Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1926, Page 30

FALURE F OTTON | CROPPLAN S SEN 'Holding Feature Not Func- tioning, Although Credit Is Available, Says Banker. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, 16.—Belief that the movement inaugurated during a South-wide = meeting in Memphis, Tenn., several weeks ago, does not seem to be functioning, was expressed here by T. F. Dx , president of the Federal Farm Loan Bank of New Orleans, in a luncheon club address. “A decline in cotton prices began in September and the price does not seem to have touched hottom even yet,” Mr. Davis declared. “Many plans for relief were suggested, main- ly center! around holding the crop for better prices. For the firgt time in the history of the South there was plenty of ney available for this purpose. Not only were the Northern banks ready to step in with direct loag:s on cotton, but the machinery was available fo mount of financing through the Government’s interm@Mite credit banks. Our bank alone was pledged to advance as much as $30,000,000. “All overlooked the fact, however, that the control of cotton was not in the hands of the growers. crop in the South t ar but was mortgaged too heavily in advance in view of present prices. “While the banks are still ready to advance money for holding cotton, the holding movement has not gotten ve: far. There is, of course, a considera- ble amount being held back by th associations, as is the case every sea- son, but cotton is being sold right along, in spite of the advisability of holding it for better prices. “There is no cause for special worry, however. These circles come in cycles, about every 7 or 8 years. If people want to hold the money is available. If they don't it needn’t cause alarm. We are too much dis- posed to make too much of bad things. “A reduction in acreage will cer- tainly be enforced next year. For the reason that the lending capacity of La., December cotton-holding the merchants and others who finance the growing of the crop will be ma- terially curtailed. This always hap- pens after a yvear of overproduction and bad prices. Aside from this an elaborate 1 -ogram for acreage reduc- tion was adopted at the recent Mem- phis cotton conference and this pro- gram is being followed. It is most far- reaching and intelligent and should be the most successful effort ever made along this line.” —_——— ROGERS SEEKS TIPS. Comedian Tells Mayor Office Re- sembles’ “Chop Suey Joint.” PITTSBURGH, Pa., December 16 (P).—“Wow! This looks like a chop suey joint,” exclaimed Will Rogers as he entered the office of Mayor Charles H. Kline yesterday. His remark was prompted by the large number of pleces of furniture given the execu- tive by local ‘merchants. Rogers sald he dropped around to secure a few “tips” on how a mayor should function, having recently been elected mayor of Beverly Hills, Calif., which “doesn’t mean anything out New Smyrna Figs 8-0z. jar Figs, plain. 12-0z. jar Figs, plain. 15-0z. jar Figs, plain. 14-0z. basket Figs. 1-1b. jar Cresca Figs. 2-1b. jar Cresca Figs....$1.35 1-1b. box 6 Cr., pulled....45¢c 2-1b. box 7 Cr., pulled....85¢c 5-1b. box 7 Cr., pulled. ..$2.00 23%-inch Layer Figs, 1b...35¢c Extra Large Layers, Ib...40c Cooking Figs, Ib.........20c Breakfast Figs, in cans...35c Magruder Inc. Best Groceries Phone Main 4180 Established 1875 We're not sure the e —sald it or not. But ’tis re- ported that Marie remarked the American business man was strong on success but shy on sentiment. ‘We don’t believe the Queen ever got a good glimpse of the average American business man. Certainly those chaps who tried to pull a high hat over a head that was only meant to ho}a ears apart were not typi- cal. And the ones who kissed her hand and backed bashfully out of the bay window, could hard- ly be called ordinary, every- day business men. But the combination of suc- cess and sentiment is quite a commen trait. We've seen sen- timent, great gobs of it in a corner grocery and in the big factory. ‘We know successful men of big business who, year after year send messages of Good Cheer and Good .Will to cus- tomer and prospect. They are sincere in the sen- timents they convey and the recipients know they are. "~ 'ACE LETTER SHOP Creators and Producers of Direct Mail Advertising E. Wright Emory, Proprietor 203-4-6-8 District National Bank Building 1406 G Street N.W. Phone Main 4565 Hardly a By the Associated Presa. ST. LOUIS, December 16.—Radio movies, an invisible ray that permits vision in total darkness, airplanes which fold up their wings like birds and an electrical “third degree” ap- paratus to detect robbers are some of the possibilities and accomplishments peeping from the magic box of mod- ern science. Not o long ago, as time is counted on this earth, man bridged the At- lantic Ocean in a ship, a few decades ago he stretched cables, more re- cently he telephoned and transmitted photographs across the water, and for the future there looms the radiv movie, A glimpse into the dream realm of the radio movie, which may soon cease to be a dream, was given by Dr. E. F. W. Alexanderson, consult- ing engineer of the General Electric Co. and the Radio Corporation of America, in an address here last night, explaining a television pro- jector. Sees Television Success. “Our work has already prpved that the expectation of television is not unreasonable and it may be accom- plished with means that are in our possession at the present day,” said Dr. Alexanderson. “How long it will take to attain practical television I - | do not venture to say. “We have at least progressed so far that a commercial radio picture service across the Atlantic Ocean is in operatfon. It takes at present 20 minutes to send one of these pic- tures.” The speaker explained that a tele- vision projector which he had been using in laboratory experiments had accomplished the rudio transmission of a single photograph in two minutes, but that television would require the transmission, reception and production of a single picture in one-sixteenth of a second. “One of the fundamental difficulties in the way of a speed of 16 pictures a second is the development of a pro- ) \“\;fil Z 44 THE 'PERFECTION OF INVISIBLE RAY TO PERMIT VISION IN DARKNESS ipossibilities of Discovery in Warfare Out-~ lined at St. Louis Meeting—New Ap- paratus to Detect Robbers. jector which will enable any one to see on a screen the movement of objects miles away,” he said. is easy enough to design a television vstem with something like 40,000 pictures a second, but the images so obtained are so crude that they would have no practical value. This speeding up of the process is, unfortunately. one of those cases where the difficulties increase by the square of the speed.” Another Startling Discovery. From Londori came reports of an- other startling discovery in television, the Dy Mail declaring that seeing in total darkness by means of an invisible ray had been demon- strated feasible through an invention of John L. Baird, a British sclentist. Mr. Baird's televisor isolates and then employes rays which are outside the visible spectrum, the sensitive electric eye of the apparatus readily selecting rays invisible to the human eye. In a demonstration, Baird's in- visible “searchlight” projected on a screen the outlines of a man sitting in total darkness. “Darkness will no longer give security as a cloak for military opera- tions,” eald’ Capt. O. G. Hutchinson, an associate of the inventor, in ex- plaining how the apparatus could be used in warfare, in addition to aiding trains, ships and airplanes in the fog. Advances in airplane construction were described to a Baltimore audi- ence by Edward P. Warner, Assist- ant Secretary of the Navy for Aero- nautics. He spoke of great strides that were being made in perfecting planes with folding wings, those with From India Direct Importations Less Than Wholenale Prices WECKSLER BROS. & CO. 1420 Oak St. N. W. Columbia 9211 .Christmas Giving Inspection is invited of the hundreds of pieces or Sterlin able as Silver, suit- oliday gifts, now ‘shown by us. The weight and strength of each piece guarantees the gift a permanent place in the family history. Silver ordered before December tw e ntieth will be engraved in time for Christmas. delivery before For *one hundred and “twenty-two years (since 1802) we have enjoyed the fiatnma 4 of those most closely identified with the afif- cial and social life of the Capital and Nation Friday: Two Groups of Pre-eminent Smartness + A Group of \ DRESSES in satin, ie‘ruy and kasha. 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Innocent parties failed to betray any emotion. Efforts of subjects to lle or conceal the truth were frustrated by an apparatus that showed lowered electrical resistance of the skin when the subject hid the truth. An interesting radio experiment to- night will turn on more than 3,500 St. Louis street lights, the first section of a new $8,000,000 street lighting sys- tem. The voice of Mayor Victor J. Miller will go over the phone to sta- tion KDKA, at East - Pittsburgh, where it will be retransmitted by a powerful short-wave equipment to a special recefving equipment at St. Louls, which will throw into opera- tion an automatic substation control- ing the lighting system. As experiments with radio as a transmitting medium across the ocean progressed, it was recalled that in trials preparatory to transatlantic telephone service, engineers had talk- ed with New York recently from booths in London stores. In one in- stance an English call was put through to Chicago. CLUESLEAD POLE TOHOME TRACEDY Tracing Identity of Suicide, Detective Finds Victim’s Wife Murdered. By the Associated Press. READING, Pa., December 16.— Working separately on an apparent murder and suicide last night, police found their clues runnirg together and ul!:’co\'ersd a famlily tragedy 24 hours old. Mrs. Mabey Snyder, 29, was found dead in her home, her body mutilated and the house in disorder, while the body of a man who had leaped into the path of-a train Tuesday night was identified as that of her husband, Har- old Snyder, 29. Noting the woman's absence a sis- ter notified police and they went to Christmas, 1926 SHOP EARLY—MAIL EARLY FOR BETTER SERVICE DECEMBER 16, 1926. the Snyder home and broke in a door. Lying on a cedar chest ina bedroom ‘was the body of Mrs. Snyder, the neck blue from choking. Meanwhile a detective seeking to identify a man killed by the freight train arrived at the house. 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