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Show RREHT EWEHTS 'ASS KM TILE STRIKE IS BEGUN IE AUTHORITY OF RETAIL OAL DEALERS RESIGNS EDWARD W. PICKARD G, Western Newspaper Union. XTILB workers started their ant strike on schedule time, dlately after Labor day, but was no Immediate Indications GEN. HUGH JOHNSON, through a spokesman, has flatly denied the story of his dispute with Donald Don-ald Richberg and Secretary of Labor La-bor Perkins over control of the NRA, but well-informed persons in Washington believe it Is true. The President calmed the storm, but put off the decision. The NRA Is being reorganized temporarily to serve until the next congress gives It permanent per-manent form, and for the present Johnson retains his supremacy. To bring about greater efficiency and economy the codes of the NRA are being realigned. Industry Is divided di-vided Into 22 classes, the initial move toward cutting down the number num-ber of codes from 6S2 to about 250 and grouping them In ten grand divisions. di-visions. Mergers are relied on to make the drastic reduction In the number of sodes. Codes with similar or related Interests are grouped together. Allied Al-lied businesses will thus receive Identical treatment on common problems, officials said. The codes also are expected to be easier and cheaper to administer. The 22 classifications In turn are based on four fundamental groups as follows: Producing Industries Food, textiles, tex-tiles, leather and fur, ferrous metals, met-als, non-ferrous metals, non-mtal-lic products, fuel, lumber and timber, tim-ber, chemicals and paints and drugs, paper, rubber. Fabricating Industries Equipment, Equip-ment, manufacturing, graphic arts, construction. Service Industries Public utilities, util-ities, transportation, communications, communica-tions, finance, amusements. Distributing trades Professions and services, wholesale and retail codes. FERGUSONISM" in Texas was ' struck a probably fatal blow when James V. Allred, the young attorney at-torney general of the state, won the if 1 or its success or failure. For the United Textile Workers, Francis J. Gorman claimed at the beginning that It was 50 per cent effective. He said he hoped to rally an Increasing per-centage per-centage of the workers to the strike and that he under the cotton garment code, met In New York and adopted a resolution refusing to abide by the recent order of President Roosevelt Roose-velt lowering hours and increasing wages for 250,000 workers In the Industry. The order affected 4,000 units spread over 24 states. The manufacturers voted to defy the President's order as "unjustifiable, "unjustifi-able, unwarranted, burdensome and inequitable." The manufacturers authorized and directed their counsel, Raymond A. Walsh of Washington, to take such steps If necessary as would protect the rights and Interests of the members of the Industry. MANY of the dairy cattle bought by the government In drouth areas are of high breed and so will not be slaughtered. The federal relief administration gave out a statement saying: "It Is planned to either exchange some of these high breed drouth cattle for scrub cattle now In the possession of relief or rural rehabilitation reha-bilitation families, or to Issue them to such families where the need has been determined. Under this program pro-gram the low-grade scrub cattle would be slaughtered where exchanges ex-changes were made. The exchanges, or issuance of cattle without exchange, ex-change, would be made upon recommendation recom-mendation of the various county relief re-lief administrations and county rural rehabilitation supervisors." DISMISSAL of Maj. Gen. Benjamin Benja-min D. Foulois from his post as chief of the army air corps was demanded by the house military affairs af-fairs subcommittee, and Secretary of War Dern refused to act until the committee gives Foulois "a full and complete hearing." It Is presumed, pre-sumed, therefore, there will be another an-other Inquiry Into the corps. The committee "had charged Foulois broke the law by approving the buying buy-ing of planes by negotiated contract con-tract Instead of competitive bidding. bid-ding. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TREAS-URY MORGENTHAU, In his first speech since taking office, forecast fore-cast an eventual inflation of $2,800,- Democratic n o m 1-nation 1-nation for governor in the Democratic run-off primary. By a majority of about 45,000 votes he de-feated de-feated Tom F. Hunter, who was backed for the nomination nom-ination by "Ma" Ferguson, the present pres-ent governor, and Li A 000,000 by announcing announc-ing the treasury expects ex-pects sooner or later to apply its gold "profit" to a reduction of the national na-tional debt "For the present this $2,800,000,000 is un-der un-der lock and key," Mr. Morgen-thau Morgen-thau said. "Most of TO A. might bring about loan a strike of 150,000 1 employees in related lndus- i the other hand, George A. ', head of the Cotton Textile iite, did not believe the strike effective, especially in the . He said about 100,000 hands working in the southern mills hat only 10,000 had quit their : These figures were scoffed at ion officials. In New England of the mills were opened aft-bor aft-bor day, for a large percent-t percent-t their employees are not mem-of mem-of the union and are not In Uhy with the strike, "ras predicted that there would isiderable violence both In the and In New England. The junlsts were active, as always j there Is trouble, but Gorman arned the union members not , the Reds get control. J federal labor relations board, 4 by Lloyd Garrison, made L efforts to prevent the textile ', without success. The gov-nt gov-nt authorities, however, had it plain that the strike would Urectly financed by the plac- the strikers on relief rolls. A was dealt a severe blow hen the Retail Coal Code au-y au-y resigned In a body In pro-galnst pro-galnst the way the NRA Is Jng the code. The seven mem-!who mem-!who were the ruling body un-e un-e Blue Eagle for 80,000 retail dealers, are: Roderick Ste-, Ste-, New York, chairman; Milton .linson, Jr., Chicago, vice chair-j chair-j Clarence V. Beck, St Louis; ;m A. Clark, Boston; Charles jrrar, Raleigh, N..C; Edward pobs, Reading, Pa, ; and John :hlan, Pullman, HI. Their tation was due to the NRA's that It can revise any .t any time without giving no- the Industry Involved, now emasculated by the NRA, 'de is a futile and unworkable while as originally agreed It represented a constructive ""or Improvement of conditions i industry," the members told l) Johnson. a public statement accompany-eir accompany-eir letter of resignation, the ffity revealed that the NRA's to prosecute coal code chls-nd chls-nd Its failure to back up the liuthorlty In Its attempts to estructive price cutting were i root of the dispute. VUSE of his unwavering op-sition op-sition to what he considered travagaot expenditures of the ment and to its Inflationary ner nusDana, james , . . E. Ferguson, who J. V. Allred formerly occupied the office until ousted by the legislature. The Fergusons Fer-gusons have controlled Democratic politics In Texas for some twenty years, but their sway probably Is now coming to an end. Mr. Allred is only thirty-five years old, but has come to the top swiftly. His nomination nom-ination is equivalent to election. T TPTON SINCLAIR, the Socialist author who turned Democrat in order to run for the Democratic nomination for governor of California, Cali-fornia, succeeded in his purpose. In the primaries he ran far ahead of George Creel, who was director of propaganda during the World war; Justus S. Wardell, conservative, and Milton K. Young, the Democratic candidate In 1930. Sinclair campaigned cam-paigned on a plan "to end poverty In California" which was set forth in a book he published. It calls for the state to take over and operate defunct factories and businesses and farms acquired because of tax delinquencies as a means of placing plac-ing the unemployed. Sinclair's opponent op-ponent In the election will be Frank F. Merriam, the Republican acting governor. Senator Hiram W. Johnson, John-son, easily won renomination and is on the Republican, Democratic, Progressive and Commonwealth tickets; his opponent Is George R. Kirkpatrick, Socialist South Carolina Democrats will have to hold a runoff primary to decide between Cole L. Blease, former for-mer governor and senator, and Olin D. Johnston, young attorney of Spartansburg, for the gubernatorial nomination. T3RITISH people the world over - rejoiced at the announcement that Prince George, fourth son of the king, was engaged to wed the It by authority or Secretary congress. Is segre-Morgenthau segre-Morgenthau gated ,n the s0 called stabilization fund, and for the present we propose to keep It there. But I call your attention to the fact that ultimately we expect this "profit to flow back Into the stream of our other revenues and thereby reduce the national debt" The "profit" in question accrued through a bookkeeping operation when the amount of gold fixed by law as the equivalent of $1 was reduced from 23.22 grains to 13.71 grains. This meant that an ounce of gold was worth $20.67 one day and the next It had a value of $35. Just previously the treasury had taken title to all the monetary gold In the country, paying for It at the $20.67 rate. On every ounce It made a "profit" of $14.33, the difference between the purchase figures and $35. The secretary gave in figures his estimate of the cost of the New Deal Against an Increase of $6,000,-000,000 $6,000,-000,000 in the national debt he asserted, as-serted, various assets should be deducted. de-ducted. He listed them as follows: An increase of $1,600,000,000 In the treasury's cash balance since March 4, 1033. The gold "profit" amounting to $2,800,000,000. An increase in the net assets of agencies wholly owned or financed by the government amounting to $1,095,000,000. AFTER five days of deliberation, the high council of the Salvation Salva-tion Army sitting In London, elected elect-ed Commander Evangeline Booth Douglas has ;d as director budget He ng been fight-ainst fight-ainst certain admiriistra-policies, admiriistra-policies, with-ail. with-ail. The two- "budget plan s prospective i of seven bii- loveiy rrincess Marina, Ma-rina, niece of the late King Constan-tlne Constan-tlne of Greece. The announcement from the palace in London Lon-don said: "It Is with the greatest pleasure that the king and queen announce an-nounce the betrothal betroth-al of their dearly lollars, pre- ' . to congress Lew,s Dou8la! -tnuary, did not have his ap-j ap-j nor had the billion dollar icy appropriation bill and hemes for the purchase of id silver. It was said his res-n res-n was finally brought about announcement of Secretary ithau that the so-called profit billion eight hundred million resulting from the devalua-f devalua-f the gold dollar would be a curtail the public debt ln-iby ln-iby the New Deal. Since cur-,is cur-,is ultimately to be Issued this "profit," and since s only about five billion dol-. dol-. currency now in circulation, jrgenthau plan contemplates r cent Inflation. President appointed as act-Iget act-Iget director Daniel W. Bell, anent employee of the treas-was treas-was understood in Washing-it Washing-it there would be a general igement In the Treasury de-! de-! nt which would concentrate Jal powers in the Hands of .ry Morgenthau. Several offi-ho offi-ho are not in full sympathy i le New Deal will be weeded , 1ESENTATIVES of the cot-' cot-' I garment Industry from all 3 of the country, Including i of 15 Individual Industries general of the army. Thus the supreme su-preme command of the organization Is returned to the Booth family after aft-er a break of five years. Miss Booth, who is sixty-eight years old, is the only daughter of Gen. William Booth, founder of the army. For thirty years she has been at the head of the army In America, and she is a citizen of the United States. FIFTY-SEVEN women have been named by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as members of the national na-tional committee to direct the 1934 Mobilization for Human Needs. Mrs. Roosevelt is the chairman and those appointed vice chairmen are: Miss Jane Addams of Chicago, Mrs. August Au-gust Belmont and Miss Ida M.Tarbell of New York city, Mrs. Frederic M. Paist of Wayne, Pa., and Mrs. Marcus C. Sloss of San Francisco. TRAGIC death marked the otherwise other-wise highly successful national air races at Cleveland. Douglas Davis of Atlanta, Ga., veteran speed pilot was killed during the flying of the Thompson trophy races at the close of the meet His little monoplane, mono-plane, traveling at more than 250 miles an hour, swerved from its course, pulled into a vertical climb and fell from a height of 800 feet. At the time of the accident Davis was leading In the race, which was won by CoL Roscoe Turner. beloved son Prince Prince George George to princess Marina, daughter of Prince and Princess Nicolas of Greece, to which union the king has gladly given his consent" The princess, who was educated In Athens, Paris and London, speaks fluently French, English, Greek, Russian and German. She Inherited all the beauty and charm of her Russian mother and the pleasing pleas-ing personal qualities of her father. STREET riots, strikes and other disorders were prevalent In Cuba, and the cabinet suddenly resigned. re-signed. President Mendieta proclaimed pro-claimed martial law throughout the Island republic The cabinet resigned re-signed because the president bitterly bit-terly reprimanded the ministers for tolerating the invasion of their departments by the hordes of students stu-dents and revolutionaries who, armed with machine guns, forced employees to strike, while the secretaries sec-retaries remained impassive. |