PUBUC WORKS
. PROGRAM BE
SPEEDED V P\
HYDE PARK, Aug. 29. —While
the President is vacationing at his
Summer home at Hyde Park con
terences of great importance are
being held there each day. Yester
day President Roosevelt conferred
with Secretary of the Interior Har
old Ickes, who is head of the Ad
ministration’s huge Public Works
program.
Ickes told the President that
huge sums of money had been al
located by the administration for
public works to alleviate unemploy
ment but he declared the projects
are being held up by other depart
ments, contractors, or other “red
tape.” The possibility that con
tracts awarded for projects on
which construction w a s laggard
would be cancelled and the money
taken and alloted to some other
project was hinted at as a means
:o bring about quick action in hav
ing men get on the payrolls.,
Ickes’ conversation with Roose
velt was to concern only means of
expediting national recovery thru
the public works program.
The problem oi monetary siau
Jization was also laid before Pre
sident Roosevelt yesterday by Mon
tague Norman. Governor of the
Bank of England, who has just ar
rived in the United States. Norman
was accompanied by Frederick Er
tcson. head of the Federal Reserve
Board of the New York district, It
is said they discussed the proposal
of creating a stabilization fund for
the benefit of currencies of Great
3ritain and the United States.
President Roosevelt was described
as being attentative but non-com
mital when the proposals were dis
cussed. It is stated that his atti
tude to let the American dollar
shfft for itself as far as foreign
•exchange is concerned, is unchang
ed.
COAL INDUSTRY
CODE BE READY
IN FEW DAYS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 29. —
Another major obstacle in the Na
tional Recovery Administration’s
program appeared to have been
swept to the side yesterday follow-1
ing the announcement that non-j
union coal mine operators had a
bandoned their stand not to re
cognize the United Mine Workers
of America in their efforts to draw
up a code of fair competition under
the National Recovery Act.
Recovery programs were highly
enthusiastic over the turn in af
fairs and it saves them from be
coming drastic and writing a code
for the coal industry themselves,
as they had threatened.
The code is expected to be placed
in the right language for approval
by President Roosevelt within three
days. No provisions of the code have
been made public.
The code will effect approximate
ly 400,000 mine workers.
When the code is adopted, more
than 80 per cent of the Nations
workers will be working under the
‘ blue eagle.”
LEAGUE STANDINGS
SEATTLE, Aug. 29. —The stand
ings of the first four clubs of the
three major league baseball leagues
follows: National—New York 612,
Boston 557, Chicago 545, St. Louis
533; American—Washington 659,
New York 595, Cleveland 519, and
Philadelphia 492; Pacific—Los An
geles 597, Hollywood 589, Portland
585, and Sacramento 557.
AIRPLANE CODE
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug. 29. —!
The Aeronautical Chamber of Com- ‘
merce has submitted a code for the
airplane industry.
BRAIN TRUSTER’ |
AGAIN EXPLAINS
HIS RESIGNATIONj
_ i
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. —Prof, i
Raymond I. Moley, key man of the '
celebrated “brain trust,” who i s j
credited with originating much of
the program of the New Deal, and
who Sunday tendered his resigna
tion to President Roosevelt, was
forced to issue an announcement!
1 specifically declaring that his re- .
, signation was not the result of
differences between himself and
Secretary of State -Cordell Hull.
Molev’s resignation was presaged
by a sub-surface split between Mol
ey and Hull.
Moley declared that he had been
a writer for 25 years and that he
now has the opportunity to launch
upon a magazine venture with him
self at the helm. He said he would
continue to support the Roosevelt
policies because he belives in them.
The new national weekly which
Moley will edit is backed by Vin
cent Aster, a close friend of the
President.
SMALL EMPLOYERS
BE ‘BLUE-EAGLED’
BY VOLUNTEERS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. —Vol
unteers began a nation-wide can
vass of small employers yesterday
as the government pushed its
national recovery drive into a crit
ical phase.
Approval of the automobile code
brought all the key industries un
der the ‘‘blue eagle” except coal,
and the coal agreement is expected
w'ithin the next three days.
P r e s i dent Roosevelt’s executive
order approving the automobile
code arrived here yesterday from
Hyde Park. Labor leaders, who had
hoped that the order would specify
that the labor provision which they
objected to could not be considered
a precedent for other codes, found
it contained no such statement.
WAS INTOXICATED
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29. —The pi
lot who brought his plane down
in a vacant lot here the other day
has found that this was only the
beginning of a long train of trou
bles. Soon after the accident the
pilot was given a sobriety test and
he was held on the charge of pi
loting an airplane while intoxicated.
Later, when he attempted to re
move his airplane from the lot he
found tha tit was being held until
he payed damages incurred to the
property by virtue of his landing
there. Witnesses said that before
the pilot landed his airplane that
he flew under power lines and even
bounced off a light pole.
QUEEN HELEN
IS CRITICIZED
NEW YORK, Aug. 29. — Helen
Wills Moody, accompanied by her
cousin, Alice Loughlin of New York,
and a trained nurse, left here for
San Francisco.
Meanwhile, a controversy raged
in the tennis world as to whether
“Queen Helen” should have de
faulted in her contest with Miss
Jacobs. One large group of sports
followers maintained that she
should have played through the fin
al set, even as the- risk of fainting
from numbness and pain, caused
by a previous injury to her spine.
AFRICAN FLY
MAY BE CAUSE
DREAD MALADYl
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 29. —The bite of j
the dread African tsetse fly was in-:
vestigated by health officials here,
as the cause of the epidemic of |
sleeping sickness now sweeping St. j
Louis.
Forty deaths and more than 275 •
cases of the malady have been re
ported. Three persons died Sun
day and 15 more cases were placed
in isolation.
The tsetse fly theory was advanc- ,
ed by William Godin, who reported j
to police that he saw an insect in |
his yard that closely resembled'
the tsetse fly which he had seen \
many times while in Borneo.
The tsetse fly always was thought
to have been indigenous to Africa
and not found in other localities.
The medical authorities are tire
less in their efforts to trace down
the cause of the malady. Even
though the tsetse fly may be the
cause of the sickness they are not
abandoning other lines of research.
They are hunting vigorously to try
and establish where victims of the
disease have contacted the disease
in the first place. To this means
they are studying water supplies,
food supplies, surroundings, etc.
The doctors also have attempted
to innoculate monkeys with, the ma
lady so as to attempt to perfect a
serum to combat the disease. The
monkeys, however, are immune to
the disaese it is declared.
FR. HUBBARD
IS IN SEATTLE
I
SEATTLE, Aug. 29. —Fr. Bernard
R. Hubbard, known as the "Padre
of the Glaciers” arrived here yes-,
terday on the SS. Dellwood from;
False Pass, Alaska. Fr. Hubbard has j
been exploring Shishaldin volcano ;
and other places of interest on the ;
i Aleutian peninsula.
: Fr. Hubbard reported that he had j
' the worst trip in seven years of j
| volcanic explorations. This year he i
was particularly unfortunate as in
| their ascent of Shishaldin volcano
ithey were almost blown off the
; mountain’s side by the blizzard
i which raged.
! Prof. Roderick Chisholm, who was
i with Fr. Hubbard on the Shishal- j
| din ascent this year, returned to:
rj Seattle several weks ago.
‘K1NGFISH’ HAS A
CVT ABOVE EYE
MILWAUKEE, Wis. Aug. 29. —
Senator Huey Long, Louisiana’s
colorful “Kingfish” arrived in Mil
waukee yesterday with an inch
long cut over his left eye. He refus
ed to explain how he was injured,
j New York reports that Senator
'Long was the object of a punch
| ing at a fashionable Long Island
| spot. It is said that Long gravely
i insulted the person who took a
j “poke” at him. The managers of
the fashionable place are said to
j have hustled Long away from their
place of business.
BASEBALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 1, Detroit 6.
Philadelphia 9, Chicago 5.
Rest postponed because of rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE ,
Cincinnati 2, Boston 0.
Pittsburgh 9-9, Philadelphia 5-1.
New York 8, St. Lous 12.
Others, rain.
No Pacific Coast games sched
uled.
IN HANDS RECEIVERS
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 29. — The
Missouri Life Insurance Company
went into the hands of receivers
yesterday.
STOCK MARKET
SHOWED ONLY
LITTLE ACTIVITY
NEW YORK, Aug. 29. —A few
stocks were active and strong in
yesterday's session no the stock
exchange, while the main list was
dull and irregular. The whole list
rallied from early lows in the af
ternoon, but buying on the rally
was as scarce as was selling on
the preceding decline.
The market closed with narrow
fractional gains being recorded.
General Motors climbed to 35%
and Chrysler climber to 34'3 to put
the motor issues out in front as the
favorable active issues of the day.
September wheat closed at 87%;
December cotton $9.81; copper 9
cents; export copper .083 cents at
London; bar silver 36%; lead 4.50;
and the pound sterling closed at
$4.5234, off 10 cents.
Dow Jones averages were: In
' dustrials 104.72, off .35; Rails 53.60.
i up .23; Utilities 31.05. off .13; bonds
187.52, off .06.
Some of the latest quotations
were Alacka Juneau 28%, Am. Rad
!l7%, Am. Tel. &. Tel. 130, Chi
Mil. (pld.) 15, Chryler 46%. Kenn
'22%, Gen. Mot. 36%, New York
: Cent. 52, United Air 39%, Unitec
Corp. 9, United Gas 4%, U. S. Stee
57%, West. 47%.
- •
The first six months of 1933 sav
1 195,874 passengers carried on re
! gularly scheduled air lines in con
I tinental United States, according t<
the Aeronautics Branch, of the De
partment of Commerce. /
ATLANTIC BEING
SCOURED LOCATE i
MISSING SLOOP
NEW YORK, Aug. 29. — Eight
! destroyers, 10 coast guard boats,
airplanes and numerous other ves
sels searched yesterday for the
missing sloop Postscript, carrying
President Roosevelt’s keenest anx
iety.
The 23-foot sloop has been miss
ing since August 20 when it set
jsail from Manasquan, N. J., bound
S for Nantucket. It sailed into a
i tropical storm that caused much
| damage along the Atlantic sea
board last week.
Manning the vessel were John J.
Niles, owner of the craft, and son
of Dr. Walter J. Niles, Manhattan
j neighbor of President Roosevelt,
j Charles L. Niles, his brother and P.
P. Irving, son of F. DuPont Irving,
stock broker and grand nephew of
Washington Irving.
Charles Niles is 16 and the other
youths are in their twenties.
It is said that rum runners are
scurrying for cover as they have
failed to perceive the purpose of
the manhunt.
MESSENGERS ARE
ROBBED OF $36,000
DENVER, Colo., Aug. 29. — The
police theory that the $36,000 rob
bery of three bank messengers here
Saturday was committed by mem- |
bers of the Harvey Bailey-Bates!
gang, who still are at large, was
strengthened yesterday.
Mrs. Emma R. Trined told police
she now has “positively identified”
a .man who stayed at her rooming
house last Thursday night as
James Clark, a confederate of Bail
ey and Bates.
DAVID LAMSON
SHOWS STRAIN
MURDER TRIAL
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 29. — The
strain is beginning to tell. David
Lamson tries to conceal it, but
it is no use. A changed Lamson
gripped his chair as the State’s
witnesses yesterday described the
crimsoned death scene that fatal
Memorial day.
In place of the flushed, fleshy
face and sanguine composure
I which he exhibited during the se
i lection of the jury, is a harassed
| expression, taut and strained.
Noticeable circles have appeared
i under his eyes which were clear
and hopeful last week, but which
are murky and weary now.
His trial continued here yester
day with the State presenting its
evidence. The State’s evidence
iso far submitted, it has been
i declared, has been of just as
| much benefit to the defense as it
j has to the prosecution. Witnesses
i testified that the fracture of Mrs.
| Lamson’s skull could have been
caused by a fall just as well as
j from the blow of a hard object.
! Testimony was given that Mrs.
1 Lamson often was subject to faint
; ing spells and that she carried a
1 police whistle with which to sum
| mon aid when she felt one of her
| weak spells coming on.
About the most telling testimony
J for the prosecution was the declar
i ation that after the death of Mrs.
: Lamson, Lamson was-seen in the
backyard burning some refuse. The
r j prosecution seeks to prove that tho
i refuse Lamson is said to have been.
I burning contained pieces of cloth
I which were stained with blood.
): _ _
ACCEPTING PORKERS
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 29. —Pack
ing houses were to accept 20,000
pigs under the government prem
ium plan for packing today. The
8.000 pigs which were sent yester
day are to be included in today's
allotment. Because of the tendency
of farmers to flood the market with
their surplus pigs it had been de
cided to withhold premiums on pigs
shipped over quotas which the
packing houses can take care of
with their usual facilities. ,
WASHINGTON IS
VOTING TODAY
| ON RATIFICATION
SEATTLE, Aug. 29. —Washington,
the 24th state, is voting on repeal
of the 18th Amendment today, el
ecting delegates for the state con
stitutional convention on “wet” or
“dry” platforms.
Both the wet and dry sides
j w o u n d up intensive campaigns
yesterday to get the citizens out to
the polls. The wets were elaborate
l in their statements of a victory but
I the drys are no less lacking in
| confidence that the tide will turn
in Washington and ratification be
opposed.
If the wets score in Washington
that state will be the 24th con
secutive state'to vote for ratifica
tion but if the drys can carry the
state it will be the first to regis
ter adverse action on the repeal
amendment.
Wet leaders have expressed the
belief that 36 necessary ratifying
states will have passed on the law
by the first week in December.
Postmaster General Farley also has
expressed the opinion that the nec
essary 36 states will be in the wet
column by December 7.