Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1929, Page 22

HARRISS DESCRIBES DELIVERY METHODS Cotton Leaders Held More Legislation on Futures Is Not Needed at Present. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., April 9.—Additional legislation to control future contracts in cofton is not necessary at this time in the opinion of members of the Atlantic Cotton Association, who yes- terday adopted a resolution embodying that belief, but at the time expressing their willingness to co-operate in fram- ing legislation that may be deemed Recessary by Congress. The resolution was contained in the report of the future contracts commit- tee, of which B, T. Lowe of Augusta Ga,, is chairman, and was submitted at the opening business session of the sixth annual convention of the associa- tion, which convened at the Cavalier WILL EXPEND $2,500,000 IN BUILDING OF BARGES ‘War Secretary Awards Contracts for Construction of Vessels for In- land Waterways Corporation. By *he Associated Press. Contracts involving an expenditure of almost $2,500,000 tor the construction of 40 steel barges to be used on the lines of the Inland Waterways Corpora- tion on the Mississippi, Missouri and |} Warrior Rivers were let yesterday by |[i Secretary Good of the War Department. ‘The contracts are part of a generzl Bolky for nu dmlopment of the barge nes recently adopted at the instance of Maj. Gen. T. Q. A!hb\lm chairman of the corporation. The barges will be bullt by three concerns, the American Bridge Co., at Pittsburgh, 24 barges; the Riter Conley Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh, 11 barges, and the Midland Barge Co., Midland, Pa., 5 barges. Each company bid $61,000 for the construc- tion of each submitted bids which ranged up to $107,675. U. S, JOBS AVAILABLE. Civil Service Commission An- nounces Competitive Examinations. The United States Civil Service Com- | | mission announces the following open Hotel Virginia Beach, yesterday morn- | competitive examinations: The address of Richard T. Harriss, Hospital librarian, at $1,800 a year, Veterans' Bureau hospitals throughout formerly of Texas, but now of New |the United States. York, former president of the New Associate chemical engineer (naval York Cotton Exchange, on “The new |stores), Southern Delivery Contract of the New York Cotton Exchange,” was regarded by the delegates as the outstanding event of the day. Mr. Harriss is one of the few Southern men ever to head the New York exchange, and is regard- ed as one of the foremost authorities on cotton in the country. Mr. Harriss expressed the belief that the new contract, which recently was adopted and will go into effect October of this year, will prove beneficial to | shippers, merchants and manufacturers alike. “And if, later on, deliveries at New York should be placed on equal terms with deliveries at Southern ports,” he said, believe the New York contract will constitute as nearly | a perfect hedge as can be devised for & future contract.” | ‘The session, except for the address | of Mr. Harriss and that of President | J. S. Billings of Albany, Ga., was taken up largely in hearing routine reports. SUICIDE IS IDENTIFIED AS GREEK BOOKKEEPER| Man Found Dead, Once an Embez- | zler, Left Note Telling of Unrequited Love. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 9.—The man found & suicide on the beach of the campus of Northwestern University in Evans- ton, Saturday, and thought to have been the scion of a wealthy French family, was identified yesterday by two acquaintances and a former employer as a Greek bookkeeper. The employer said that the man had embezzled $1,500 four years ago, but was never prose- cuted. The suicide was identified as 'nmo- Jeon Costopoulo by Peter Bougas, friend, and George Chulas, the (urmer employer of the man. Mrs. Francis Walker, mother of the university co-ed who yesterday declared the youth was Timon de Coston, the son of a French ambassadorial attache at Constantinople, testified at the in- quest yesterday that no attachment ever existed between her daughter and Cos- topoulo, although he had been a friend of the family for three years. Notes found in the dead man's ef- fects told of an unrequired love for the girl. 120 SEEK COMMISSIONS. College Graduates Apply for Serv- ice in Marine Corps. 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