Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1928, Page 6

~ FARMRELIEFBAL REPORTINSENATE Changes Far Reaching, Says Chairman McNary, of $250,- 020.000 Measure. The lonz-awaited McNary-Hauzen farm relief bill, modided i an efiort to meoet objections o1 P juene Covtan . but retaining the cont zation fee. was repo: Or~zon. for the Tho report noi change:” make the bill a | BROTHERS DIE IN HOUR. Blacksmith and Farmer in West Virginia Each Lsaves Family. Specinl Dispateh 1o The Star SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. Va...March 8 —James M* Myel 0 'l h, o 5 eath ot ofr separals homes near hare last 1 Each hac Sach loaves a family. WILLIAM E. LITTLE, " ENGRAVER, IS DEAD for som® days Retired U. 8. Bureau Employe Was Leng Instructor of Ap- prentiees Here, ferent measure” from that which passed | the Inst Conaress. adding that it is ad- Provision for Loans. “The .changes wi have madc.” it conunued. “meet. in pari, the obj Presi former me without his approval. Especiall @acs the. present bill provide an almest nited opportunity for the adminis- trative body created under it (o deal the prob! ot azricultural sur- plo throuzh Icans and edvanc which those Who have wpposed the past eommittee bills urge would be fully ade quate to meet the situation.” 2 arably acted vre commiiiae nearly uthorize an ap- 1 §%70.000.000 to carry oat T ons: the ™am one ¢ wnich 1= that expenscs of marketing any sur- lus crops shell b> bame by the producers through means of the egual- iation fce levied back on those producers, One administration obisction met is that no limitation would be placed on dential power of appointment deral Farm Board created under the bill. the ex-officio chairman of vhich would be the Secretary of Azriculture. Twelte additional mem- brrs would compnse the board. one .For AN Commodities. The now bill elso would be applicable | for all egricultural commodities, instead of enumcrating six “basic” commodi- tics, as & resuit of the opinion cxpressed by President Coolidge that the former measure “simngies out 8 few products chiefly sactioncl” for its operations. ‘The extended report. pointed out that the bill “propasss two distinct and en- tirely ssparate remedies: first. loans to co-operative associations at a low rate of interest! as’ frequengly susggested by the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr, Jar- dine. and second. in cas: of failure of the first remedy to accomplish the pur- poses of the act, the making of market- ing agreements providing that losses on transactions authorized under the agreements would be absorbed by the eommodity whose producers receive the direct benefit.” “Both methods.” the report adds. “are directed toward promoting orderly mar- Keting, and in the cas® of tariff-pro- * tected commoditics, making the tariff effective.” COAL OUTPUT GAINS. West Virginia Tops Pennsylvania for, First Time, For the first time in history. West Virginia moved in front of Pennsylvania @3 the largesi coal-producing State in the Union. Preliminary estimates by the Buresu of Mines today placed Wes: Virginia bituminous production in, 1927 4t 151.680,000 short tons, sgainst 131.- 907.000 for Perifisylvenia. Pennsylyania, however. still leads ‘a production of all kinds of coal. its combined 2nthracite and bituminous output having been 2]1.659.000 tons in 1927. The coal industry employed more than 750,000 men throughout the United States in 1927, INDIANS GET RIFLES: 8000 Krag Pieces, With Acces- soriee, Given for School Use. At the irstance of Senator Hayden Democrat. Arizona, 3.000 modern-Krag rifies. with accompanying equipment of bayonets. scabbards and cartridge belts, have been turned over by the War De- partment to the Bureau of Indian Af- fairs for use in the military training at m_li]‘ul boarding schools. the standard Springficld rifi mmmmlmmtmmlmmmmmnmmnmlmnnnnmmmmmluuvmmmmummnnll; abave photograph learly illustrates the charming design of the new “1lorizontal” hingde which offers the cconomy of the hex: able for Army | ali- | not_decided on details on the measure socks were sent from this' country to retired emplove in2 and Print- mic and Eastern Park, yesterday aiter a long illne: s As an instructor of apprentice plate pris whom he taugit the frt of makinz moncy. he had the reputation of having “tausht more people how to make meney than has gny one else in the world.” He was' ratired from th. Bavernment, service -August 20, 1920 RIter 45 vears' continuous service. H» was a na‘ive of New York. and came to *his city In 1875, when he was appoint- ed a plate orinter in the bureau. . Mr. Liitle was a member of New Jorusalem Lodze. No. 9, F. A A M ; of Columbia Chapter. No. 1, Roval Arcl: Masons, and a membor of tas Plate Printers’ Union H~ was a bachelor. Surviving are a® brother. Thomos H:" Little, and four nleces, Mrs. Charloite Hacketi, Mrs. Loulse Hanford, Mrs. “a. F. Roach and Mrs. Loonard Ruoff. all of 3151 Moua: Pleasant street Funeral services will:b> conducted in the S. H Hines funeral homo, 2901 Fourteenth street, tomorrow afternoo: at 2 o'clock. Interment will bs in Rock Crdek Cemeterv, with Masonic rites at tthe arave by th» New Jerusalem Lodsc Pallbrarers will bs selected from among the plate printers of the. Bureau of En- «eraving and Printing. MRS. ELLA K. MEARS DIES AT SISTER'S HOME Drughter of Late Capt. Henry M. f° Knight Was Native of Capital. | Mrs. Ella_Knight Mears, daughter of the late Capt. and Mrs. . Henry M. Knight, died at the home of her sister, | { Mrs. Dora K. Mulr, 1615 Webster street, terday after a three days’ illness. Mrs. Mears was a member of the So- ciety of the Natives of the Distriot of Columbia, the Order of the Eastern Star and the Sixth Presbyterian Church. . Funeral services will be conducted -at the residence tomorrow afternoon at, 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Godfrey Chobot will officiate. Interment will be in Congres. sional Cemetery. She is survived by her sisters, Mis. Millard F. Thompson. Mrs. C. W. | Holmes. Mrs. Dora K. Muir. Mrs. W. R. Schmucker. Mrs. G. P. Ritter, and her | brothers, Harry T. Knight. all of Wash- ,ington. and Dr. Carlisle P. Knight of New London, Conn. s She was married twice. in 1906 to Lewis Y. Ellls of Washington, who died iIn 1908. and to Louis Mears of Brooklyn, ! who died in 1924. SHOE THIEF IS BUSY. Store Robbed for Third Time in ¢ Two Months. : Some on¢ ‘who wears No. 7 shoes and who i 1y believes in window shopping i4 spparently keeping him- self well shod at the expense of the {University Shop, 506 Ninth street, | Three times in the past two months {nolice have received reports that the show window of that store has been irifled 2nd each time shoes of the same jsize and manufacture have beén taken; The last robbery was reported vester- day afternoon, when one pair of tan and two of black shoes. cll size 7, | vere taken. . ! . Boxing Bill Near Report. The Senate District committee may meet tomorrow to take action on the amateur boxing bill and the bill passed receptly by the House for a new child {labor law for the District. The com- ittee already has taken testimony res ating to the two different amateur xing bills that are pending., but has tn be reported. 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The memortal is to be dedicated to all cans who have lost their lives ; | Congress hos given ths memorial site and ths model of th: ‘'monwfisnt has | becn completad, Th~ proposed Navy and Marino ial is 1o b2 located in East Potomac & on the bank of the Georgetown channel, about midway botween the en- vk at the railrord briage and Homn nt, the latter originaliy soleeted £s the site. The National Com- ien of Fine Arts, has approved the nd the desizn, which depicts a s:a-green wave over which s-a gulls gre fiying. -Th> monument will be o1 Bronz.. Th> Act' eranting authority . for the site and stipulating that th> Govern-| ment was to b» placed at no:expense was passed by Congress on February 16 1924. Models, sketches and other plans have been completed for some time: a subsgription campaign was started sev- eral years ago.. A list of donorsiwa: published showing the names of many prominent _persons who have given a much as $5.000 cac! The a) -ct 13 Harvey Wiley Cor- bett. Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. N. retired, heads the executiye committee of the drganization which I hancling the project. ) The site in Poiomac Park will gite a view from the roadway directly down the river in the direction of Alexandria Looking from the front of the memorial an obzervor will see nothing but water | behind it. The project involves @ changing of the roadway in the vicinity ! of the site and the cutting of an inlet into Potomac Park.- M STREET BRIDGE PLANS INSPECTED| Fine Arts Commission Withholds Action—Wright Memorial Approved. | Plans for the new M Street Bridge already approved by the commission in principle, came before the Commission of Fine Arts today for approval as to 1ts location with respect to the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway. which is to be tonstructed underneath the bridze {over Rock Creek at M street. The { commission viewed the plans for the { steel girder structure and withheld tion. At the same time Representative | Warren of Pennsylvania was in con- ference with the commission . on the physical details of jhe memorial tower | N. C.. to commemorate the first flight ! in a_motor-driven airplane by Orville Wright. The plan was approyed and A design &l be submitted later. The commission also conferred with Frank | Morrlu& secrotary,.of the egican Federal wf Labor, on the propbsed | memo Samuel Gompers,” former president of the federation. to be erect- | ed at Tenth street and Massachusetts rnue N 1 _This afternoon the commission mem- | bers were to inspect a model of the | proposed treatment of the plaza west of { the Lincoln Memorial, inyolving the | water gate and the proposed underpass. { which has already been approved in [ principle. A model prepared by the en- | gineer..department of ‘the ‘Army illus- | trates the treatment at the water gate | and the proposed underpass. 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