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Accident Insuranet 7 " Yoa - cannot ' afford ' to b althout the Travel and Traf fic Accident Insurance which la issued to Statesman sub scribers for only 91 a year. EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR N. 189 ; - - ., .. FOUNDED 1051 y V?' :" :- - , " J :"; SWOPE GIVES i i II PROGRAM f m. mm mmm ' 1 - ' ..-''" FOR BUSINESS Permanent : Self - Discipline By. Industrial Groups Is f Proposed Rotation. Plan r Adopted for NRA Board? New Mem- Jber$ are Named " 'I'" . - ; By James cope , Associated Press Staff "Writer . WASHINGTON, Not. 1. UP) Substitution . of permanent self gor$ment of business and in- " dustry "for the temporary work of the' National Recovery admln- " 1st ration wm.m nro nosed todav-bv Gerard - Swop and received im-J mediate agreement irom Hugh s. , Johnson. : The New York Industrialist out lined the plan at a meeting of the business advisory and planning council of the Commerce depart met. Later Johnson, the indus trial administrator, indicated his agreement in a press conference. About the same time, Henry I. Harrimon, president of the Cham ber ef Commerce of the United States, was telling reporters that he. favored the principle of the plan. Ilarriman said there had been a g r e a t deal of dissatisfaction among business men over the NRA program and that "very lit tle of the present NRA" would be retained under, the Swope pro posal. " Action on the Swope plan was postponed for committee study, at the suggestion of Harriman in the council meeting. The plan would merge the chamber of commerce with various other groups that are representative o f business and from the. new organization would be named a board of ap peals that would arbitrate all questions that arise in. the appli cation of codes. - Swope said in a-statement to night: ' : "There Is nothing In my pro posal intended to supplant NRA, or to set up any industrial self B discipline without governmental participation or to omit the or ganization of labor parallel with the organization of industry. ' "What I proposed was my per sonal Idea of a goal for ultmate . attainment. It is built on the thought that industrial organiza tion is necessary to Industrial self discipline and that I take it, is intrinsic in the Indus tral Recov ery act. "There Is no difference of op inion between the recovery ad- ministration and myself and my' temporary relief by another in dustrialist on the advisory board does not separate me from the NRA.. - I am still ' on the labor board of NRA and my services are at all times available to the administrator." The Swope plan overshadowed the formal announcement of new policy whereby the industrial ad visory board of NRA, appointed by Secretary Roper of Commerce, Is to be given new personnel at frequent Intervals, beginning im mediately. The new men are to be drawn -from the membership of . the business advisory and plan ning council of the department of commerce, the group that met to day. Retiring members will re turn to service in their turn. Purpose of the rotation is not to burden the industrialists with too long -continued service' in Washington, and to give other members of the coucll opportunity to tee NRA at work from the in side. Walter C. Teagle, chairman, and president of Standard Oil of New Jersey ? retired today. The chairmanship was expected to go to Land, president Of the Nation - Turn to Fage 2, CoL 1 Bii Bright siness Spots NEW YORK, Not. 1 VP) A gain of 5.8 per cent in electrie power output for the week ended Qct. 28 over the previous week was reported today by the Edison Electrical .Institute. The Rocky Mountain r.gion had the best gain of any section of the nation, 22.8 per cent. CHICAGO, Not. 1 (ff) Ed ward D. Duffield of the Pruden tial Insurance company reported today the company's - business barometer had shown a continu ous upturn for four months. He aid cancellations bad dropped and loans lessened. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Not. 1 UP) October sales of Studebaker automobiles were the best Octo ber since 1928, the company an nounced today, gale In October exceeded 1000 and . Indications were for 7600 sales In November. record for the month, ' NEW-YORK, Sot 1 fThe New York Central railroad re- Ported toda It handled 7,2 3 cars of freight last week, an in .. ... crease of 6.4 oTer a year ago. , The preTious week was 2.f above From F. D. R. to I iJl " ' A, ,- ill 1 i Brigadier General Lnoius Holbrook, pictured as he placed the wreath sent by President Roosevelt on grill-work surrounding grave of Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, L. I., on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the late president's birth. SHOUT SALES NET Former Banker Shows Tax Payments; Sales Make Losses WASHINGTON. Nov. 1. UP) Some of the Chase National bank stock sold short by a personal company of Albert H. Wiggin, then its head, for a 14,000,000 profit was traced today before the senate banking committee into a market pool participated in by a bank affiliate. Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel, developed from statistical data and testimony by Wiggin that during most of the period in 1929 that Wiggin was selling the bank stock short, the pool was buying and selling Chase securities to stabilize the market. Wiggin told the committee that the purpose of his large short sales was to "postpone" tax pay ments. He also presented a formal tabulation to show that he had paid 11,624,326 in federal and state levies for the last five years. His family and personal corpor ations, the statement showed, paid 83,000,578 in taxes, with 82, 128,793 to the federal govern ment Wiggin himself paid 81', 365,234 of his total tax outlay In federal levies. The heavy-set banker, who re tired from the bank at the begin ning of this year, said he saw "nothing wrong" in taking all steps legally possible to reduce tax payments, and that the law was "strictly obeyed." MS GEM TO BIT CHIEF GENEVA, Not. X. (JP) Norman H. Davis, American ambassador at large, "left by train for Paris to night en route to Washington to consult President Roosevelt re garding the disarmament situa tion. Shortly before he departed, Mr. Davis received an Invitation by telephone from the French for eign minister, Joseph, Paul-Bon-cour, to visit him in Paris tomor row. Mr. Davis, who turned over his duties as head of the American arms delegation to Hugh R. Wil son, minister to Switzerland, may also see Premier Albert Sarraut in the French capital. Davis will sail aboard the Pres ident Roosevelt Saturday. E Because Theodore Arens of Portland has failed to post a bond to cover performing his contract at the specified time, the state highway commission will readver tise for bids for widening and re surfacing the North Capitol street entrance of the Pacific highway in this city. V Officials of the state highway department said yester day the new bids would be opened and the contract awarded at the November 16 meeting of the eom mrsslon. Arena bid 837,299 or about 85000 less than the esti mate for the job prepared by the department. A number of local men seek to gain employment on the Job. PROFIT F0RWIG6 It CtLLH Oil 10 WID 16 Memory of T R. 5 'T y SIT TODAY TO Advisors Predict No Gold Duel With Foreign Governments WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. () Jesse M: Jones, chairman of the reconstruction corporation, an nounced toniffht that thn ration would begin purchase of gold In foreign markets tomor row. Jones said: "Today the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation, under the au thority vested in it by the Presi dent, has authorized the Federal Reserve bank of New York to dis pose of the notes of the corpora tion and take in payment foreign gold imported after November 1 1933." He refused to amplify the state ment, in response to questions by reporters other than to say the actual 'purchasing of gold would begin tomorrow. Jones did as sert, however, that the Federal Reserve bank of New York would be the government's sole agent. Jones said the price to be paid would be announced Thursday morning. The President's advisors Indi cated that negotiations with Great Britain were proceeding satisfac torily by predicting that the com ing operations would not have the result of pitting Washington and London against each other in a foreign exchange duel. However, they would say noth ing. They declined to confirm a report that the banks of England and France would become the agents of the reconstruction cor poration and the federal reserve system in making the gold pur chases, but conceded this was a possibility.. Sir Frederick Lelth-Ross, spe clal representative of the Brit ish treasury, called at the White House late today with Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British ambassador, and although the engagement was made to dscnss war debts. It of fered excellent opportunity to talk of the recent monetary develop ments. (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Late Sports PORTLAND, Ore., Not. 1. UP) Billy Edwards, 199, of Kansas City defeated Ted Thye, 196, of Portland, two falls out of three, in the main event on tonight's wrestling card here. Edwards took the first fall in 20 minutes with a headlock. They evened it up ten minutes later with a series of shoulder butts and a body press,' but lost the match when Edwards won the deciding fall in 5 minutes with another headlock. Al Karasick, 191, Portland, and Billy Burns, 195, Omaha, wrest led fire rounds to a draw in the semi-windup. Leo Jensen, 162, Vancouver, B. C., defeated Glenn Stone, 167, of Olympia, Wash., taking one fall. Bobby Evans, 510, Long Island, N. Y won the preliminary from Joe Reynolds, 208, Portland, get ting one fall. , PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 1. UP)r Washington high school continued its endefeated march toward the Portland tnterscholastle champion ship when it defeated Grant high, 14 to 0, in a game fought here tonight. The Colonials scored two touchdowns and a s a f e t y..Tom Collins, sensational Colonial back, scored both touchdowns, one after fi-7rd dash through the mud. BUT FOU GOLD STRIKE LULL US GOVERNORS E 0 T0ISR1T0N Farm Disturbances Continue In Wisconsin; Two Cheese Factories Bombed Governors Will Propose to President That AH Farm ers be Licensed WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. UP) Three middle western gover nors arrived here late today to ask for inflation and Immediate price-fixing for farm products In a bold program aimed at briagiag quick relief to farmers. The governors Herring of Iowa, Berry of South Dakota, and Langer of North Dakota reached Washington by plane and will be joined tomorrow by Governors Olson of Minnesota and Schmedeman of Wisconsin, who are traveling by train. (By the Associated Press As violence flared in two in stances, the governors of four corn belt states took their farm strike problems to President Roosevelt at Washington Wednesday. One governor, Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota, a farmer-laborite, took with .him a proposal that every farmer in the nation be licensed. Licenses would be revoked, under his plan, for violation of an agree ment setting the amount of prod ucts each farmer could market. Olson and four other governors, Langer of North Dakota, Berry of South Dakota, Herring of Iowa and Schmedeman of Wisconsin, drafted at a meeting in Des Moines a list of demands for presentation to the president, in cluding an NRA code for farmers, controlled inflation, and quicker mortgage refinancing. Milo Reno, president of the Na tional Farmers Holiday associa tion, said at Des Moines that the farm Btrike was in a state of "in active suspension'' pending Presi dent' Roosevelt's action on the governor's recommendations. He declared, however, the strike was not ended and would not "un til our demands are met." At Plymouth and Fond du Lac, Wis., bombs shattered windows of (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) N-W Export Association Buys Wheat PORTLAND, Ore.. Nov. 1 UP) Approximately 200,000 bushels of wheat have been sold to for eign markets by the North Pa cific Emergency Export associa tion, created to export the wheat surplus of the Pacific northwest it was announced here today. The- wheat, purchased by the association from growers at the domestic price, was sold to the foreign markets at the world price, and the government, under a marketing agreement reached here several weeks ago, was to pay the difference, estimated to be about 20 cents a bushel. The buying price today was 70 cents for No. 1 sacked wheat at Port land, a reduction from yester day's price which reflected the drop In the world market. The largest sale, described as "halt a cargo," was made to Ire land. Japan bought 1000 tons. Another parcel, amount not giv en, was taken to move to a mill ing port on the west coast of South America. The amount of 200,000 bushels was understood to be approxi mately half the amount the emer gency export association has bought from northwest growers In the past two weeks. 16 Year Old Boy Admits Slaying, Coos County Man MARSHFIELD, Ore., Not. 1. UP) Raymond Frye, 16, a resi dent of the Norway-Myrtle Point highway district, today was held in the county Jail at Coquille after having signed a written confession in the death of B. U. Blackman, 45, who came to Coos county from Los Angeles a year ego to take up a homestead. Blaekman's body was found burled beneath brush near his home last night by Joe Ellis, a neighbor. Frye ascribed the shoot ing as accidental, saying he mis took Blackman for a deer, offi cers said. BOMB EXPLODES, VIENNA i VIENNA, Nov. 1. UP) A bomb exploded tonight In Chancellor Dolfuss patriot front headquar ters in the Heitzing district of Vi enna. Windows were smashed, but otherwise there was no dam age.' Later in the evening a pa per bomb exploded in front of a Heitzing synagogue, likewise with out causing damage. OTHERS TO FACE EEDERAL TRIAL IN INSULL DEAL No Further Attempts to Ex tradite Sam Insull; to Try Associates Insull Gets Congratulations In Athens; is Now Thinking of Work CHICAGO, Nov. 1. UP) Samuel Insult's exile in Greece probably will go on undisturbed, it was in dicated today, and upon a score of business and financial leaders will fall federal prosecution in the collapse of his utility companies. The federal government and the state of Illinois have spent per haps 8100,000 in futile attempts to bring Insull back to Chicago for trial. The Greek courts have twice refused his removal. A high government official said today there probably would be no further federal attempts to extra dite him. The state already has desisted. Insull appears assured of spending the remainder of his days in Greece, where he has mov ed to obtain citizenship. He will be 74 years old November 11. But there will be no leniency shown toward 24 Chicagoans nam ed in two lndi;trsnts charging mail fraud and violation of the federal bankruptcy laws, the same federal official said. They were men who served as officers or di rectors of utility companies in the 84,000,000,000 Insull network. Also named in the Indictment were Insull's son, Samuel, Jr., and his brother, Martin J., who is fighting extradition from Canada. Collapse of the attempts to re m o v e the elder Insull probably will result in speeding of the pro secution of t-e other defendants, federal officials said. ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 1. UP) Samuel InsulT thought of Work to day after months of extradition proceedings. "I will start to work," he told a throng of friends who "came to felicitate him on the refusal of a Greek court to permit his return to the United States to face bank ruptcy charges in connection with the collapse of his middle west utilities systems. But, he added, smilingly, "I will talk later." A night of sleep had erased the cares he has felt in the months of hearings. He held a sheaf of congratulatory telegrams and he appeared in excellent spirits. Newspapers saw in the verdict "the highest pinnacle of Greek Justice" and expressed pleasure that the justice of a small coun try was not permitted to be pre judiced by a large nation. The formV Chlcagoan express ed his gratefulness for courtesies shown him and said he understood public opinion concerning the ver dict "was very sweeping.'' if WEIMAR, Germany, Nov. 1. UP) Chancellor Adolf Hitler In an address tonight declared that peace and order reigned in Ger many and asked the world "to leave ns in peace." He spoke at a mass meeting. There is unrest in other parts of the world, he said, adding, "Let the world leave ns in peace and seek our own salvation, and may the others Qnd theirs in their own way." Inveighing against the post-war Versailles treaty, he asserted that "We can not affirm too often be fore the world that the charge that Germany is guilty for the war is not true and was subscrib ed to against our better judgment by intimidation." Regarding the arms question. Hitler said he would never bow to threats. ' A plebiscite on the administra tion's foreign policy will be eon ducted November 12. H mm i New Pairs Capture Honors In Statesman Tournament Official compilation of the north-south, east -west scores at The Statesman's bridge tourna ment late yesterday, showed two new first place pairs had won hon ors in their-division Tuesday night. They were Mrs. T. A. Liyes ley and. Mrs. William Walton, playing east and west, section one; and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton V. Bernhard, playing east and west, section two. " ' A very narrow margin separat ed a number of teams. Indicating skill In playing Identical eards was almost exactly the same be- Ltween numerous teams. - Tuesday's Elections Dec ide Prohibition, - . r . ... . Settle New York Race Six States Ballot on Repeal With Three More "Wet" States Required; New York Race Is Important By CECIL B. DICKSON Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (AP) Voters in six states on next Tuesday will pencil on ballots the symbols that administration chieftains believe will fit together to chron icle the end of federal prohibition. . Thirty-thred states already have voted for repeal, leav ing; but three additional ratifications necessary to complete Bury Ibanez In Native Soil icente Blasco Ibanez, famed Spanish author exiled by former King Alfonso, who was buried October 80 in his native soil, and who was accorded a funeral such as few Spanish kings have been given. Although Ibanez d 1 e d in 1928, in France, bis body was not returned to his own country until this late date. Eighty planes escorted the cruis er Jaime I as it entered the har bor of Valencia, Spain, bearing the remains of the man who had denounced King Alfonso. Cen tral Press Photo. TO SEE ROOSEVELT TJNIONTOWN, Pa., Nov. 1. UP) Fayette county's union miners tonight petitioned President Roosevelt for an audience to tell their side of the fight waged through 14 weeks of turmoil in an effort to get open recognition from steel company-operated soft coal mines. More than 100 local leaders, who claim to represent 15,000 coal diggers, decided against im mediate return to the pits, as had been ordered by high officials of the United Mine Workers of America, and appointed eight men to see the President. Their leader, Martin F. Ryan, was named chairman of the com mittee. Seeing that he was hope 1 e s s 1 J outnumbered, William Hynes, ISO-pound district presi dent who had nrged the men to return to work, agreed to ask Mr. Roosevelt for an. interview. He was made a member of the com mittee. Snow Continues On Cascade Tops BEND, Ore., Nov. 1 UP) Ap proximately two feet of snow blanketed the Todd Lake country in the Three Sisters foothills to night as a heavy snow continued to fall along the Cascade divide. The McKenzio Pass highway was kept open by highway main tenance crews, which were busy throughout the day removing snow from the summit road. Considerable snow was also reported along the higher levels of The Dalles-California high way between Bend and Klamath Falls. Play Tuesday night added to the interest over the grand prises Inasmuch as a number of former first and second place winners dropped down one or more notches in. this week's play. Three more evenings' play remain. Each night is complete Itself although the placing in a pair's division nay bs used towards the grand prize. Tuesday night's play was fea tured by unusually attractive Hal lowe'en decorations furnished Jointly by Mrs. Dan Kellehar and the Marion hoteL Grinning pump kins in various parts of the room Turn to Page t, CoL 4). rammmmmwmmmmmmmmaBZZXSzmx. i5 5 i MINERS 111 OUT to Roosevelt tne 36 required lor a eonstltu- tional change. No state thus far has voted for continuance of pro hibition. The views of approximately one fifth of the total population will be recorded in Tuesday's ballot ting in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ken tucky, Utah, North and South Carolina. In tbe event of repeal, this will be the first time in United States history that an amendment to the constitution has been eliminated. Actual repeal, bow ever, cannot become effective un til December 5 or 6, the last dates of constitutional conven tions in the six voting states and Maine, which previously voted for repeal. Should four of the six states voting Tuesday fail to ratify, the possibility of repeal would be de layed probably for 'at least a year, since the nine remaining states have made no provisions for elections until next fall. Besides the prohibition vote, national interest also is centered (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) CU BAN STAGE SET S Bomb Kills Police Expert; Santiago Has Gener al Strike By EDMUND A. CHESTER Associated Press Staff Writer HAVANA, Nov. 1. UP) A bomb exploded at police headquarters tonight, fatally injuring an explo sives expert and wounding eight others, two of whom probably will die. The bomb was found outside police headquarters and had been brought for examination to Jesus Garcia Delgado, police bomb ex pert, who was preparing to exam ine It when it exploded. Delgado died In a hospital. Another policeman and a civil ian wireless expert were reported dying. Four other officers were reported, at the emergency hospi tal to be in a serious condition. Jose Carames, one of two po licemen less seriously hurt, said the bamb was found on the Agua Dulce bridge. He said Police Chief Franco had ordered it taken to Camp Columbia but it exploded while being placed in an automo bile. Another stir was caused at po lice headquarters with the an nouncement from the presidential palace that Chief Franco had been granted an Indefinite leave of ab sence because of "ill health." There was some speculation that Franco's friendship with Colonel Fulgencio Batista, head of the army, had been broken. Meantime, leaders of almost all factions continued to urge .Colonel Carlos Mendieta to assume the of fice of president, and Cuba's po (Turn to Page 2, CoL S) E EDGEWATER, N. J., Nov. 1 (JP) Recognizing their right to bargain collectively through re presentatives of their own choos ing, but declining to commit It self definitely to establishment of minimum wage scales, the Ford Motor company today re plied to the demands of 1500 strikers at the Edgewater assem bly plant. The reply was received by Neil 9. Brown; plant superintendent, who had forwarded the demands to the company's headquarters at Detroit after a conference with strikers and NRA officials last week. The company states, that It hopes it will be able not only to meet the demand for a 25 mini mum daily wage "If conditions permit" but to restore the min imum of 1 7 which prevailed he fore 1132. The strikers' demand for a 35-hour week Is Implicitly de nied with "the company's state ment that "if the law prohibits men from working more than 35 hoars a week, wages for 15 hours will be paid. Wnen the law permits men to work 40 hours a week," the reply states, "wages for 40 hours will be paid and the company will maintain as far as business con ditions permit, his five-day week of eight hours day " NEW LEADFR CONFORMS TO ii H Mil IDEAL Cancels Compromise Plan For Contract Haulers in Fade of Mandamus Action ' By Allied Truckers Anderson Organization Will File Suit Soon to Force Collection of Overdue Fees, Common Carriers Charles M. Thomas, utility com missioner, under fire through a pending mandamus suit; Wednes day afternoon cancelled his pre viously announced "compromise agreement for contract truck haul ers" under which par-h )mni.r ... , authorized to pay a fee of 210 fer ov aays instead of 530 for six months. The agreement also waiT ed other provisions of the 1533 bus and truck lav. Thomas issued an atfltnmnnr ta explain his renestfns; on his pre vious position. H-? said Attorney General Van Wiakl would anwir at the mandamu3 proceeding oa Denau or the state but indicated the attorney general would not op pose the proceeding. The compromise order. In addi tion to making 1t OOSSibla fnr th- small truck operators to pay their lees in installments, waived tea good faith bond provided for con tract haulers. The mandamus com plaint alleged that the comprorai was a violation of law and discrim inated in favor of the contract carrier. The agreement was reached at a meeting of the Oregon Truck Owners and Farmers Protective association held in Salem two weeks ago. The small truck op erators announced at that time that they were willing to pay the fee provided the remittances wr scattered over a period of six months. Thomas said he was agreeable to such a proposal. The truck and bus law has been a debatable issue ever since it was enacted and has resulted in array ing the various classifications of operators against each other. The act placed control of common car riers, contract haulers, special car riers and anywhere-for-hire trucks under the jurisdiction of the util ity commission. Special Insurance requirements also are made in cumbent under the law. A. C. Anderson, president of the Oregon truck owners and farmers' protective association, announced yesterday that his organization would file a court action within the next few days to force the pay ment of overdue fees by the com mon carriers. The complaint to compel Thom as to enforce impartially all pro visions of the 1933 bus and truck law was signed by 35 of the larger truck operators. t Fourteen truck and bus organ izations announced Tuesdayin Portland that they would go be fore the special legislative session and demand repeal of the entire bus and truck law. World News at a Glance ... By the Associated Press Domestic WASHINGTON President Roosevelt holds statistics shew recovery plans forging ahead. UNIONTOWN, Pa. Leaders of striking miners group, reputedly 15,000 in number, decide to seek presidential audience before re suming work. WASHINGTON Gold up here and abroad; foreign purchases expected shortly. DES MOINES Reno says strike call stands unless Roose velt acts on governors' demands. WASHINGTON Gerard Swope advocates broad plan for bring ing all business anlhindustry lato a highly centralized organization for selfr - government through codes. " TIVERTON, R. I. Three known dead as oil tank collapses and fire develops, Foreign HAVANA-Seven seriously hurt in police station bombing. . WEIMAR, Germany Hitler, in speech, asks world "to leave ns in peace." - GENEVA Norman I Davis leaves for Washington to consult Roosevelt on arms. i MUNICH Panter, "British Journalist, to be freed from Jail and expelled from Germany. PARIS Lindberghs to fly to Azores; plan Riviera sojourn lar 7 ter. r V'..-, -