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The Weather forecast: Fair Sunday anil Monday with frost or freezing temperature at night. Highest yesterdsy , , , . , , , , M loiirn jesterday .... 41 M MAILT EBFORB RIBUNE AWARDED Pulitzer Prize FOE 1934 Thirtieth Year MEDFOKD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1935. No. 7. PRESIDENT OFF ON FISHING TRIP "3 Co-Ed Shoots Chinese RAIL RATE BOOST Behind TO BE A 'HIRER, LONGER OLE S OLD AGF jJSION; CABELL NAMED 10 STATE ROAD POST; SUCCEEDS SCOTT Retiring Chairman Lauded by Gov. Martin for Effic ient Public Service New Appointee War Time Aid Executive, and Portlander By PAI L MALI.ON I (Copyright, inns, by Paul Ma Hon I WASHINGTON, March 30. Secre tary Ickes got quite a shock when he aaw the press dispatches from Florida a few lays ago. Thee llspatches, writ ;en by newsmen accom p a nylng 'resident Boose Tel t. announced that Harry Hop kins was to be the Jumbo-colossus of the new relief program. Now. Mr. Ickes knew, which the average news reader may not. PALI. MALLON aewsmen do not that presidential make such thlnes up out of their head. Only two persons could have inspired that story, Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Hopkins. You can imagine how that made Mr. Ickes feel. Here he lias been the J umbo -colossus of the PWA. for many months, and has aspirations. To add insult to Injury, the dispatches men tioned that "perhaps, Mr. Ickes. am one others' would be permitted to help Mr. Hopkins. Mr. Ickes put on hi hat and coat, and went to the White House. . There, standing guard, during the president's absence, was Stephen Earlv. who Is a diplomat as well as a secretary. Mr. Early is supposed to have worked on Mr. Ickes' brow, un ruffling tt. At least Ye gave out an official announcement that Mr. Roosevelt himself would run the new relief program. There would be no Jumbo -colossus, This would have saved the inside situation. Mr. Ickes has one relief plan. Mr. Hopkins has an extremely different one. While Mr. Icke ha not been seen much around the White House lately. Mr. Hopkins wa significantly invited to accompany the president on the train a fat Jacksonville. That la the way it goes. The un certainty of business, if any, is in significant compared with uncertain ty among White House favorite. One day. you are sitting happily on the presidential knee. Next day, you may , be on the floor, wondering how you B got there. Consequently the Florida dis patches conveyed a hint that the Hopkins plan had the edge over the Ickes plan. Furthermore, certain congressmen started grumbling that if this plan was" all fixed they should find out what it was before they passed the relief bill authorizing Mr. Roosevelt to carry it out. The result was that a second pla cating announcement was made from the White House. It said no plan would be decidcdon until Mr. Roose velt returns. This may sound like a very mud dled situation, but it is not. The only part muddled was the Jackson ville end of the publicity. Someone did too much talking, too soon. Unless Mr. Ickes succeeds In forc ing a revision of the plan. It 1 a certainty that tt will work out some thing like this: Mr. Roosevelt will run it. Mr. Hopkins will have the biggest Job in it, the Job of creating immediate work relief. Admiral Peoples will run .hc federal building program. Prof. Tugwell will run the rural re habilitation end. This will leave Mr. Ickes the tall end, the remnants of the PWA (alums clearance and per tmps a few other odds and ends). This doe not Imply any lack of confidence in Mr. Ickes on the part of the White House or anyone else. It Is a simple truth that he has been handling more than any one man could. Furthermore, certain senators say they have received a promise from the White House that Mr. Ickes would not control the new set-up. Congress always gets it man. A confidential survey has been made of the relief rolls by the FERA crowd. It shows very simply what the problem Is. It answers the two big questions of where the relief rollers are and who they are. More than half of them are In 142 cities of the country: For Instance. California has 206,781 on relief, and 301.315 are in the five cities of Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacra mento. San Dleco and S8" Francisco. New York state has 472.780 on the rolls and 402.958 of them In the six cities of Albany. Buffalo. New York. Rochester, Syracuse. Utlca. Ohio has 270.987. and 219.152 In eight big cities. The major portion of the relief problem, therefore. Is tn the cities. The survey further shows that nearly one-half (exactly 44 per cent") are factory workers. They were for merly employed in the manufactur ing and mechanical industries. The next larcest group wa In domestic and personal service trades, then fol low the groups of transportation and (Continued on Hae Ten) m: cmp of iw PALEM. Ore. March 30. AP, The 1917 legislature win be a.ked to enact a number of new laws as tiic rult nf a ianfren,-r held recently tn San Franisc-o between nffklas of OTcson. Washinfton, Csllfora and Nevada. Charles H. Gram, commissioner of la bor, said today. BOSTON. Msp-h 3o rr Ar-;"::"!-". - W cttve the past ei. Priest Takes 'Pennies From Poor' Under 'Social Jus tice'1 Guise Huey Called 'Purveyor of Bunk' in Bitter Attack. CHICAGO. Mar. 80. (AP) Gen. Hugh Johnson, barbed -ton gued for mer chief of NBA, lashed out again tonight at Father Charles Coughlin and Senator Huey P. Long, accusing the Detroit priest of trying to be an American Hitler and ridiculing the senator from Louisiana as purveyor of "bunk." "You have not chosen the Swas tika." Johnson said of Father Cough lin in pursuing his Hitler compari son. "You have a more sacred de vice ... no swastikas for your Nazis but a cross." Of the two men he has dubbed "pied pipers." Johnson said he "pre ferred" Senator Long. The general implied that with to night's attack, launched over a nation-wide hookup, he was "through" with his end of the flaming three cornered controversy. Centering his fire on the priest. Johnson denounced his policies and ridiculed him personally. He indi cated he believed Senator Long had been taken care of in a previous speech. As If addressing Father Coughlin personally, Johnson said: "Are you a Jack-ln-the-pulplt who Jumps up one moment in the collar of Rome, ducks snd reappears the next moment in necktie?" Johnson Inquired after asserting: "Photogrp,jhed In the cassock of a Catholic priest, while you said it, and anounclng from the shrine of the Utile Flower that you were going s.ter me the Sunday before you did It you said over the radio 'I address you neither as the spokesman of the Catholic church nor as the represen tative of its Catholic following." "Someone sent me a parallel of what both you and Adolf (Hitler) have proposed and preached and they are as alike as peas In, a pod. As a foreign-bom you could not be a president but you could be a re lens- fuehrer Just as the Austrian Adolf became a dictator of Germany." From beginning to end he sought to pick to pieces the priest's union of social Justice "For this he takes. from the pennies of the poor, much money never accurately reported nor accounted for." He condemned the money system embodied In the Nye-Sweeney bill advocated by the priest. "If a nonsensical monstrosity ever flowed from the pen of man, this is It." Johnson said. "Tht plan for which Father Coughlin has been tak ing tens of the thousands of dollars from the poor Is no plan at all." Johnson warmly defended Bernard Baruch, financier and friend whom Father Coughlin has referred to as "Bernard Manasseh Baruch." He de nled the Bible contains any accourtt of "Manasseh sawing Isiah in two" as he said the priest retold the ac count. "There is an obscure apocryphal story to that effect." he said, "but consecrated priest do not preach rrom that apocryphal. In the second place there is no such person in America a Bernard Manasseh Bar uch and well Father Coughlin knows it." Then he added: 'Bernard Baruch Is not my Lord and Master. He Is my friend of nearly 20 years ... he has done more for humanity and for this country than a thousand demagogues." "Father Coughlin running back to Roosevelt ha left Long, who is attacking the president dally, out on a limb." said Johnson. "If no more ha been done than to pry those pied pipers apart, it Is enough. Branding the Catholic prlet as cowardly in his previous attacks, Johnson said: "This guileless follower of the een- tie Master says that hi confidants have heaped his desk with gossip about my private life but he disdains to use it. Of course by that remark alone, he did use it In the most cow ardly way he could have used it That was to be expected." ON FEAR OF CRASH PORTLAND, Ore.. Mar. 30. (API Fearing his outboard motor boat would be rammed by a passing freighter. Oscar J. Clossett, Portland insurance msn. leaped Into the Wll- jlamette river tonight and drowned. His companion. J. D. Annand, re- malned In the small boat and es t caped injury. Harbor patrolmen Jstarted drazeing the river for the body. Trie motor stalled and the small j craft waa almost in the path of the I freighter which gave several warning blaj before Clossett leaped. Seelt Mater Kljllt ! SALEM. Ore.. March 0 (APi Ap i pltration for 30 second feet of war j from tv)t ehr!. tributary of the 1 x fork of the Willamette river in I count v, wn rr.arle of the "r.;;i:er M he Maintain Jun Lumber company of Cuki. President Roosevelt conversing with hia secretary, Marvin H. Mclntyre, just before leaving for a vacation to the Caribbean where he will do soma deep aea fishing. (Associated Press Photo) E FOR VINSON PLAN OF B0NUSPA1G Legion Chiefs Believe Bill Has Best Chance for Sen ate and Presidential Ap provalSeek Early Action WASHINOTON, March 30. (AP) The national executive committee of the American Legion has been called to meet next Tuesday In Indianapolis, ostensibly to give a fresh push to the Vinson soldiers bonus bill pro viding for cash payment but leaving to the treasury how the money Is to be raised Beaten In the house, which ap proved the Pat man measure calling for payment In 92.200,000,000 of new currency, Legion officials said today they believed the Vinson plan had a better chance of senate approval. They also thought this bill would be more acceptable to the. White House. Senate leaders, however, continued to claim neither of these bills would be approved by the president and clung to their prediction a veto could be sustained in their branch. Whether or not the 1936 elections have any thing to do with it, they are hopeful a compromise might be worked out to avoid a veto. Negotiations to this end this far have failed to make much headway. No plans have been made for con sideration of the house bill by the senate finance committee, the ques tion having been delayed until Presi dent Roosevelt returns from his southern cruise. There Is a possibility that the NRA extension bill, if It requires much more of the committee's time, might be sidetracked temporarily until dis posal of the bonus. Chairman Har rison has announced only brief bonus hearings would be held on the latter. L NATIONAL DRIVE TO AID CHILDREN PHOENIX. Aril?.. Mar. 30. (AP) The American Legion and affiliated orgRnlratlon launched a nation wide program of unified effort In be half of children as It brought it area child welfare conference to a close here today. National officials of tha Legion gathered with delegate from 11 western states. Hawaii and Alaska to outline the program for carrying Ms child welfare proeram Into every sec tion of the nation. rce were lnstrurted to begin oreanlatlon of schools In all parrs of their territories to train members of the affiliated uor.es in child wel fare work. Offlciala pointed out that in this manner the Legion would weld Its child welfare division lino a nation-wide organization of un limited power. Judee Wilbur Alter, of Denver, said, "t will help children into a state of mholesome. self-maintaining adulthood, assure them security snd enable them to aume their rittVit ful responsibilities of cltlfnuhlp." I Storm Lahe Adriatic, ANCONA. Italy, Marh 30 fAPl , At lenjt 15 men ere drowned and 1 a n--.mber nf nth- Injured In t-rm hi"i. lA.-r.eri this sed ition of ti4 Adriatic aea tods. QUICK TRIAL OF N.R.A. TEST CASES Action Sought Guidance of Congress in Continuing Recovery Act Lumberj Code Validity at Issue WA iHINGTON, March 30. (AP) A bi-partisan move began in the sen ate today to persuade the Justice department to reverse its stand and obtain a quick test of NRA's consti tutionality for the guidance of con gress In continuing the rocovcry act. The department recently announced It would dismiss the Belcher case. In volving the validity of the lumber code and NRA, Itself, even though the supreme court probably would have decided the issue within the next few weeks. The thunder that recently ha sur rounded the NRA today reverberated outside congress also, and two federal Judges added to the recovery agency's legal troubles by ruling portions of the recovery act Invalid or Inopera tive. The two senators who announced they would Introduce on Monday a resolution calling on the Justice de partment to prosecute the Belcher case appeal were Hastings (R., Del.) and Clark (D.. Mo.) NRA Insisted that despite the de cision to dismiss the Belrhnr case the lumber code waa still In force. An aroused industry took the position, however, that It had. In effect, been suspended by the refusal to have the supreme court pass on the ruling In Alabama that the code was unconsti tutional. Col. W. R. Orceley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's association, the district code author ity for the Industry, said today in Seattle that Its board of trustees ad vocated suspension of the agreement "until It can be made legally en forceable." The authority already hns discharged most of Its employes, ef fective April ia. TACOMA. March 30. (AP) At tacks on the NRA lumber code by employes of mills whose operations have been reatrlcted. again figured In the federal court here today when Judge Edward E. Cushman set April 8, aa the date to determine Jurisdic tion In a case now pending. The request for an interlocutory Injunction against the West Coast Lumbermen's association, code ad ministrator for this district, was filed November 7 by employes of the Stlm son mill of Seattle, who claim that their constitutional rights to earn a living are denied by arbitrarily re stricting the number of hours a mill can operate during a given period. In assigning the date for a hearing to determine Jurisdiction. Judge Cushman Indicated that this partic ular petition would be denied because the most money an individual Is be Injr deprived of la not In excess of j $700. Under federal laws no civil suit I can be brought in a federal court which involves less than $1,000. It Is also likely that the Mnrs in the action will be eliminated by the ; time the hearing Is held as the na- tlonal lumber code authority Is ex- pected to apply to the nra this week j for authority to suspend It entire code. Name (,raln .Sii iert Wir. SALT LAKE CITY. March 30 fAP) Harry Ott, sn rnuineer for the sta. relief administration, to day was appointed field supervisor of emergency convrva'.ton work uiider the Tavior grazing art in t'tah. Vi'r.o. Colorado Nevada and o-re n he waa advjwd f 'm Wah lng lop SALEM, March 30. (AP) Gover nor Charles H. Martin late today an nounced the appointment of Henry Falling Cabell of Portland as mem ber of the state highway commission to succeed Leslie M. Scott, chairman, whose term will expire tomorrow. At the same time Hie governor wrote a letter to Scott lauding the work of the commission chairman during the past three years, declar ing "your record abundantly demon stratoa the highest order of efficient, unselfish, high minded public serv ice." Scott was named chairman of the commission In Febniary, 1932 by Governor Meter. Martin's announcement stated Ca bell Is the son of Colonel Henry C. Cabell, a distinguished soldier, and a grandson of Oregon's noted pioneer, Henry Failing. Cabell la 40 years of age. born In Portland November 28, 1895. He re ceived his education In the Portland j public schools, the University of Vir ginia and at Harvard law school. During the latter part of the World I war Cabell was an aide-de-camp to Major General Martin. Cabell la a republican. The governor's letter to Scott was as follows: "On the expiration of your term on the state highway commission. I feci it la due you that the governor should formally make of record an acknowledgement of your conspicu ous and distinguished service to the state. "As chairman of the commission during the past three years to you Is due the principal credit for our far flung and magnificent highway sys tem. You have been responsible for the expenditure of millions of dol lars without a breath of scandal. In the execution of your office you have brought a high order of intelligence, meticulous care and tireless energy. Your record abundantly demonstrates the highest order bf efficient, un selfish, hlghmlndcd public service." CONFESSOR SAYS ST. PAUL, Minn., March 30. (AP) Three murders were pinned on the Barker-Karpia gang and a life termer In Stillwater prison exonerated of the crimes In a confession by one of the gang held for the $200,000 kidnaping of Edward Bremer, It became known today. On unimpeachalijn authority It was learned that Leonard Hanklns. serv- ilng a life term for the murder of two policemen and a St. Paul motor 1st In the robbery of the Minneapo lis Third Northwestern National bank, had been absolved of guilt. Jess Doyle, Indicted as the money changer In the Bremer abduction. Is said to have admitted he drove the bandit car and Imputed to the no torloua Barker-Karpls band the spec tacular holdup of the First National bank at Falrbury, Neb., two years ago In which seven persons were wounded The asserted confession clears up the slay tugs of Patrolmen Leo Gorskl and Ira Evans of Minneapolis, mowed down by machine gun bullets In front of the bank on December 16, 1032, and the killing of Oscar Erlck&on, 29-year-old St. Paul resident, who un wittingly stared at the bandits as they changed escape cars in Como Park, St. Paul. Doyle, who said he wa dressed In a chauffeur uniform during the raid, named In his reported confession as his accomplices in the $112,000 Mln nea polls holdup: Alvin Karpls. public enemy. No. 1, still at Urge and Indicted aa a kid naper of the St, Paul banker. Arthur (Dog) Barker, held In the county Jail here, awaiting trial In the Bremer case. WEATHER OUTLOOK Oregon: Fair Sunday and Monday: frost or freezing temperature at night In the Interior; moderate north and northwrat wind off the coast. SAN FRANC IHCO, March 30. ( AP) -Outlook for the period April 1 to 6 Inclusive: Clenerally fair with normal tem perature, but unsettled In noTth Pa cific states and northern Idaho latter part of week. Siiiic hpeetlrr UneiJ. PORnaAND. March 30. f AP) Don Cole waa fined $5 hy Municipal Juries Ing today for speeding with his truck. "1 think the fine ts too mu'-n." he arnned. '"Die jiidicment will le v-t snide and the fine will he t7 " .t-ii-'pe lyng answered. Ann that as that. Revised Townsend Bill EliminatesThem, Also1 Broadens Tax Base No Age or Compulsory Spend ing Change. WASHINGTON. Mar. 30. (AP) The Townsend old age pension plan was revised today by tt principal congressional supporter, Representa tive McOroarty (Dcm., Calif.) to eliminate the millionaires from its benefit. On Mondsy, one of his associates announced, he will Introduce a "new bill embodying all the old and some new features." Originally, the Townsend plan stipulated that everyone sixty yeara or more of age should receive $200 a month from the government, agree ing to spend it all within the month. The cost of the scheme, estimated at $24,000,000,000 annually, would be borne by a two per cent tax on every transaction involving an exchange of .loney. "The taxing base ha been broad ened," the announcement said, "in cluding now not only the transac tions tax of two per cent provided In the original bill but also a two per cent tax on Inheritances and gifts and a one-tenth raise In alt present Income tax rate. , "Other fen t urea are that million aire are no longer eligible, only those who have net Income of less than $3,400 being eligible: the reve nue will be paid out pro rata but not to exceed $200 a month per person; age limit remains at 60 years; com pulsory spending the same; to be ad ministered by veteran bureau and revenue only to be used for pensions and administration." T 1 1 w in ij T IN PLAINS STATES Another Black -Blizzard Comes to Stricken Areas Giant Furrowing Pro gram for Kansas Planned Wheat Crop Lowe. . KANSAS CITY. Mar. 30. (API As mid western farmers and government agencies laid heroic plans today to combat tha menace of dust, the weather changed Its tactics and also dished up snow, rain and freezing temperatures to a wide area. Four states were hit by the renew ed dust storms. In Kansas, where the atste and government plan to begin Jointly a giant furrowing scheme to control drifting soil, there was snow, fore cast of rain and frost and dust. Snow fell over the northwest plains states and rain fell to the south of Kansas City, but Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico and Texas suffered again today under the lash of an other dust storm as plans went for ward for the vast dust control pro gram. In St. Louis, State Meteorologist Roscoe Munn announced that spring had come to Missouri three weeks earlier than usual and that fruit and wheat had advanced to the mld-Aprll stage, in Kansas City Federal Meteor ologist Hamrlck predicted rain, snow and a killing frost for tonight. Western Kansas received some snow mingled with dust stirred up by what waa described aa another "worst storm of the season." The northern Texas panhandle was under a dust pall which so discouraged grain men that they reduced their estimate of the panhandle wheat crop to less than 13.000,000 bushels. Normal pro duction for the area Is about 30.000, 000 bushels. SUED FOR ERROR TACOMA. Mar. 30. (AP) Claim ing that $4,100.00 In fraud penalties were illegally assessed on Its income for 1027 and 1028, the Psnkratz Lum ber company of Seattle filed an lo tion against Burns Poe, former col lector of Internal revenue, In the fed eral district court here today. The firm alleges that It paid the fraud penalties to release Its bank accounts and that an appeal was tak en to the board of tax appeals which ruled unfavorably for the govern ment on the penalties. 4- Mill Workers .Near Strike. SEATTLE, March 30. (AP) Possi bility of a strike by the recently organized lumber and sawmill work er of the Pariflfl Northwest was ' en todav aa a result of a conven tion held at Aberdeen last week-end I by the lousei. INCOME COLLECTOR WASHINGTON SOW m George Hlng Slew (lower). Chin ese student, was In a critical condi tion from bullet wounds allegedly Inflicted by Lois Thompson, 18 (top), sophomore at Tahleouah, TAHLEQUAH. Okla., March 30. (AP, Lola Thompson, 10-year-old Northeastern State Teachers' college co-ed, wa freed under $3500 bond yesterday after she pleaded not guilty wheu arraigned on a charge of as sault with Intent to kill Daniel Shaw, Chinese student at the college. The girl was arraigned shortly after the charges were filed by County Attorney Sanford Martin. She displayed no emotion as she answered "not gulltv" to the charge, filed before Justice of the Peace J. M. Rnllng. The bond was, aigned by four prominent Tahlequah cltlrena. AS DRUNK AFTER PISTOLjPISODE Lee Tracy Fires Bullets Into Apartment Below and Couple Protest to Police Actor Explains. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March SO. (AP) Lee Tracy, the fUm star, to night gavo answei to the question all Hollywood wa asking, "what was all the shoot In' for?" Although the actor's tongue rattle like a riveting machine in his screen roles, it waa a little too slow to save him from a $100 fine, assessed for drunkenness, In the sunrise court today. Tracy did not deny the Inebria tion. But he aald he had a good and sufficient reason- for firing five bul lets from a heavy service revolver through the floor of his apartment In Beverly Hills. "Someone waa trying to break In the hack door," he explained. Toward dawn today Tracy was help ed out of a taxi by the driver. "I was at a night club." the actor de clared. "I had had a few drinks. So what?" Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Lsldlaw. who occupy the first floor apartment beneath Tracy's, told police officers they helped the actor upstairs to his room. Tracy denied this. "They did not help me upstairs." he said. "They merely accompanied me." A few moment later, the Lsidlaws said , when they ca 1 led pol loe. five bullets. In rapid succession, roared through the floor of Tracy'a apart ment, and were still going when they penetrated the celling of their kitchen. That's when they called police. SETS BIRTH MARK TACOMA. March 30. (API C. B. Blessing of Buckley, near here, has sn old white sow which Is dotng her bit to disrupt the new deal's agri cultural program. On January 3 the sow gave birth to 31 pigs. Blessing reported today that 20 of them are not only still alive but thriving mightily. No. 31, died 12 hours sfter birth. Trugedy nn Farm ALBANY, Ore.. March 80. (AP) Milton Aubrey, 38, Tangent farmer. died In a hospital here today with a bullet in hla head. His wife said he had gone out to do the morning chore and when he failed to return she Investigated and found him with a bullet wound In the head. Coro' ner Fisher said the wound obviously was aclf-lnfilrtrd and that there Lfould be no uiueat, Restoration of Railroad Pay to 1929 Level Due Mon day I. C. C. Grants Right of Emergency Charges to Meet Increase CHICAGO, March SO , (AP) Tha railroads will serve node soon after May 1 that they will seek a reduction Irom the 19ao waue levels which be come effective aum next Monday. Under the agreement negotiated a year ago In Washington by which the rail employes of the country will receive an Increase In pay estimated at from $80,000,000 to $130,000,000 annually, no notice can be given by either side of any Intended change before May 1. But railroad executives here Indi cated that current traffle and earn ings trends would not permit them to wait much longer than the 30-day limitation period before asking modi fication of the restored pay aralea which will augment all rait workers' checks starting April 1. "The restoration of the baalc rates of pay to the levels of the high wage period of 1920 will Increase the oper ating expenses of the roads so that either higher rates or greatly aug mented volume will be needed to en able them to meet the added charges ssld W. P. Thlehoff, gonerai manager of the Burlington road and chairman of the conference committee of rail managers, which conducted the last negotiations with the rati labor rep resentatives. "The prospects for an Increase In business are not bright, particularly for the western roads. In whose ter ritory the unprecedented drought of last year haa been followed by ad verso conditions In wide arena again this aeason. The poor agricultural outlook will, unciouotediy, result la material reductions of business. The roads must Invariably serve notice, after the month limitation expiree, of intention to seek a modification of the then effective wage rates." Thlehoff estimated that on the basis of the average payrolla for 1833- 1034 the Increased pay would cost the roads of the country $130,000,000 a year. Other entlmatea have ranged down to $60,000,000. WASHINGTON, March 80. (AP) Terming general freight rate advance an Inadequate and dangerous meth od" of meeting modern railroad prob lems, the interstate commerce com mission today turned again to the makeshift method of emergency charges to help tide American rail carriers over the next IS months. It flatly denied permission to make permanent general Increases designed to raise $170,000,000 a year of needed revenue. What tt did authorize was a resumption of the emergency charge method of rate Increases In effect from January 4, 1932, until September 30, 1033. Some variations were made In the new charges a compared with the earlier list. They will be In effect until June SO, 1036. Major farm pro duct were exempted from any In creases. The rejection of the urgent plea of the carriers comes on the eve of a A per cent Increase In railroad wages effective Monday. This wage increase Is estimated to affect about 9A0.00O workers and to amount to $80,000,000 a year. Against this the emergency chsrges were estimated by Commis sioner Milter of the Interstate com merce commission as liable to yield about $85,000,000 a year. Sliver A chances NEW YORK. March 30. (AP) Tht price of foreign bar silver for domes tic Industrial use was advanced H cent today to 64' cents an ounce. PORTLAND, Ore!, March" 30. (AP) Successful unloading of 70.000 bar rel of gasoline from the Standard Oil tanker. District of Columbia, has extended Portland's gasoline supply pool by four or five days. A strike or the seamen's union has blocked tanker channels. WILL - ROGERS XEW YORK, March 29. Flew thru these dust utortna lnt nifiht with the pilot flying entirely by instruments. Where in the world i it going to? It'i a terrible thing and it's going to bring up some queer cases in law. If Colorado blows over and lit!htg on top of Kansa-i, it looks like KansBH oncht to pay for the extra top soil, but Kan sas can sue 'em for covering up their crops. Now this week's wind lias picked up Colorado, which was in Kansas, taking Kansas with it and that's what's in the air looking for a place to light. In the Middle "West now you got to put a brand on your soil. Then in the spring go on a roundup looking for i
