Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1928, Page 17

~ ¥ STAR,: ‘WASHINGYON, -D. C, MONDAY, APRIL - «23:~ - 1928. THE EVENIN( - COTTON FORECAST | UPHELD BY EXPERT Department of Agriculture | Officials Back Crop Esti- | mate in 1927 Crash. — - | Proe [ Commerce officials got | th long-delayed opportunity today | to defend before the Senate cotton in- | vestigating committee official estimates | as to the ootton carryover and price- trend predictions which had been held responsible by previous witnesses for precipitating the 1927 price crash. | Lloyd 8. Tenny, chief of the Bureau | of Economics of the Agriculture Dv-l partment, the agency which put out the disputed statements, attempted to | read a long prepared explanation of | the circumstances leading up to the price-trend statement of September 15| Jast, around which the controversy has | raged for months. | He was promptly interrupted. how- | ever, by a barrage of questions by Sena- | of South Carolina, committee d Representative Rankin, | ing with the Senate in- b Anso Department of edly proceed ving would | stioners raised, | only to be to on Facts. to rest our recite them I Will Dance at Ball l JANET HELBIGH, |GREENWICH BAL BOHEME " PLANS ARE COMPLETED Lbuis Bromber to Award Painting ih Costume Contest at City Club Tomorrow. Arrangements have been completed for the first annual Greenwich Village Bal Boheme of the Greenwich Village Art Club in the City Club tomorrow night. Louls Bromber, well known oil {painter and stage designer of New | York, will serve on the judges commit- | tee and award one of his canvasses as a costume prize. Awards will be made |for the most beautiful. original, fantas- | tic. cubistic and futuristic costumes. | The committecs arranging the event include tume Dykaar, Louis Grant Floor committee committee-Moses | and Roy 8. judges Bromber Ruth Atleen. Zelda eiter, Alice Brokerheim, Elizabeth Flynn, Frank Butley. Tato Tamburino, Jim Koosin and William Ernoff Reception committce—Mrs. Samuel Robinson. Mrs.Allean Love, Horace Trumble, Mrs Johnson Lefter and Roberta Rubens Prize commitice—M. E. Stamen, M. Lewis, H. Waldet and Phillipe Alesan- dro. MRS. MARY C. ESHER DIES. of G. C. will Buried Wednesday. C. Esher. 63 years old, widow of George C. Esher, died at her| residence, Thirtcenth street, yes- day. | She leaves two sons, Albert D. and | J. Robert Esher, and two daughters, Mrs. John C. Roe of Pittsfield, Mass. and Mrs. Katharine E. Batson. E Widow Esher Be Mrs. Ma | Pennsylvania Murderers Electro- Mrs. Wart Hog, admittedly the most homely of beasts, gave birth to these young- sters at the Zoo several days ago. (Star Staff Photo.) TWO MEN DIE IN CHAIR. | cation. ing of George Greich of : Junetion, Washington County. cuted at Rockview Penitentiary. BELLEFONTE, Pa., April 23 (#).—| Marko Matakovich of Washington County and Robert Loftus, colored, of Philadelphia, were clectricuted today at Rockview Penitentiary Loftus was convicted of the shooting ' of railway lines in Anatolia | kovich was in love with Mrs. getting the wife, of Fora Terrell, colored, during an alter- | Matakovich was convicted of the kill- | Cokeburg ing to the testimony at his trial, Mata- and shot the husband as a means of | Circuit “HAUNTED” SHIP FAILS TO BURN FOR MOVIES Survives Two Attempts to Blast Her—Then Oil-Boaked Sails Flare and Go Out. | Correspondenca of the Assaciated Pross PORTLAND, England, — Amy s | tough. She's 5o’ tough she won't even burn. Old sailors think Amy's a witch! Three times the naval chaps have tried to destroy Amy—an old three- masted schooner—to provide a fitting and thrilling finish for an official mov- ing picture, And three times Army has | positively Tefused to die, even for the | movie director. | “The blowing up of the aged schooner | 1s necessary for completion of the film | which tella the gallint story of the British “Q" boats’ exploits in the fight against German submarines. | Tugs. a destroyer and a ‘submarine | have thrice convoyed Amy out into the | channel and pointed’ out her grave ‘They loaded her up with high explosive, | | but each time the electric connection | declined to function. Then they poured oil all over Amy's decks and sails, ana | touched her off. But the fire went out | and they towed Amy back to her dock. Yes. old Amy's tough. And she |18 haunted. old salts say. | Winchester Juror in Jail. Accord- | Special Dispatch to The Star, Greich | _ WINCHESTER. Va., April 23 —When Court convenes tomorrow for the trial of & number of criminal cases the name of at least one member of the jury panel will have to be stricken A French concern will build 120 miles | off, as he is serving a 60-day jail sen- neutralizes m "tence for drunkenness. 1T jconstruction and 17 automobiles wers | burned yesterday in a fire which de~ stroyed five buildings here. The loss was estimated at $150,000. A feed barn, a garage, a storage warehouse, one o ings With $150,000 Loss. the town's largest anditoriums and the |plant of the Ontario BRoat & Engine April 23 Works were burned. The origin of the rocess of | fire has not been determined digest™ Immediate Relief! ter-effects. Once vou you will never deal 100 BOATS, 17 AUTOS BURN | Ontario Blaze Destroys Five Bqu-‘ WALLACEBURG. 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Hs necessary action to and to take some on “false rumors reports.” a was promptly | challenged by Rankin with the sug-| gestion that the partment’s own | ptatements were of that character Tenny denied that carry over” computat leged by experts of the New Orleans | Cotton Exchange to be from 700.000 to | 800,000 bales too high. had failed to employ Census Bureau reports. | He also denied that foreign-grown cotton in the United States had been | included in the original Government | estimate of 7.800,000 bales American | crop carry-over “1 shall show that all available in- irms the fact that the of American cotton about 7,800,000 o | publicity - | founded ng the September challenged the statement that it was “humanely im- possible to forecast cotton prices.” “Our reply is that it can be done as it has been done.” he said. “Prices are not accidents, but the results of the Jaws of supply and demand That set committee members off on an investigation of what individuals in the Agriculture Department made up the September 15 siatement | Tenny named them. He was out of the city at the time, he said, but he accepted full responsibility for it. and | since his investigation of the research | work upon which it was based, stood | by the downward trend prediction, de- spite apparently “bullish” factors the Statement itself recited. ¥ | “Then, Mr. Tenny, you ought to sub- resignation right now,” Ran- kin declared o Seek His Removal. The Mississippi member said he pro- posed 1o press for Tenny's removal. | Senator Heflin, Alabama, wanted to | know if Secretary Jardine had read the | statement before it was issued. Tenny | did not know “The big feature that you and Sena- tor Smith are overlooking.” Tenny told Benator Heflin, “is the supply of cot- ton on hand.” He said that there had been a total of 20,000,000 bales indicated when the price statement was drawn up and that such a total had never sold above | an average of 20 cents a pound. “That overbalanced other apparently bullish factors.” he added. 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