Nebraska Newspapers

    MONDAY. JTJNE 6, 1938.
PIATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOTJRNAL
PAGE FIVE
Arrests Made
in an Alleged
Espionage Plot
Two German Ship Captains and a
Designer of Naval Vessels Ar
rested by Federal Agents.
NEW YORK. June 4 (UP) The
p. Most of two German ship captains
and a designer of the navy's newest
destroyers brought startling new
1 -imifieat ions tn the investigation of
espionage plot today.
The captains. Franz Friske of the
I .amburg-Amerlcan Line, freighter
Ilindenburg and lleinrich Lorenz of
the North German Lloyd, freighter
Chemnitz were arraigned in federal
court last night as material wit
1 sses in the plot that in two months
has involved more than 3 0 persons.
They were released on $2,500 bonds
each and immediately boarded the
North German Lloyd liner Europa,
apparently with the 'federal men's
I now ledge. The Europa sailed early
today for Europe.
The other prisoner taken last
right. Christian Danielsoi.. a drafts
man for the Bath Iron Works at
1 1:: t h . Maine which is building new
ships for the navy was held in jail j
under $10.iut0 bond. j
It was renorteel tliat some of the!
plans for the new destroyers had i
litcii stolen. Danielsoi: 's importance ritcry today, and fortified their ele
rs a witness, was attested by the fense lines, as their most recent
fact that his bond was set four times I frontier incident again threatened tc
linger than that of most materia 1 i cause war over their 4"0-year-old
witnesses in the case.
The two captains had been detain
ed to testify before a federal grand
jury that has been investigating the
case for a month and their ships
sailed without them several weeks
o. Their sailing today, while uri-j
der bond, was a mysterious develop
ment. In arraigning them. Leon U. ,
Tc-rrou. a G-man and Lester C. Duni- i
pan of the l S. attorney's office told j
Judge John . Clancy they had in- j
formation that the captains intend- j
e.I to sail en the Europa and for that ,
reason rhey requested the bond be j
set. The y told the court that once '
the men go! to Germany, where two!
other material witnesses have taken '
up residence, while under subpoena.
there would he no wav of forcing'
the in to return. I
CITE SWIFT & COMPANY
WASHINGTON, June Z (UP)
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. !
Wallace today ordered Swift & Co. j
Chicago meat packing firm, to cease'
"unfair, unjustly discriminatory and
deceptive" practices in the sale of its
products. j
Wallace
held tlie company liad
violated the packers and stockyards
act from 1!0" to 1937 through un
lawful practices in distribution of
its products.
Department attorneys said the or
de r w as based on hearings in New
York on Swift V: Co. practices in
eastern territory but that it applies
to the concern's operations through
out the country.
The alleged violations Included:
1. Denying certain purchasers dis
counts while granting them to others.
2. Requiring some purchasers to
pay for meat at factory weights and
others at weights when sold to con
sumers. Giving long
'oino purchasers
credit to others.
term credit to
and short term j
LET HIGHWAY CONTRACTS
LINCOLN.
June 4 (UP)
S'.ate j
bv.sinccr A. C. Tilley awarded
eon-
tra ts today on all except five high
way projec ts for which bids were re
ce i ved Thursday.
Tilley said low bids had been ac
cepted on the following projects but
that awards would not be made until
work agreements are filed with the
highway department by the parti
cipating county, city, or railroad:
Through west and New port-Jami- j
so;:. Max Stratton; Trcnton-Stratton
and Oxford-Atlanta.
TW0 CASES OF SLEEPING
SICKNESS REPORTED
LINCOLN. June 4 (UP) First
ra"s this season of "sleeping sick
ness" among Nebraska horses were
ii; iosed today by Dr. J. S. Ander
son, state vetorinrrian.
Dr. J. D. Lindgren of Edgar re
pi rtcd two c-ises to the state office.
Dr. Anderson said the disease prob
;.b;y is carried by mosquitoes. He
believes the condition spreads more
rapidly after wet weather.
"RAIN LAUNDRY DELIVERY MAN
BERKELEY. Cal. lUP) BerVceiey
huh school lias opened a course for
laundry route men. No effort will
1
!" -ii'(.c to lnvrc.isc tlfir g( ncr:l
c .'.it'.:rc. Lut rather on how to get the
pacl ages delivered on time. ;
SNITE FAMILY ENCOURAGED
CHICAGO, Jue 4 (UP) Billings
Memorial hospital physicians today
began an examination of Frederick
B. Snite, Jr., infantile paralysis vic
tim, to determine the progress he has
made during the past eight months.
He returned to Chicago yesterday
from Miami, Fla., in the "iron lung"
in which he has lain for 26 months.
He was stricken in China while on
a world tour.
"Everyone is very much encour
aged about his condition," Snite's
father said. "He is now able to re
main outside the respirator for 24
minutes at a time, an increase of
about two minuttos in three months."
Young Snit? will be taken to his
home in suburban River Forest in
about ten days. He will return to
Miami next fall
South American
Nations Prepare
Armed Forces
Peru and Ecuador Both Send Troonsjmcnt 01 Ine act- "1,5S ,'ins
Into Disputed Jungle Territory ! fssktd c- !- ' collaboration in the
as Result of Clash. j proposed study The British act war
i passed in l'.27 after England's gen-
P-UENOS ARIES. June J (VP)
Peru ur.d Ecuador sent vein fore
ments to the w-'.d Oriente jungle ter-
boundary dispute.
Peruvian and Ecuadorian govern
ments, in statements issued at Lima
and Quito, exchanged charges that
as the result of a border clash, the
ether side was preparing for a fight.
Ecuador said that strong cor.ting-
ents of Peruvian troops had arrived
jn the Tumbes district and that hence
"Ecuador had ordered reinforcements
for the Fuarti detachment?
s at Oro and:
dash which!
I
a s!.-..rf.roent i
Rcca Fuerte, scene of the
causet ne trouble
p mum..,! w-it,
a statement
that Ecuador was h
avi'.v fortifing
the frontier. Hence, it was said, it
was necessary for Peru to take de
fensive measures.
It was reported in Quito that r.
Peruvian gunboat arrived at Port Viz-
.-,vr,f, r.-.to Ti, r.i,.;,n fn.!"f the New York Timer, wrote in
tier, with 30u troops. j
At Quito. Ecuadorian army ofT'cers j
pledged their support of the govern-:
ment in defense cf "sacred national i
interests."' At Guayaquil, crowds par-'
aded the streets shouting '"long iive
Ecuador." :
Toe Ecuadorian cabinet, composed;
mainly of armv officers, resigned last i
night to give Gen. G. Alberto En-!
riquez, supreme chief of the republic
in the absence of a formally elected I
president, a free hand in the crisis
and so thev could return to thtir '
army commands i
Gen Enrique: retained Gen. Guil-
lermo Frtiii as war minister and Dr
Luis Bassano as foreign minister but ;
released other cabinet members. Cay- i
etano Uribc was named new treaury i
minister nd Alberto Ordtnana war
named social security minister. I
FINANCIERS TESTIFY
NEW
nanciers
YORK, June 4 (UP) Fi
tcstifying at a securities and
exchange commission investigation,
todav defended the etnics of their
dealings with a group of six mcr
charged with having acquired and
panics of SlO.ooo.finO.
Gerald Real, president of the J
Schrode r Banking Corporation which
ev-.o ;n,l,ve nno f ft,,. tmct
Continental Securities C:rp
lid his
ncgoiations were with Alexander B.
i Beverly of Toronto, who had b?er
! highly recommended to him bv the
i Royal Bar.k of Canada and others.
I David Schenker. commission coun
j scl, had questioned Beal as to wheth
; er he was not suspicious of the onci
, of S20 a share made to him for Con-
t jnor!tal
stock when it was "undei
water'' at minus Sll a share, and
whether he had not felt enough re-
sponsibilitv toward holders of Con-
tmential debentures to investigate tnci
buyers.
CARL0ADLNGS GAIN
u .Mii.Mj 1 u.. June 4 ic i 1 LEBANON. N. II.. June -3 (UP)
The Association of American Rail- Seized by a poss i:i his hideout in a
roads announced today carloadings j n-ni yard. John Henry Gray, a wood
for the week ending May 2S totaled chopper, confessed today to the axe
i.2.UM cars, an increase ot tni ee
per cent over the preceding week.
The week's loadings, however,
were 28.9 per cent below the same
week in 103 7 and 3H.5 per cent under
the corresponding week in 1930.
Loadings of grain and grain prod
fcts totaled 33.344 cars. 1.1S4 above
the previous week and 0,"S2 over
the same week in 1937.
Livestock loadings totaled 12.050
1
'..!;.
decrease of 1.317 beb.'w the
previous week and 52S less than the
same week in 1937.
British Labor
Act Study is
Not Approved
Labor Leader John L. Lewis Fears
May Bring- Changes to the
Wagner Labor Act.
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON', June 4 (UP)
A rousing battle impends today on the
left wing of the new deal-democratic
party if President Roosevelt's "ed
ucational" study of the British trades
dispute act accelerates the movement
for amendment of the national labor
relations act.
Chairman John L Lewi.? of the
Committe for Industrial Organiza
tion opened fire yesterday a few hours
after published reports that amend
ment of the act might follow the study
of British legislation.
Lewis wrote to Secretary of Laboi
Frances Perkins that the C. I. O.
"could not sanction" anv study of the
British act leading- toward amend-
eral strike of l'.cj; had brought the
nation to ths brink of re olutionary
j disorder
It especially protects the
British government against strikes
"to coerce the government" and es
tablishes criminal liability of union
officials, members of the strike com
mittccs and pickets who participate
in strike-? defined by the act as il
legal. The act also forbids lockouts.
Mr. Roosevelt, in a press confer
ence coincident with release of Lewis'
challenge, quickly denied there was
any relation whatever between the
labor act and the proposed studv cf
the more comprehensive British leg
islation He said the British r.ct had
been misinterpreted here and that the
udv mission would get some real
.acts for rurpores of comparison be -
t'.veen American and British law.
! But his desire to send a mission
' abroad recalled that there have been
1
White House intimations that some
phases of the P.ritish labor legislation
technique might be
In Fehruar- V.'T.
applicable here
Arthur Krock
a
Pulitzer prize interview after several
conservations witn -Mr. Roosevelt:
"The President believes i
is neces
sary net onlv for the federal govern
ment to be able to regulate against
over-production and under-production
. . . But it is also necessary for the
federal government to have sme auth
ority to compel collective bargaining
and to enforce the maintenance of
ci ntract both by employers and em
ployes." There are limited "responsibility"
provisions in the Brtish act. They arc
most effectve in ciefining types of
illegal strikes and in limiting the
freedom of civil servants or employes
of public (cither public! v or private
ly owned) utilities to strike. One of
the notable provisions of the British
act forbids, expnditure of trades un
ion funds for specified political cb
jects unless the objective has been
approved by a majority ballot vote
cf members. Such expenditures must
be made from a separate political
fund to which union members need
not contribute, nor mav unions put
to disadvantage any member who doe;
not contribute.
TO MAKE GREAT FILL
HASTINGS. Neb.. June 4 (UP)
Mo:;t spectacular construction unit
I of the Tri-Ceunty Bow er and Irri-
1 gat ion project will be launched early
in the summer as the result of a call
for bids for the big earth fill at the
Kingsley dam on the North Platte
river. July 5 was set as the date
for letting the contract.
The fill, which will extend from
bluff to bluff will be capable of im- 1
pounding 2,000.(300 acre feet of
v.rter. Its construction will be over
I a line of sheet pilin:
It is imper
vious brule clav for the entii-p lerir-th
of lnp (,am r(,re T,ip Jg
t , f ....
seepage beneath
... ...... ......
the valley level.
CONFESSES SLAYING
cta vintr of a man and a bov
at near
by Cannon.
"I don't know why I did it," he
said.
Police Chief C. W. Wright said
he had been unable to ascertain the
motive for the killing of Paul Barris.
24. and his 9-year-old brother-in-law.
Arthur Cullen. both related to
the slayer by marriage. A 20-man
posae trapped the 54-year-old wood
chopper 12 boms nftr bis slaying
which occurred in an isolated farm
house 15 miles from here.
DR. FREUD LEAVES VIENNA
VIENNA. June 4 (UP) Dr. Sig
mund Freud, world famous psy
choanalist left with his family today
for Paris, en route to London.
Dr. Freud, who is Jewish, pre
viously had been denied a passport,
and prevented from leaving the coun
try. His money was impounded to
prevent his departure. Dr. Freud is
S2 and has been ill. After the nazi
annexation, his home was raided and
searched and his books were among
the first to go into the public bon
tire. Freud left today with the con
sent of the authorities.
At the station his friends remained ! '
ciscreetly in the background to avoid
embarrassing him. inasmuch as the
oTieials emphasized that he must
depart without a demonstration. He
was permitted to take his library
and any furniture he desired.
Make Survey
for Purchase of
Relief Supplies!'
Secretary Wallace Directs Enlarged
Program for Purchasing of
Relief Supplies.
WASHINGTON, June 4 (UP)
Secretary of Agriculture Ilcnrv A.
Wallace directed the federal surplus
commodity corporation Friday to
survey need for an expanded federal
program of purchasing food and cloth
ing for unemployed.
He requested corporation officials
to cooperate with state and local re
lief organizations in determining "the
extent of unfilled need for food and I
clothing among people on relief." j
The request followed a White House!
conference at which Wallace,
Sect e-
tary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau. j ()f rural 1(roject superintendents dis
Jr., and Assistant Works Progress j cussed feasibility of continuing a
portedIv dif!cussed u?e of ?1ro,ooo,,oo Cd debuted to c
; of . funds for th? pin.cha?e ofj various districts
; farm Parplu5CS for distribution to the Districts represent
1 , , .,
.Aun.iniSiiat.or .-uorey w uiiams re-
needv,
The inclusion of "clothing'
lace's order was regarded a:
ing intention to expand pi
operations of the corporation. Here-
toforc, the corporation has purchased
only surplus foods, principally per-
ishables.
Funds for surplus purchases arc
derived from a fund made up by set-
ting aside SO per cent of import duties. ! made history last night at Bucking
amounting to alout ? 120,000,000 aihaiu palace when she sang "Nice
ye.ar. Expenditures, however, have
averaged only about S:j0,0of?onf a
vear.
FIND YOUTH SANE
NEW YORK, .Tune
(UP) Don-
aid Carroll Jr found sane by Bel
levue hesDital psychiatrists in a week-
long examination ordered after a jury !
freed him of murder charges in the
slaying of 18-year-old Charlotte Mat
thiesen was formally released from
custody today.
County Judge Thomas Downs sign
ed the release of the 16-ycar-old
high school student after reading thtj
report submitted by the psychiatrists
who examind him.
The boy had been in custody since
last March 21 when he killed his
sweetheart in what was planned as
a suicide pact because she was about
to become a mother. He lost his nerve
after shooting the girl and calied the
police.
Had the jury which acquitted him
"bv reason of insar.it v" not failed tc
add the words at the time of the
crime" Donald would have gone free
May 27. The jury's failure made it
mandatory upon Judire Downs to or
der the examination.
MUST FILE SCHEDULE
LINCOLN, June 4 (UP) Inter
state truckers operating in Nebraska
will be required to file interstate rate
sclieclnlcs
with the state railway
commission, it was announced today.
Chaiiman Floyd L. P.ollen explain
ed the railway commission has haa
no way of corroborating testimonies
of interstate motor truckers concern
ing rates they charged when they
apply for state certificates.
The commission adopted unani
mouslv resolutions establishing vol
ume rates on
truck load shipments
of burlap bags and classifying in
greater details rates 011 transporta
tion of agricultural implements.
WILL MAKE SURVEY
LINCOLN. June 3 (UP) State
Auditor W. H. Pi ice announced today
that his office for the first time will
make a comprehensive survey of the
outstanding bonded in-lcbtedness of
all Nebraska governmental subdivi
sions. He explained that less than half
of the governmental units with bond
ed indebtedness give proper notice
of compilation cf bonds to the county
clerk or state auditor's office.
WHEAT CROP 1,077,000.000
CHICAGO, June 2 (UP) Private
corporation experts today forecast '
for 193S the largest U. S. wheat :
crop ever harvested, the average!
estimate being 1,077,000,000 bush- j
c-ls as compared with the previous:
record crop of 1.009,000,000 in 1915 J
Favorable crop weather in the past!
north resulted in an increase of I
o7, 000. 000 in the average estimate of'
die winter wheat crop which experts
;oaay placed at t 1 0,000.0 0 j com
pared with their average estimates!
.1 month ago of 743,000.000 bushels, j
Today's forecast on winter wheat is;
m'y I0.000.00o bushels less than
; .lie
! 193
record winter wheat production!
approximately S0.000.000 111
WEATHER EEST SINCE 1921
LINCOLN. June 2 CP Nebras
ka moisture conditions are better
than at any time since 1921, Meteor-'
ologist T. A. Blair of the Lincoln!
1 weather bureau said today,
j Unusually heavy rains during May'
he reported have provided subsoil
eserve which will benefit corn. Biairi
emphasized that normal rains will 1
j be needed through the growing sea-;
.son to assure a good com crop. '
j Only two of the 25 stations re-'
jporting to the weather bureau here1
i were below normal for precipitation j
recived since January 1. They are'
Bridgeport and North Doup and each ;
lacks onlv a few hundredths of
equalling normal figures.
SUGGEST TRADE PUBLICATION
COLUMBUS. Neb.. June 1 (UP)
Superintendents of nine rural public
power districts have agreed to pre
sent a proposed trade publication
plan to the state association of rural
power districts.
j t n mppfinp' liere the ft cyr if-i 'A I i nil
small trade naner started last month
istoniers in
the
nted were eastern
Nebraska. southeastern Nebraska.
in al- i Norris. Lancaster count v. I'olk coun-indicat-'ty,
Cuming county, Burt county and
rchasinp j t he Loup river. The next meeting
will be held at Lincoln June 25.
!
j SINGS BEFORE KING
I
LONDON, June 2 (UP) Evelyn
Pall, a 20-year-old American singer,
Work if You Can Get It" to King
George and Queen Elizabeth, other
members of the royal family and
1,000 guests.
The occasion was the royal derby
night ball. Among the guests were
I". S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kenned;,
and Charles A. Lindbergh. Evelyn
"swung" it in typical American
fashion. The ball was considered
1 one of the most informal ever Held
at Buckingham pa'ice
UNABLE TO DOCK
LONDON. June 2 (UP) The liner j
Queen Mary was unable to dock at j
Cherbourg today during a severe
summer gale which lashed southern j
England, the English Channel and j
the French ports.
The wind velocity reached SO miles
an hour in many places and several
towns were flooded.
RECEIVES APPOINTMENT
LINCOLN. June 2 (UP) Francis
E. Fitzgerald of Omaha today was
namec' acting supervisor of statistics!
in the state assistance office. He I
succeeds Charles G. Now acek of j
Plattsmouth who was :i imoin t eei sta-!
tistician in the state unemployment
compensation division.
INDIAN CHIEF CARRIES MAILS
CHARLEYOIX. Mich. (UP) Ai
full-fledged Indian chief has carried!
the mail here for 25 years. Dan I
McSauba, 45-year-old postman, is I
the grandson and heir of a once-1
powerful Ottawa Indian chief w ho I
iu!ed in this area before its settle
1. .ent by white men.
PREFER AMERICAN CARS
JOHANNESBURG (UP)
South
Africans bought nearly eight times
more American motor cars and heavy
motor vehicles than British during
1937. the latest licensing figured is
sued by the Department of Census
and Statistics disclose.
CAPT. HERRESH0FF DIES
BRISTOL. It. .. June 2 (UP)
Captain Nathaniel Greene Herres
hoff. 90. pioneer yacht builder, who
constructed many successful defend
ers of the America's cup, died at
his home today.
Used cars, livestock, household
aoods all can be sold throuch i
inexpensive Journal Want Ads.
APPEAL BRIDGE BOND CASE
LINCOLN, June 3 (UP) Dakota
county commissioners appealed to
the supreme court today from a
ruling by District Judge Mark Ryan
invalidating Dakota county's pur
chase of a private bridge spanning
the Missouri river between Sioux
City, Iowa and South Sioux City, Ne
braska. Judge Rvan held that the 1925 in-
jterstate county bridge law permits
j counties to construct bridges or com
plete bridges already started but for
Jbids their purchase of an existing
nricige and the issuance of revenue
bonds.
The county bought the f ridge last
the M issouri river I
.Sioux City Bridge "company, a Dela-
ware corporation, and already has1
issued $l.SG5.00n in bonds. George'
j E. Leanier, South Sioux City attor-'
i ney. was the objector. Judge Ryan
ilirst ruled the county had authority;
jto bu the bridge but later vacated I
i the decree. ;
I i
i-'EART BOMB" INVENTED
I BY BRITISH MILITARY MAN
I j
j LONDON t UPt With the millions'
1 of dart players of Great Britain in
'mind. Maurice Darling, former army
'officer, has invented something new
in hand grenades the dart bomb. '
Darling says that he has submit-!
ted to the War Office a tiny hand j
grenade in the form of a dart, but
t iled with high explosive.
"The dart bomb should revolu-
tionize close warfare." he said. "On
a big ser.le they could be made at a
j cost of only fourpence each.
1 "When an enemy soldier is about
"0 or 4 0 feet away, a man with
good aim. such as the many dart
j players of this country, could draw
the pin and throw the explosive
dart. As soon as the point makes,
contact it will set off the explosive."
BRITISH YARDS BUILD
WARSHIPS FOR ARGENTINA
I BARROW -IN- FURNESS. Eng.
1 1'P 1 A training cruiser and three
! destroyers which are being built here
for the Argentine government are
i Hearing completion,
i The training cruiser La Argentina
has left Barrow for Birkenhead for
idry docking, preparatory to under-
going sea trials. This ship which
I was built by Yickers Armstrong Lid..
was launched on March 2G. 1&M7.
It carries a total complement of COO
officers and men. with special ar-
rangements for training of cadets. It
; is r. 1 11 feet long, and has an extreme ! shin and influence to a nationw ide
j breadth of 5C feet, (j inches. His- scale as organization details are com
j placement of C'ihi tons and it is j plcted.
.expected to develop 30 knots speed. I
! Of the three destroyers, the Buenos
j Aires has completed successful trials;
j the Enti e Rios is undergoing trials,
j and the Corrientes soon w ill make a
trial run.
SOUTH AMERICA TROUBLE
QUITO, Ecuador, June 3 (UP)
The -100-year dispute between Equa
dor and Peru over the vast jungle ;
district, the so-called Oriente. lias i
been intensified into armed conflict j
it was revealed today.
Forty Peruvian soldiers attacked i
an Ecuadorian patrol in the jungle'
country. Equador dispatced a t.harp!
note of protest to Peru. )
In Quito popular feeling against i
Peru ran high tod;
and n strong
1
ruard was placed around the Peru
vian legation.
The Oriente is
tangle of forests,
bv savages.
a vast, roadless
inhabited largeh
LEAVES LARGE ESTATE
LONDON. June 2 (UP) The will
of Lady Piunketl. who was killed
in an air crash at San Simeon. Calif.,
last February, was published today.
rev.aUng that she left a net estate
of $2,204,510 to her mother, Fanny
Ward. Death duties on the estate to
ital nearly $S7.000.
j Lord Plunkett, who was killed in
j t lie .lame crash, died intestate. He
I ieft ? net fortune of approximately
$3.2S OeiO.
DENIES MOTION
LINCOLN. June 4 (UP) The su-;
pre me court denied seven motions
for rehearing inc luding Kirk, admin-
istrator vs. Taekett. Richardson coun-j
ty. in which Kirk's claim as the rep-;
resentutive of relatives for the estate
of Grant Oeamb. Rulo bachelor, was
denied and validity of the will grant-!
ing it to Taekett upheld.
CONVICTS BUY RADIOS
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. (UP)
ing their own money, inmates of
!u
Prince Albert penitentiary
have
bought a microphone and a loud-!
speaker to bring the
ter t iiunent of radio
The prisoners devised
news and on
to their crll?.
a subscription
IVn for purchase of the apparatus.
Tariff League
Seeks to Gain
Farm Support
Old Organization Revived to Com
bat Lowering of Imports of
Foreign Farm Products.
FRESNO. Cal. (CP) California
farm and industrial leaders are re
cruiting members for the Grower's
Tariff League to protest, eventually
on a nation-wide scale, the lowering
iof American tariffs on
foreign agri-
; c --i 1 1 11 ru I products.
The league was organized here.
Its aim is to protect farmers from
the competition of imported food
stuffs. In reality, it is a revival of a
body, inactive for many years, that
waged a war on tariff-lowering poli
cies of previous administrations.
Spokesmen for the league aim a
specific attack at the proposed re
ciprocal trade treaties now being ne
gotia'.ed by Secretary of State Oordll
Lull.
Publisher Heads Group
Included among suppo.ters of the
new group are representatives of
isu.h powerful farm organizations as
the California Almond Growers Ex-
chan-re. the California Fig Institute.
: the Associated Fanners of California,
i Inc.. and the California Prune and
Apricot Growers Association. John
! K. Pickett, of San Francisco, pub-
: Usher of the Pacific Rural Press, a
! w k !y farm paper, is chairman,
j K. Clement Hoist of San Fra li
cisco. a large-scale grower, declared
in a speech at the recent organizing
(invention here that "now is the
time to enter a formal, organized
protest against the administration's
policy of lowering import duties.
. . . The reciprocity treaties would
only increase the harm to agriculture
resulting from our present low-tariff
policy."
Fear Widespread Injury
O'her speakers pointed out that
the reciprocal pacts and the result
ing increase in agricultural imports
threaten widespread injury, and in
som
t rs.
C.
cases ruin, to American grow-
A. Hawkins, of Fresno. long a
of low tariffs, declared that
in ess conditions in this counirv.
foe-
j "b
at their present low level, as well as
damage d' ne to industrial trends and
lowered agricultural prices, can be
' attributed to tariff rate cuts."
j Leaders of the anti-tariff body
'plan, to extend the league's member-
TESTS FLUNKED ON SLAN
GUAGE BY PROFESSORS
I FORT WORTH. Tex. (UP Sim
j pie campus "slanguage" flunked four
i Texas Christian Unive rsity faculty
members, who for once were called
j open to answer rather than ques
1 lion their students,
j Three of the four professors have
I doctors' degrees and the fourth is an
Knghsh teacher. Dr. Colby I). Hall,
dean of men. made a grade of 70 on
10 every-day campus words although
he knew the precise definition of
only C. Dr. Newton Gaines, head
of the T. C. U. physics department,
answered " of 10. the same as Prof.
Mabel Major of the English department-
Dr. Clinton Lockhart. teacher
of Old Testament in the Bible college,
i could answer only three-.
I The terms that the teachers
j couldn't define, or sometimes even
j pn-nouiK e. included :
j "Gaudy frail" a pretty girl.
j "Sourpuss" an unpleasant per-
, son.
j "Slurp" to eat
I "Slap - happy
; bended.
j "Rtt b" n sc hooi
; "High as a kite"
or drink noisily,
siliy c r light
dance. simple drunk.
DEATH REVEALS EXTORTION
McCOOK. Neb..
June 2 ( UP)
Alfred Barnett, 82, pioneer lumber
man and financier died last night in
a hospital here where he had been
confined for two months by illness.
With his death it beca.ne l.r.own
that a few weeks before being taken
to the hospital Barnett had received
two extortion notes, one asking ?("'),
00i) and the second 5.'i5.o0 ).
The writer of the extortion rotes
specified that the money be tossed
fram an automobile at the western
edge cf the city.
Barnett was inclined to consider th"
fiist note a hoax but unon receipt of
the second demand the case wa;
turned over to the Federal Bureau
of Investigation. Agents laid in wait
or three occasions for the extortionist
without avail.
Barnett, father-in-law of John M -
Carl, former comptroller of the -ui-
ic:iev was regaicieei as one ci western
.4r.ar:a'r- wealthiest
mcr
lb
a native of Ga'.csburg, Illinois coai
irg here in 1S82.