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LZ\TToJl7'Z^l     WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1934
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Xotcred  tt   Wllkes-Barre,  Ps., As  Second   Clsss  Msll   Matter
PRICE TEN CENTS
DEFENSE TO SAVE BOB EDWARDS
STUDIED BY HIS ATTORNEYS
Two Principal Demands By Workers Are Conceded On Wages And On Hours
BEEF WILL MOVE
Arbitration Will Control Dispute On Nine Points When Jobs Are Resumed
Idle Clergyman Posed As Cupid
Hagrerstown, Md„ Auer. 4,—UP —Rev. Peter Hoffman -was arrested here today on a warrant charging him with offering com¬ missions to taxlcab drivers who brought him couples to be mar¬ ried. Police said HoITman has officiated at 110 marriages since June 1. Hoffman pleaded not guilty to the charge and was held under $300 bond for a hear¬ ing Tuesday. The clergyman came here two months ago from Harrlsburg, Pa, He said he was a minister of the United Breth¬ ren faith, but at present was not assigned to a pastorate.
BOTH SIDES WIN
Chicago, Aug, 4.—UP—A strike of livestock handlers that paralyzed Great Union Stockyards here tor nearly two weeks was ended today through the bold efforts of Gen, Hugh S, Johnson.
Johnson brought together tho itrikers, the employers and medi¬ ators who had been working on the dispute and elficted a settlement that was regarded as meeting most ot the demands ot Labor.
The settlement means that llve- ¦tock will flow uninterrupted through the maze of pens, Monday, for the flrat time In two weeks.
The strikers had presented their employers with eleven demands. Two ot these were settled today, providing a minimum wage tor extra help and setting a 48-hour week for regular employes. The other nine demands remain to be settled by arbitration after the strikers go  back   to   work.
"Both sides win," said Johnson as he completed the long negotiations that  finally  brought settlement.
"I never would have got into the dispute, except for the fact that a few men affected by the strike were interfering with the movement of livestock from the drought areas,
"It you had Just come trom thc West, as I have, you would realize how serious this drought situation is,"
Johnson's coup today was typlcU of the dynamic personality that has made his name a by-word through¬ out the land.
Johnson came to Chicago sched¬ uled to make two speeches and leave. He planned to keep his fing¬ ers out of the stubborn controversy at the stockyards.
But, he had been in town only a lew hours when announcement was made that commission houses were going to re-open lbe yards to trad¬ ing In deflance ot the strikers, TJie situation was fraught with dan¬ gerous potenllalltlcs, A new ap¬ peal was made to Johnson and he listened.
PRESIDENT TO SPEAK TO PEOPLE TONIGHT
DESPITE OFFERS
Federal Mediators Fail To Get Drivers And Owners On Path Toward  Peace
One Quadruplet Passes In Death
Sac City, la,, Aug. 4.—UP— Lorraine DeLaine, smallest of the famed Wycott quadruplets, died earl.v today in her sleep.
She was born June 9, with two sisters and brother, shortly after the Dlonne quintuplets made their appearance at North Bay, Ont.
Physicians, who had consider¬ ed the children in good health, did not announce immediately the cause ot the death.
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Hitler Goes Into Seclusion To Prepare Addresses To The German  People
MAY STATE POLICY
TRY AGAIN TODAY
President Roosevelt was hopeful last night that he would be able to make a nation-wide broadcast at nlne-lhlrty o'clock tonight. It was reported that two of the principal radio chains were reserving time to permit Mr, Roosevelt to speak to the people for a period of at least fit- teen minutes, or longer it he desires.
M I n n e a p o I 1 a. .\ugust 4.—UP —Efforts of Federal mediators to end the 19-day-old riotous strike of truck drivers bogged down to¬ night when the drivers' union flat¬ ly refused a peace plan advanced by  employers.
Tho mediators, however, still hoped to effect a settlement before midnight tomorrow, when Governor Kloyd B. Olson has threatened drastic action it an agreement has not   been  reached.
Father Francis J. Haas and E. H. Dunnlgan, Federal concillutors, aald tonight after a conference wlih the advlaory committee of the strikers that an impasse had been reached In negotiations. It was an¬ nounced aa the conference broke up that the union committee might aak the mediators tor another meeting tomorrow.
The strikers said they would ac¬ cept no proposal departing trom the Haas-Dunnlgan plan, it was the rejection ot this plan by the em¬ ployers that resulted in tbe declar¬ ation ot martial law and the estab-^ llahment ot a military "dictator¬ ship" over the 516,000 residents of Minneapolis by Gov. Floyd 6. Olson,
The employes accepted the Haas- Dunnlgan plan, but the employers countered with one ot their own. i^'oderal mediators .lave sought to use the latter as the basis of a settlement.
Rain and the funeral of John Belor. atrike picket fatally wounded by police In quelling a market place riot two weeks ago, seemed to have dampened the ardor of marauding bands of pickets. No clashes were reported.
l.rf'O Holscher, strike - breaking truck driver, who shot two pickets In a sharp street dash with a band which attacked bis truck, was held in Jail for action by military author¬ ities. AdJ,-Gen, Walah, troop com¬ mander, warned that the carrying of fire-arms hy citizens would not be tolerated.
Earl Collins and George Scbirts, pickets, wounded by Holscher, probably will be arrested, military authorities said. Scbirts was re¬ leased from a hospital after treat¬ ment of a gunshot wound in the head.
Colllna was wounded In thc leg.
Public To For
Attention Diverted Great Testimonial A  Departed  Leader
AUSTRIA TROUBLED
Ztagreb, Jugoslavia, Aug, 4.—UP —The Palace ot Justice was dam¬ aged heavily today by two bombs. The outrage was attributed to Cro¬ atian Nationalists who have been agitating for years for an Indepen¬ dent Croatia. They have been re¬ sentful of the current Congress hero of the Pan-Serbian Sokol organiza¬ tion  ot  young  athletes.
SAYSJOSEVELT
Foresees Vast New Outlet For Millions In Search Of   A   New   Opportunity
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Roomer Amuck Shoots Woman
West Side Family Also Is Given Attorney Aid To Seek   Government   Fund
Philadelphia, Aug. 4 —UP — Running amuck In a rooming house, Oeorge H. Smith, 56, ot Metuchen, N, J,, shot and wound¬ ed Adeie Klinger. 39, and then beat three men who came to her rescue and overpowered him. Smith shot the woman flve times and was standing over her with a revolver when rescuers enter¬ ed the rooming house. He se¬ verely beat three men as they struggled for possession ot the gun, then tell with a bullet tn his thigh when the weapon ex¬ ploded. Physicians at Hahne¬ mann hospital said Mra. Klinger was probably fatally wounded.
TWO VETERANS
EAST GOES WEST
Vienna, Aug, 4,—UP—I'redictions that Austria within one or two weeka will appeal to the League of Nations to settle the Aiistro-Ger- man situation waa voiced by some Informed  persons   today.
Others, however, said Austria does not wish to take such action because Germanism revolts against the idea of washing German family linen in public and also because such action would postpone instead ot hastening the day of Austru- Gernian  rapproacliment.
It Is the opinion of the latter group that those countries professing friendship toward Austria Increased export markets, thus killing radical¬ ism with prosperity.
WEEDERS OF ONIONS FORCED FROM HOMES
McQuttey, O., Aug, 4—UP—Strik¬ ing onion vveeders were evicted from their homes today as landown- erse of the Scioto marshlands sought to "break the baik" ot the ¦Farm Labor Union walkout wlilch has threatened destruction to a mil¬ lion-dollar crop.
Armed guards were posted around homes of officials ot Scioto Land Co., storm center of the strike while county officers began evic¬ tions.
Three men armed wllh shotguns patrolled the grounds surioimding 'he home of Allen Edwards, Scioto offli-lal, whose home leiently was partially wrecked  by a  bomb.
Eviction notices were served on 22 families who had been living in quarters provided by the growers, although they had refused to work the flelds until wages were in¬ creased. The strike, approaching two months in duration, was called with a demand for wages of 36 cents an hour for a 10-hour day.
Previously, weeders had received an average of about nine cents an hour for their back-breaking toll, and had worked from 12 to 13 hours a day under the broiling sun, many of them crawling along thc rows of onions on their hands and knees, pulling out the weeds missed by thc machine cultivators.
Hitler. In  Seclusion
Berlin, Aug, 4—UP—Adolf Hitler, sole Dictator of Germany and ar¬ biter of Its destiny, worked In seclu¬ sion today on plans to pull the na¬ tion  out  of economic  chaos,
AVhllo the whole world paid tribute to President Paul von Hin¬ denburg and preparations were made for his funeral. Hitler labored alone In his office at the Chancellery mapping future plans and drafting the funeral orations which he will deliver Monday and  Tuesda.v,
Content to let the old field mar- shall, who made Hitlers future liy calling him to head the government, have the full share of honor and reverence due lihu. Hitler kept strictly to himself and out of the limelight. He gave no inkling of his future policies nnd no indication ot whether he would continue to re¬ side at the Chancellery or move in¬ to the  presidential palace.
Members ot the Reichstag, the diplomatic corps. State government representatives, officials of the Army and civil administrations and Labor groups will attend the great Hindenburg memorial festival. De¬ spite tho strict secrecy regarding the tenor ot Hitler's speech, it was assumed In many quarters that poli¬ tical declarations would be Included. All Talk Passes Hitler
The newspapers concentrated on the funeral plans and people in the streets talked of little else. For the first time in months. Hitler -tt'aa relegated to comparative obscurity —apparently secure in the know¬ ledge that with the,^ lowering of Hindenburg into his grave at Tan- neberg on Tuesday, his position will be confirmed as tbe unchallenged leader, with no other personality to distract attention.
Although his future plans have not been revealed, it was consider¬ ed certain that Hitler would work with Dr, HJalmar Schacbt—head of the Relcbsbank and newly-a|ipolnt- cd to tbe cabinet as ilinlstcr ot Economics—to battle the currency, import and raw material problems which have been threatening the country with a disastrous Winter,
Also,* he probably will puah his federal reform project, one of his cherished ideas, wlilch until now had been blocked by objections from von HIndenberg. The project would destroy the federal system intro¬ duced by Bismarck, wipe out  State
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Grand Coulee Dam, Wash., Aug, 4. — UP — President Franklin D, Roosevelt stood on the high bluffs overlooking the Columbia river basin today and told 30,000 persons his vision of the day when that great b.asln will be lush and green and become the homes of numbers of families from the ongeated East. He virtually com.-nitted himself to completion of Grand Coulee Dam to a height ot 342 feet, with power houses generating 2,000,000 horse¬ power and water sufflcient to trans¬ form the millions ot dry acres be¬ low It into irrigated farms and villages for 1,250,000  persons.
His shirt-sleeved audience sat In the boiling sun and cheered lustily throughout the informal speech In which the President revealed that the present Grand Coulee Dam pro¬ ject, a 176 foot dam, and the tlrst unit ot the power generators, is the culmination ot a dream he had in 1920 when he tlrst saw the great, broad, almost unpeopled areas which lay between Rocky .Mountains and the (Cascades,
"We have made the beginning and I like to think that In dur llte-tlme we are going to see," the President said, "this project taken up on a vastly greater scale," Concluding, he said: "There is a great opportunity tor people in the East, in the South aud In some parts ot the Middle West— from submarginal lands—who have proved pretty conclusively that it is a mighty difficult thing for them to earn an adequate living on those lands, who will come here and be making an honest livelihood and do¬ ing their best to live up to the American standards of living and tbe American standards ot citlzei^ ship,"
Explains Allocations He   explained   that   PWA   alloca¬ tions  for  the  three   western  States had   been   far   greater   than   their popui.ition  quotas deserved.
"Why did w-e do it'.'" he asked. "We did it, in my Judgment, with perfect propriety and with the knowledge that those States that would not get quite as much as the Coast got would understand and approve it. We did it because out here in the Mountain and Coast States you have unlimited natural resources and vast acreage capable of supporting auch larger popula¬ tion than you have and we believe that by preserving with this great project It will not only develop the well-being of tlie Far West but also give an opiiortunlty to many Indi¬ viduals and many families back In the old und settled parts' ot the na¬ tion to come out here and distrib¬ ute .some ot the burdens which fall on them more heavily that they fall on the West.
"I um going to try to come back here when the dam Is finished and I know that this country that looks pretty barren today is going to be filled with not only a great many people from this State but with a great many families from other States of the Cniiin -men, women and chlldl en who wlli be making an honest livelihood and doing their best to live up to the American standards of Jiving and the Amer¬ ican   standards of cillzenahlp,"
Container Of Drug Tablets Handed Over To Police From   One   Of   Victims
CHILDREN IN NEED
FINDS CASE OF CLOTHES
Dr. J. J. Coyne of 223 Fox Hill Place, E.'.eter, reported to State Police yesterday tliat he found a black suitcase containing new men's clothes, yesterday while driving through Belfast, Pa. State Police broadcast description ot the bajj and  its contents.
When death strikes twice in one family In a^ short space of time there is unusual sorrow expressed by friends and nclgbbora, but from the Benosky family, reaidents of 208 Hillside avenue, Edwardsvlile, four funerals took place in the month ot July.
Laat night, Chlet of Police Robert Davla and Assistant Chief ot I'oliee Michael Krltvltskl refused to con¬ firm or deny there was any un¬ usual circumstance in connection with the four deaths In such a short interval.
Tlie first death waS that of Frank Gnat, 29 years old. The second dath was that of Benny Benosky, 39 years, a brother-in-law of Frank Gn.it, The tirst death came on July «, the aecond death, July IS, On July 26, eight days later, came the death ot Josepli Gnat, father of Mrs, Benjamin Bcnoski and Frank Gnat, Alone in the house while the funeral of Joseph Gnat made its way down the steep grade of Hill¬ side avenue was John Trump, He stood at the window and watched the funeral procession and when the mourners returned thoy found he too had passed on to the Great Beyond. Four days later his burial took place.
Find   Drug Executors  ot  the  Ikuoskl  estate, in    checking    his    belongings >• for documents   pertaining   to   his   war record,    came    uiion    an    ordinary- looking fountain pen.    The pen was passed on to Chief ot Police Robert Davis.    On    opening   it,    the   chict discovered   it  had  throe  neat  com¬ partments,  extending  from  the  top to   the   bottom,   containing   a   drug, heroin. The pen was sliiltiiily made and    would    pass    as    a    standard article.
The chief in his investigation learned from conhdeiitlal sources that, two months previous to the death ot Trump, a physician was required to give him a treatment for tho effects nf a narcotic,
Benny Bcnoski had been In gov¬ ernment hospitals time and time again, taking treatment for his ears and stomach, claiming injuries were received in France. For the past year he had been residing with his wife  and  seven  children.
Chief Davis «dniltted he had clues that drugs were being peddled In some of the West Side towns, to addii'ta.
An IndepVndent reporter called at the home ot Mrs. Benoakl laat night In company with Assistant Chief of Police Michael Krivitskl.
Woman Discusasi Deaths Mra. Benoski, surrounded by her aeven children, talked freely of the four deaths. She aald her brother's death was due to a mental derange¬ ment. In speaking of her husband she stated that he suffered greatly from nervousness, attributing it to his service in France.
When asked by the reporter whether he took anything to soothe his nerves she replied: "Only veronal tablets and medicine that he got from government hospitals." .She then hoped the governuieiit would allow her a pension, as she needed it for her children.
In regard to the death of her father and John Trump she assign¬ ed only natural causes, which were apparent.
Trump also was a soldier and spent time in China und other Asi¬ atic  points.
Attorneys  Interested  in   the   Ben- oski  widow  and  children, so far as getting government compensation Is (Continued  on  Page  «,  >Scc.  1)
FUND FOR BATTLE IN COUNTY COURT REPORTED RAISED
EdwardsvUle Youth Is Told To Put Reliance On Friends Who Prepare To Back His Efforts To Prove State Is Basing Mc¬ Kechnie Killing On Only His Testimony
DISCLAIM BLOW AS FATAL
ON CITY HIGHWAY
Harrowing Experience For Mine Worker In A Dash To   Hospital   Treatment
OTHER MISHAPS
A Glcn Alden ambulance, convey¬ ing an injured mine worker to a hospital, upset here late yesterday afternoon atter the vehicle figured in a double collision. Additional in¬ juries were escaped by the mine worker in the auto crash, although be did sutler irom the effects ot shock.
The ambulance was traveling north on South River street. Al the Intersection ot that highway with South street the driver pass¬ ed a red light nnd in doing so col¬ lided with tlie machine ot Herbert Felter, 333 Wyoming avenue, Weat Pittston, The ambulance, a mo¬ ment after bounding from the Felt¬ er car, crashed Into the auto of Walter Neeld, 244 Gilligan street, which was tiivvcling south on Soutli River street. The veliicle holding the Injured man upset after the  second   crash.
The city police patrol was rush¬ ed to tbe scene and the injured man, Edward Peilfer, 63, of Nes¬ bitt lane, Plymouth, was removed to General hospital. He had suf¬ fered a compound fracture of ihe right leg in an accident at Lance colliery ot Glen Aldon I'oul I.gm- pany. Two other men on the am¬ bulance were not Injured when It careened,
A Plymouth man, George Krlsii- levicz, 25 years old, ot 48 Vine street, died yesterday morning at 6 oclock in Mercy hospital from in¬ juries suffered Friday night in Lance No. 11 mine. Glen Alden Coal Company. He was caught under a fall ot rock. The victim leaves his mother nnd these brothera and slaters: Alphonao and Mra Peter feutsavage, of Lynwood; Al¬ dona, Julius, Joseph and Mary, at home. The funeral will be held Wednesday at 8:30. A mass of requiem will be celebrated at nine oclock In St. Casimlr's church, I'lymouth. Burial will be in the church cemetery at Muhlenburg.
Alice Schoonover, 40, ot Dallas, received a fracture ot the right log at 8 oclock last night when hurled from the back ot a pony which be¬ came frightened. Thc injured wo¬ man was admitted to Nesbitt Me- mortal hospital
The following were injured yea¬ terday morning lit Harvey's Lake when the maililne they occupied upset after a tire blew out:
George Konnlck, 23, of II Auburn atreet, fractured ribs and Internal Injuries.
Michael Bala, 18, of 32 O'Nell street, lacerations over the right eye and  possible skull  fracture.
Edward Scdor, 23, of 447 Madison street, compound fracture of a leg and lacerations over the right eye. John Budnack, 18, ot 474 M.1II- aon street, auffcred a cut lip, lbe Injured young men were treated at Oeneral hoapital, Buback was later sent to his home,
A tall of rock In Loomls mine brought chest injuries to Walter Pardc-, 50, of 239 East River street, Plymouth, He is in Nanticoke lios¬ pital.
Bitten   By   Dog
Bitten  in   the  abdomen   by  a  dog
while    walking    on    Abbott    strtet.
Plains, Joseph  Dutkewicz,  37, of o'i
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Ono week ago today, Robert Ed¬ wards, handsome accused slayer of Freda McKechnie. sat In the com¬ fortable home ot Margaret Crain — his 23-year-old East Aurora, N, Y., fiancee—and quietly discussed their contemplated  marriage.
His Sunday today—seven "red letter" days later—will be spent within the narrow confines of a "Murderers Row" cell in Luzerne count.v prison,
I/ast Sunda.v Robert faced a fu¬ ture thist to his friends In general and Marg.aret Crain In particular, was bright with proml.se. She had her school training; he had employ¬ ment aa a Kingaton Coal Company surveyor,-
Today he Is held without ball to answer a charge of murder; a chiu-ge that he struck Freda Mc¬ Kechnie, Ills unwanted neighbor¬ hood sweetheart and an obstacle to his marriage plans with Margaret Crain, over the head with a lead- weighted blackjack and dragged hor uiiconsc^us form Into Harvey'a Lake,
The Commonwealth charges cool premeditation on Edwards' part. He is pictured aa driving back from Miss Grain's home In hia coupe early laat .Monday mornlns;, huildlng up a plan to rid himself ot Freda, an expectant mother. She had be¬ come more Inslatent that Robert wed her to avoid social diagrace, so inslatent, in tact, that thc youth h.id promised her they would elope to Virginia, So charges the prosecu¬ tion.
In his automobile was a black¬ jack, removed trom the dresser ot his fatlier, Daniel J, Edwards, Kingston Coal Company paymaster,' the Wednesday bi-fure his weok-enl trip to New York State from Ed¬ wardsvlile,
A Fatal Date Monday Robert "dated " Freda by telephone. He met the girl aul ono ot hor friends Monday nigiit, drove the other young woman to tier home and then motored to Harvey'a i iikv. There he struck her over the head as they gamboled alone near a bathing dock—deaortid becauae ot a heavy downpour of rain earlier in   the   evening.
Tuesday her body was dlacover¬ ed. That night Robert was taken Into custody.
Complete denial of the crime was made at flrst by the young sus¬ pect, Tlien (^jime the flrst of sev¬ eral versions until, at last, on Fri¬ day atternoon, police announced they were satisfied that the rctl story ot tho killing iiad been told, Friday nlglit Roliirt was cumiiii'.- ted to jail without ball to await convening ot the next grand Jury, August   20,
That, briefly. Is the story ot aeven "red letter' days in Robert Bldwards' life. In that short space of time the lives of three persons wore blasted asunder—violent death being the lot of one. And, for the deatli ot Freda, Robert Edwards today stands In the shadow of the electric  chair.
In the lioiic of sta\inc off a deatli
penalty for Robert as expiation ft his  crime,  his attorneys  last  nlgtlt cast about tor a defense,
Theae men. Attorney Leonard D. Morgan and John C, Phillips, would not venture a prediction last night as to how they plan their fight for Robert's life.
Realization that there remains a comparatively short time to prepare for a murder trial that is expected to be one of the most sensational in Luzerne county's criminal history, has spurred defense counsel to quick action.
Perhaps tomorrow or about mid¬ week, they said last night, their tlrst real conference with the prisoner will be held at the county prison. Attorney Phillips, his lone visitor yesterday, simply told Robert to bear up, reassuring blm that hl« friends have not forsaken him de¬ spite the enormity ot the crime ciiarged  against  him.
Defense Fund Ready There will bo no sliortage ot funds for Robert's fight for life. It wa» indicated last night. Lineal descen- dent of a family for whom the bor¬ ough of Edwardsvlile was named. Ills family and its branches stand high In position not only In Robert's home tow n, but In the State as well. Defense measures aro problem¬ atical, An Insanity claim, observers and lawyers In general contend, is out of the qiiostion, Robert's own admiaaiona that he clubbed Freda with hia father's blackjack may be admitted  at his trial,
Juat how much thla blow had to do with B'reda'a deatli may be the crux ot defense. The Conimun- wealth charges the girl died aa a result of the blow; at least, that was the allegation made at the preliminary arraignment Friday night.
Whether the otflclal report of doctors w-ho conducted the post mortem on Freda's body In Nesbitt Memorial bosriitiil will definitely fix the blow as the direct cause of de;itli, appo.ired unlikely. A gash on the girl's head extended about two liii-hes down the back and into the bone. Under ordinary circum¬ stances a wound of this nature would not be fatal. Freda did not drown, police said last week. There then remains suffocation as the death cauae.
Ciniiisel for Robert admitted last night that the statements made by Rnboit Willie in the cualody of State Police and count.v detertives will bs vigorously attacked. Thc very fact that he made three or four state¬ ments of lunfllctlng natures may be the foundation for a defense, that Ills prolonged incarcer.ttion in ths Edwardsvlile borough police station and Wyoming Barr.-irks upset the youth so that bis admissions were Incoherent.
Good  Cass,  Says  Stats
Commonwealth   attorneys   declare
the case against Robert Edward* la
a positive one.   They point out that
the   stutomeiits   ot   guilt   attributed
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THOUSANDS OF JOBS ACCREDITED TO NRA
Washington, Aug, 4.—UP—The NBA said today that a survey shows employment In the steel In¬ dustry during June Increased to 455,966, the highest point in tour years and 117,820 above June, 1933,
The June payroll was $49,466,644, or $18,905,903 more than June, 1933, the report said. The survey was mnde to sliow a year's operation under the steel i-odo, considering June, 1933, as the last pre-code month,
NRA attributed 112,000,000 ot the total wage Increase to the Blue Eagle, pointing out that over thc year wages had Increased 62 per¬ cent, although steel operations were only 23 percent higher.
Average hourly earnings in Juns were 63.9 cents aguinst 47.3 in Jun* 1933, Average weekly earnings, ac^ cording to tbe report, IncreaseA. from $18.6-1 to $22.81 during thsf year. . .>
The NRA report said that during the bi.\ muiitlis between June und December, 1933, the steel industrjf paid a total of $281,700,000 In sal¬ aries and wages to 394,943 employes, againat $9,600,000 In dividends to 514,244   stockholders.
The report also brought out lliat prices of products representing It percent of the industry's output r«« contly declined us mucli as H JpW tun.