only
colored first class passengers a.
board.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03

light is harmful. It certainly is a
bad thing to attempt to get a full
seasons tan in a few days. To
get a healthy suntan takes at least
a week or ten days. The first eX-
posture to intense sunlight on the
usually protected parts Of the body
should not last more than half an
hour at the outside, gradually
lengthening this out so that the
TAN is acquired without the
BURN.
I have seen people so seriously
Ill from sunburn as to be a cause
Of considerable concern. One even
was mentally deranged for "a
hours. Sunburn is just the same
as any other burn, and it is well
known that if more than certain
percentage of the surface of the
skin is involved in a severe burn
the outcome is fatal. When the
whole skin surface Is involved in
light burn, then it is no wonder
that the victim is ill.
The good effects Of sunlight
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-03
Contract Bridge

with second trick due in hearts
and one in clubs.
North's first discard was the 8
Of clubs, so South took his K Of
clubs, dropping declarer's lone 8,
but then he might have been false
carding. South next should have
taken his K of hearts, but he led
his last club instead. Declarer
ruffed. Two good diamonds were
run off. On the last of these dunn
my let go its last heart. South
should have expected this de-
movement, from the fact that two
low trumps were left in dummy,
instead Of having his own last
trump pulled.
Dummy ruffed a low Heart. De-
clarer ruffed return club, with
next to his last trump. Dummy
ruffed declarer's last heart with
it's last trump, and South had to
follow suit. The 10 of clubs was
led from dummy. South had to
ruff with his j, while declarer
overruffed with the @, for 5-odd.
The way West anticipated South's
error could not have been soothing
to the latter. South could have
baked this by leading a trump.
when he led his last club, as well
as by taking his good heart when
he had the opportunity.
AS rule false-carding, does not
accomplish much. Habitual false
carding, particularly by defenders,
often does harm rather than good,
but in this case declarer's best
chance for 5-odd was to win the
first diamond trick with his @, as
if he held the K without the ].
Then possibly South might have
thought North originally held
diamonds, and West 2 clubs. West
should not have given South an
opportunity to count his hand.