Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1922, Page 19

" WORLD NEED FEAR ND WHEATFAMINE 20,000,000 acres, or more tbam 12 per cent greater than last season. - A° reduction in the areas under wheat occurred in Europe, and there also_was a slight reduction in the wheat area in the United States, but this is neutralized by an increase in India. Rye sowings increased both in Europe and the United States. Survey |Indicates Exportingi ' ALEXANDRlA Countries to Have Surplus of 11,800,000 Tons. By the Associated Press. ROME. March 1S.—After setflng' aside the quantities of wheat required | eral nights ago he entered the homes|ber of commerce at 8 o'clock of former Representative Charles C.|day night. for hom i e consumption until the mext: 8¢ [0, RERESCUI laton street. | coun- tries will have an exportable surplus harvest, the wheat-exporting ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 18 (Spe- cial)—A youth giving the name of Donald W. Martsch, fitteen years old, who says hiz home is at Arcturus, Fairfax county, and who says he at- tends a high school in Washington, is being held by the police, following a statement made by the lad that sev- and George D. North Hopkins, 311 Washington street, of 11,800,000 metric tons, says a|Tho police say he obtained but little i 2 the statement coccerning the world's | L5, Cither place. Accerding to wheat supply just issued by the In- ternational Institute of Agriculture. 1t is impossible to form an accurate estimate of the quantities the im- porting countries will reauire before next wheat crop will be gathered, adds the statement, but it is asceriained that the aggregate wheat crops in the im-| King and Columbus porting countries which are (urnlslh' K the end of July, when their police the boy obtained a key to the safe deposit box of Mr. Hopkins and today proceeded to the Citizens' Bank. He was detained b bank officials and the police notified. He, it is said, admitted he entered the two houses, the occupants being out of the city. Later the police obtained a small hand satchel cortaining a quantity of goods which, iL is claimed, he had checked at the office of the Wash- [ington-Virginia Railway Company at treets. Accord- ing data to the institute will be con—l“’"““"‘ to et into the safe deposit siderably larger than iast year, be- tons compared with 21,800,000 metric tons last year. Imports of all the importing coun- tries together between August and De- were larg>r than the ing 27,700,000 metric cember, 1921, previous year, and, of 1922 ditional quantities imported cording to the institute, wil within the limits of the surplus. It is even probable that an exportable surplus will still exist in August, 1922 The aggregate sowings of wheat during nier extended to 10%- 000,000 or 1.3 per cent more than last 3 gs reached * Home Isn’t What It Used to Be What a happy change it was for the American home when the N old-fashioned formal parlor gave way to the modern, comfortable liv- ¢ ingroom. Nomore do we see the haircloth sofa, the family album, the " wheezing organ or the chromos on the walls. They’re gone forever with their formality and uncomfortableness and now everywhere in {You asked what caused this change? supposing the shipments between January and July reach the same figure (de- spite the increased yields and ad- during the last five months) the totals. ac- still_be ortable box of Mr. Hopkins, thinking that possibly there might either be money or liberty bonds in the box. In the E s 7 ® % o 2 P 2 g & B @ ® o £ 3 [ flashlight, a ring and other articles statements. The boy will be given a hearing Monday in the police court, it is expected. Congiderable interest just now cen- ters aroynd the mass meeting to be placing a ticket in the field for city council. The election, at which five councilmen are to be chosen. under the provisions of the council man- ager plan form of city government. will be held June 13. The new form of city government will become op- erative September 1. At the mass meeting it Is proposed M v Ul ing to the police the lad said he in- | The police are still checking up his held March 27 for the purpose of | to riominate fifteen, who in turn will meet and nominate five persons, who Will enter the race for the city coun- It is regarded as highly probable that others besides thosa nominated at this mass meeting also will enter the race independent of this. Rev. Dr. Wallace E. Rollins of the Episcopal® Theological Seminary will deliver his third lecture on “The Epistles of St. Paul’ in Christ Epis- copal Church, Tupsday night. An in- vitation is extended to representa- tives of the other churches in the city to attend. Representative Cooper of Ohio will deliver a lecture at 3 o'clock tomor- Tow afternoon in the Westminster | building. A special musical program will be_gl\'en. Dr. Kate Waller Barrett will ad- dreds the League of Women Voters of the city in the rooms of the cham- Mon- Accotink Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. 75. of Accotink. Fai the" pollcs Say. | airfax county, will, April 30, celebrate the 103d anni- versary of the order in the Liberty Theater at Camp Humphreys. Among the speakers will be Senator Claude A. Swanson and Rev. Dr. John Lee Allison. Miss Helen N. Cummings of this city has been named on the commit- tee of the women's clubs to arrange for the permanency of national head- quarters in Washington. RAIL CASE DISMISSED. RALEIGH. N. C. Murch 18.—The tate of North Caroline today won its railroad fax case when the special court, consisting of United States Judges Waddill, Boyd and Connor, dismissed the injunction asked by the Scaboard Air Line railway. Southern ailway, Atlantic Coast Line rail- road and the Norfolk-Southern rail- road. to prohibit State Collector of Revenue Watts from collecting taxes | on the full amount of values fixed for the roads. BANKER ROBBED OF $9,000. KANSAS CITY, Mo.. March 18— Three bandits, two_of t masked, took $9,000 from Lee Williams, cashier of the Inter-City ate Bank, and Charles James, iis teller, as they were returning from an uptown bank this morning. living rooms we see luxuriant overstuffed furniture. JUDGE MAKES RULE FOR NEWS PRESSES Justice McCoy Settles Ques- tion of Number of Men to Work Machines. A finding has been handed down by Chief Justioe McCoy of the Supreme Court-of the District of Columbia, acting as neutral member of an arbi- tration board of three, that four men should be employed on quadruple presses, five on sextuple and eeven on octuple pregses in local newspaper | publishing plants. Thie publishers had contended that they should be: permitted to say themselves how many men should be employed. The question, together with other matters affecting working conditions, was rcferred to the arbitration board after the agreement between the pub- lishers and the union had expired by limitation last fall, following which | a wage reduction of $2 a week had | been agreed upon by both parties. The finding will be put into the fare ! ¢ v acreenfent to run until andum_accompanying | ccision Justice MoCoy. pointed out, however, that “the contract fixes the number of men for a press in actual operation, not for a press whol- ly or partly dead, nor does it re- ¢ that any man or certain men are to operate a certain press and no other.” In reaching his conclusion not to} srant the contention of the publishers | that they be permitted to fix the | number of men to be employed, “with due regard to efficient operation of | the presses and_the hazard of work,” Justice McCoy further said: “If it were clear that the wish to fix_the number of employes is due to « desire to limit production without 1 { Well, some say it was fathér—tired of having to smoke his pipe and read the evening paper in the kitchen for fear he might muss up the “front room.” No mat- ' ter what caused it, the change is here and it’s a happy one, too. It . puts real comfort where the family can enjoy it and knits closer the family ties. For your living room—and mine—there is no Furniture made that will stand the hard, everyday wear, and yet be graceful and beau- - Expensive? Not a bit of it—which is all the more surprising tiful, like Karpen Overstuffed Furniture—deep, luxuriantly uphols- tered pleces with Karpenesque resilient spring cushions and upholster- ed in fine tapestries and damasks. They’re pieces that you can lay . back in and rest to your heart’s content. deep, soft cushioned rockers and fine old wing chairs. Big, roomy davenports, when you know they are of Karpen make. Why, there’s a six-foot " fine big-pillow-arm tapestry upholstered suite at $395.00. There’s some features-we’d like to explain in person—won’t you come in? I'.ifetim—c F'ur;i-furre_ Is More Thafn a Name overstuffed davenport at $165.00, a three-piece suite at $295.00 and WASHIN'GTON ) D. ‘0, MARCH 19, reference to what may be reasonsbly expected of every m.:n the decisfon would be easy. Arbitrary limitation of output cannot be approved. ‘1922—PART 1. SHELL EXPLODES IN CLASS Flu_ Children Hurt by Cartridge school at Fords, near hear, injuring five children and throwing twenty-five more into a panic. * Robert Kovacs, thirteen, was handling the cartridge, which he said he had Fords school. When news of the ae- cident spread mothers hurried to the school to ascertain whether thelr chil- |dren had been hurt. The accident may result in an in- ROAD SALE PUT OVER. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn;, March 18.— The Tennessee, Alabama’ and Georgia raliroad was offered or ssie 2t pubile outecry here toda; lor 0 - 8! . o ‘bids were received and the sale goes over to April 1. Found Near Arsenal. PERTH AMBOY, N. 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