Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1929, Page 4

REED MAY SPLIT G.0. P. ONTARIFF Potential Battle Is Seen Over | Increase Demands From Pennsylvania. BY MARK SULLIVAN, The real commotion that Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania may start in this Congress is not the present one about national origins, but a potential | one about the tarifl. As to national | origins, Senator Reed is for it and President Hoover is against it. In that discrepancy, Senator Hiram Johnson of California humorously sees a schism THE EVENING STAR, WA in the Republican party. Senator Johnson pictures Senator | Reed and Reed's associates as “regular | Republicans who prate of their regu- | larity opposing President Hoover... | the President of the United States and the head of the Republican party of which the Senator (Reed) is such an | ornament and in which I am such an | outcast.” | Johnson Sounds “Warning.” Senator Johnson warned Senator Reed that “there will come a time, per- haps not very far in the future, when he (Reed) will be shaking his gory locks at me, and I want to make very plain where he stands today in his regularity and in his following of the President.” There isn’t much in that, and Sen- ator Johnson didn’t mean there should be much more than an occas! Senate laughter. National origins is good déal short of a fundamental ques- tion of party policy. Republicans and Democrats will vote indiscriminately on | both sides of it. Congressmen will be | influenced by whether they have or have not among their constituents large groups of German, Scandinavian or | Irish voters more than by party affil- {ation. But there is just ahead the tariff, and | on that Senator Reed seems squinting | toward a pesition which may cause B: real commotion and a real cleavage in | the Republican party. On the tariff| President Hoover has said the revision of the industrial part of it should be “limited.” Speaker Longworth means the same thing when he says the changes should be “as few as possible.” It may fairly be said that the official | Republican program is to_restrict the industrial part of the tariff revision to| 2 very small number of changes in a| very small number of schedules. Pennsylvania “Hints” Rife. ‘But out of Pennsylvania almost daily | come hints_associated with the name of Senator Reed of Pennsylvania which point at broad general revision. The latest printed in the leading chub-‘ lican paper in Pennsylvania, speaks of | Senator Reed being joined by the Pennsylvania Republican delegation in the Lower House in behalf of “‘general revision to include Pennsylvania's big- | gest industries contrary to President Hoover's desire.” - Without any doubt, a formidable number of manufacturers, in Pennsyl- vania and elsewhere, expect to defeat President Hoover’s wish to keep the tariff revision “limited.” Some manu- facturers express the intention quietly in Washington. Others proclaim it publicly elsewhere. The Manufacturers’ Record carries in large type on the cover of its current issue a call for “complete revision of the present tariff, however much President Hoover may desire that only a slight revision srWil be carried out at the present time.” Real Commotion May Follow. If Senator Reed, or other Republican Benators as powerful as he, expect to become spokesmen’ this demand, there will be yeal motion. ‘Their desire is for general févision, with the revision all upward. Phey will be joined on the first half of their journey by ‘Western Senators who favor general re- vision, but revision downward. After the two groups get their common desire for general , but at the. point ‘where they part company as to direc- tion, there will be a world of grief for the Republican party. Possibly Senator Reed and the Penn- sylvania Republican delegation may not intend to start anything. Pos- sibly these noises coming out of Penn- sylvania are blank cartridges fired to impress the committee on ways and means which is now writing the official tariff revision, Possibly the Pennsyl- vanian may be satisfied with such small changes in their favor as they can scare the committee into giving them. WALDENSIAN PROGRESS IN ITALY TO BE TOLD Paola Bosio Will Lecture Tomor- row at Washington Club on Church, ‘The Washington branch of the Wal- densian Aid Society will hold an open meeting at the Washington Club, Sev- enteenth and K streets, at 4:30 o'clock tomorrow after- noon, when Paola Bosio, who is vis- iting America in the interest of the Waldensian Church, will speak on présent-day conditions in Italy as they affect the ‘Waldensian Church. The Washington branch is under the leadership of Mrs. Douglas P. Birnie and for years has received support from many of the District churches. Signor Boslo is the pastor of one of the large churches in Rome, Italy, and brings an able and interesting interpretation of the Italian situation, according to his sponsor. Paola Bosio, COMMISSIONERS TO VIEW FOUR SQUARES TUESDAY | Hearing on Value of Holdings in Area Is Scheduled for May 14 at Courthouse. Arthur C. Lampe, J. Walter Farran and Edward W. Thompson, the com- missioners selected by Justice Peyton Gordon of the District Supreme Court to assess the value of the land included in the four squares lying between ‘Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, Pen: sylvania avenue and B street, an nounced today they will view the prop- erty Tuesday. They will assemble at the courthouse May 14 to begin the taking of testimony as to the value of the various holdings in that area. Assistant United States Attorneys General Henry H. Glassie and A. Left- wich Sinclair will eonduct the proceed- ings for the Government, while the property owners are represented by an array of counsel, [/ Y Concrete Delivered —in our TRANSIT MIXER TRUCKS—speeds up your work and saves you all your mixer troubles. Left to right: of Education, Jere J. Crane, appointed yesterday to fill the newly cre- ated post of business manager of the schools; Dr. Frank W. Ballou, reappointed superintendent of schools yesterday, and Charles F. Carusi, president of the Board | —Star Staff Photo. STUDYB. &0, SPAN OVER HUDSON RIVER Army Engineers Passing on Final Data of $180,000,000 Bridge Into New York. By the Associated Press. Army engineers are passing upon final plans of the $180,000,000 highway and railway bridge across the Hudson River, connecting West Fifty-seventh street, New York City, with New Jersey. North River Bridge Co., which is to build it, has announced the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. will be associated in the project. War Department officials said today a decision would be made by Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, chief of engineers, with- in a short time, upon what require- ments will be necessary. The bridge was authorized by Con- gress in 1917, and plans were filed by the bridge company with the War De- partment in 1923. Differences as to the details of the structure have been the subject of discussion between the engi- neers of the bridge company and the Government's engineers since that time. Most of these have been ironed out, but the outstanding difference at present is understood to be the question of the vertical clearance of the bridge. War Department engineers contend that for the benefit of shipping passing under the bridge the clearance should be 200 feet, the same height as that pre- scribed for the Fort Lee Bridge, a short distance farther up the Hudson. The plans now on file call for a vertical clearance of 175 feet. ‘The proposed bridge under present plans would be a two-deck structure, one deck for the exclusive use of rail- way lines. e plans ecall for construction of a union railway station at the New York City end of the" e, which would be utilized by. Baltimore & 'Ohip Rail- road and several other raflroads now serving New York City by ferry service or bytransferring passengers via Hudson River tunnels. B. & O. “Interested Observer.” George M. Schriver, senior vice presi- dent of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road, in a statement today said the at- titude of his company toward the pro- posed bridge across the Hudson River, at New York City, did not go beyond that of an “interested observer.” The announcement, he said, had the approval of Daniel Willard, president of the rai Mr. Schriver's state- ment said the proposed bridge always had seemed to him as an “interesting possibility.” “As I understand it, there is nothing new in the North River Bridge Co. proj- ect,” he said. “It is a consequence, and an interesting development of projects of Mr. Julius Lindenthal, supported by the late Samuel Ray and other notable engineers. As I recall, the late John K. Cowen, at one time president of the Baltimore & Ohio, in co-operation with Mr. Ray and Mr. Lindenthal, secured congressional authority for the brid natingly foreign A Better Concrete for Less Money Maloney Paving Co., Inc. Phone West 1330 8117 K 8t N. The | | | | | 1 | One of these “Hahn-Carltcns™. NEWSPAPER PROBE RECESS INDICATED Commission Is Undecided on| Continuing Inquiry Into I. P. & P. Deals. By the Associated Press Robert E. Healey, chief counscl of the Federal Trade Commission, indi- { cated today that the commission prob- ably would hold no more public hear- ings, at least in the immediate future, in its investigation into the alleged financial interest of the International Paper & Power Co. and its affiliated concerns in a number of newspapers. He declared that the commission had not yet decided whether to resume pub- lic hearings in the inquiry. Meanwhile, commission experts were analyzing the financial interests in the various news- papers of the International concerns, which were placed in the official record of the testimony at Tuesday's hearings of A. R. Graustein of Boston, president of the International Paper & Power Co. Mr. Graustein in a portion of his testimony dealt with the financial rela- tions of his concern and its subsidiaries with several Southern newspapers. ‘The official transcript of the testi- mony showed that Mr. Graustein testi- fied the International had $1,000,000 of the debentures and $600,000 worth of the preferred stock of the Bryan-Thom- ason Newspapers, Inc., and 10,000 shares of common stock of the Chicago Journal, also “owned” by the Bryan- Thomason Newspapers, Inc. “We paid exactly or approximately $1,600,000 in this transaction,” he added. Mr. Graustein testified that the In- ternational “took the securities of the B. T. N. Co. so that we would have back of those debentures and that pre- ferred stock not only the earnings of the Chicago Jéurnal in which we were as- sisting in the purchase, but ‘P" the securities of the other papers.” An exhibit in the official record as evidence in reference to three Southern newspapers, the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle the Spartansburg (S. C.) Herald-Journal and the Columbia (S. C.) Record, said the International Paper & Pgwer Co. and its affiliated concerns had ‘as finan- cial interest (“Willlam) Lavarre and (Harold) Hall—$855,000 in notes se- cured by the stock of these newspa- DAWES TO ELECT TODAY. ‘The Dames of the Loyal Legion, Dis- trict of Columbia Society, will hola its annual meeting and election of of- ficers this afternoon at the home or Mrs. Jerome Lightfoot, 4551 Wisconsin avenue. Mrs. Katherine Alvord, chairman or the nominating committee, has an- nounced the following nomination: For senior vice president, Mrs. Frank B. King; for recorder, Mrs. Adele Jacques; for registrar, Mrs. Alvord; for two members of the council, Mrs. Hugh Connor Smith and Miss Anna Koerper. Fashion’s Newest Summer Ways A spectator’s sports - shoe—fasci- in its strikingness. For women who dress for sports—and merely watch the games. Black and White, Beige and and White, Red and White. $10-50 Womens Shop 1207 F St { cants . for the position authorize CRANE APPOINTED 10 SCHOOL POST {New Business Manager of District System to Assume Duties June 1. ‘The Board of Education at its meet- ing in the Franklin Administration Building yesterday, apointed Jere J. Crane, an architect in the office of \e supervising architect of the Treasury Department, business manager of the District of Columbia publie school system. He will assume his new duties June 1. Mr. Crane, who was one of 80 aj p},i- ¥ Congress during its last session, will have direction over the system's $500.- 000 annual contingent repair fund, wi be controlling officer of the janitor per- sonnel, will maintain personal supe vision over all school buildings and their respective equipment, and will be co-ordination officer for school busi- ness transacted by District Government departments. The new appointee, who was educated at Columbia University, New York, when notified of the appointment late sterday, said he looked on the office ot as a position, but a job.” He in- dicated he would spend most of his time on the job in the field. He is 5: years old and has a daughter, Catherin: a junior at Western High School. T home is at 5829 Chevy Chase parkwa; Chevy Chase, D. C. Mr. Crane has had almost identical experience, technically, with the tasks he will handle in the school system. For resident architect of the Otisville, N. Sanitarium, an institution founded f hospitalization of New York City’s Tu- bercular poor. In that position he de- signed buildings, supervised their con struction and directed the%personnel. he was appointed to the supervising architect’s office. WOMEN T0 NAME OFFICERS TODAY Potomac Preshytery Auxil- jary Wil Conclude Sessions With Election. The women's auxiliary of the Potomac Presbytery today went into its second session which was to be concluded with election of officers. ‘The auxiliary, meeting at the Church of the Pilgrims, Twenty-second and P streets, convened yesterday afternoon, with Mrs. H. C. Briscoe, president, presiding. y At the meeting last night an appeal that Presbyterian _congregations in America give unqualified support to mis- sionary enterprises in Japan was made by Dr. Willlam Buchanan for 38 years missionary to Japan. Dr. Buchanan expressed amazement at the belief which he said. prevailed in some circles that misisonaries were unjustified and that their attempts to spread the gospel among non-Christian countries should be abandoned. Japan, in his opinion, was a nation highly advanced in material lines, but still a curious mixture of light and darkness in religion. Such missions as were already estab- lished, Dr. Buchanan declared, were obtaining excellent results, but were handicapped in their work by an in- sufficient budget. He was introduced by Rev. Albert R. Bird, pastor of the church. SRS AN CLUBS HOLD DINNER. Harriet Locher Addresses Joint Meeting. Three of Washington's prominent women’s luncheon clubs, the Soropti- mists, Zonta and Quota Clubs, met at a dinner at the National Press Club Auditorjum last night. Mrs. Harriet Locher, president of the Soroptimists, presided, and made a brief address. Other speakers were Miss Esther Gude, president, and Dr. Lida Earhart, retiring president of the Zonfa Club, and Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, president. of the Quota Club. Impromptu songs, recitations, short storfes and music completed the pro- gram. Mrs. 29, 1929: sharks.”” quarter billion 3 | Brookhart, Republican of Iowa, had no nine years he was executive head and | He came to Washington in 1906, when | HINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1929.° | Declares His “Job Is Done” as Federal Farm Loan Commissioner. Plans Long Vacation After Serving Government Since Days of War. Laughing at reports that he was re- signing “under fire,” Eugene Meyer, jr., retiring farm loan commissioner, ex- plained today that his “job is don and he plans to take “a long vacation” on his farm in Weschester County, NoY. If the Senate concurs with the Presi- dent, Mr. Meyer's place on the Fed- eral Farm Loan Board will be taken | ‘by Horace Paul Bestor, president of | | the St. Louis Federal Land Bank. Co- incident with the nomination of the Missourian, President Hoover made pub- lic a letter regretting Mr. Meyer's de- cision and praising his record of pub- lic service. As evidence of the fact that recent |attacks made upon him_ by Senator pert in his retirement, Mr. Meyer point- ed out that his letter requesting the President to relieve him of his dutles | was dated April 3, prior to the conven- ing of the present Congress. Brookhart Is Pleased. On learning of the Meyer resigna- | Ition Senator Brookhart characterized it as “the most fortunate thing that has happened in all the history of the fm-nppranve movement in this country,” | |and added that “it indicates the end, |of the system of decoy ducks and | traitors working in the interests of the | financlers.” “My letter to the President speaks for itself,” Mr. Meyer said, as he pre- pared to clear his desk for a successor. “The simple fact is that my job is done and I think I am entitled to a nice, long vacation. The President, | who has been my friends for years, very kindly has consented to let me go, and I appreciate it. “I have no other position in prospect. | T just want to take a good rest on my | farm near Mount Kisco. I have been | looking forward to such a vacation for i@ long time, and it was with reluctance | |that I agreed to serve two years as| !farm loan commissioner. Those two | years will be up on May 10, and then | L am going back to private life. | “I am not bothered about Senator | Brookhart or his attacks on me. I am | satisfled to leave with the good will of | Mr. Hoover, of members of Congress of | both parties and of most of the farm- | ers. The farmers are my friends, no | :mllter what the Senator may say to | the_contrary. “When I came to Washington in 1917 | to assist in war work, I had no idea | that I would be called on to remain here so long. I was 41 years old then, and I am 53 now. I have given some of the best years of my life to public | service. I'm going to take it easy for | a while. Is Silent as to Successor. Mr. Meyer had no cemment to make regarding the President’s choice of a successor, explaining that it would be improper’ for him to say anything in that connection while the Senate had the appointment under consideration. President Hoover's letter to Mr. Meyer follows: “I received your letter of April 3, in| which you tender your resignation as | Federal farm loan commissioner and as a2 member of the Federal Farm. Loan Board. “I intensely regret that your decision is irrevocable and that, in the circum- stances, the duty devolves upon me to accept your resignation. “I particularly wish to take this op- portunity to express the appreciation which all of us hold for the work you have accomplished as farm loan com- missioner during the last two years. I know that you undertook the difficult task of reconstruction at a time when the farm loan system was confronted with a critical situation and public confidence had been impaired. Under your leadership the administration and | supervision of the system has been greatly strengthened, this great institu- | tion of service to the farmers has been placed on a sounder basis and public confidence has been materially im- proved, and will be of lasting benefit to the agricultural interests of the country. “I am aware that after 10 years of public service you unwillingly under- took this additional two years of serv- ice, and I can realize your desire to be relieved. I earnestly wish, lLowever, that you could remain in public service, where your high qualifications and CHARACTER LOANS: The following is an extract from an Edi- torial in the Washington TIMES of April The Morris Plan began making “character loans” in 1910, starting with one company in Norfolk, Virginia. There are now over 100 Morris Plan Banks and Companies, and since 1910 the aggregate amount loaned by all Morris Plan Banks or Companies has reached the amazing aggregate sum of over one and a dollars. Last year alone there were made in all Morris Plan Banks and Companies over 816 thousand loans. There is a Morris Plan. Bank in Washington un- der the supervision of the U. S. Treasury. - MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision § i EYER LAUGHS AT REPORTS HE IS QUITTING UNDER FIRE ENE MEYER, Jr. sense of service so respond to public interest.” Meyer’s Letter of Resignation. Mr. Meyer's letter read: “Nearly two years ago I accepted ap- pointment as a member of the Federal Farm Loan Board and was designated as farm loan commissioner. I under- took the work as you know, at the re- quest of President Coolidge and Secre- tary Mellon in connection with the re- organization of the Farm Loan Board to meet the situation which then con- fronted the Farm Loan System. One of the largest joint stock land banks had Just been placed in the hands of a re- | cetver, and receiverships for two other Jjoint stock land banks were impending; a number of Federal and joint stock land banks were faced with difficult situations; public confidence was im- paired; and the Farm Loan Bureau had not been adequately organized to meet its problems. “Since that time the various units of the Farm Loan Bureau, including the apprafsal, examining and legal divisions, have been virtually reconstructed, and a trained and competent organization has been developed to enable the board properly to discharge the responsibilities devolving upon it. Examinations of the banks and national farm loan associa- tions are being conducted in a thorough and efficient manner; improper and ir- regular practices that had grown up in some of the banks have been elim- inated; sound accounting methods are being followed, and the published state- ments of the condition of the banks are more accurate than ever before; the management of banks faced with dif- ficulties has been strengthened and re organized in co-operation with their boards of directors and they are now in a position to deal effectively with their problems; and the Farm Loan Board's supervision of the system has been made a vital and effective force. Public Confidence Improved. “The progress that has been made in these directions is outlined in detail in the annual report of the board for 1928, which was submitted to Congress on March 2, 1929. While, of course, much remains to be done, as always will be the case in a system of this magnitude, I think I am entirely correct in saying that the task of reconstruction has been accomplished or is actively under way, public_confidence has greatly improved, and the situation in all its details is well in hand. The reorganized board has worked harmoniously and assidu- ously to bring about these results, and it has had the co-operation not only of the banks of the system generally, but also of a large number of public spirited men in various sections of the country. I hope and believe that what has been done during the past two years has materially strengthened the system and will prove to be of permanent value to the agricultural interests which it was created by the Congress to serve. “I have felt it incumbent upon me to continue with the work until the essen- tial requirements of the situation had been effectively met. That point now having been reached, I feel that I am justified in asking that you relieve me of the duties as a member of the board and farm loan commissioner in the near future, and I, therefore, tender my res- ignation to take effect on May 10, 1929, when I shall have completed two years of service in this cepacity.” Maryland Classis to Meet. FREDERICK, Md., May 2 (Special). —Arrangements are being made for the 109th annual session of the Maryland Classis_of the Reformed Church in FOR GARDEN CLUBS Effort Will Be Made to Co- ordinate Work of Groups Throughout Nation. Officers and members of the board of directors of the newly organized “Na- tional Council of State Garden Club Federations” today named committee chairmen to further the work of the councll, at a meeting in the Young Women’s Christian Association Build- ing, Seventeenth and K streets. 'The council was formally organized at a meeting there yesterday. The committe chairmen are: Finance, Charles Lathrop Pack of New York; membership, Mrs. Samuel A. Brown of New York; lectures a lantern slides, Mrs. K. F. Gill of Ohio; pubiicity and printing, Mrs. Fred Bahn- V] Prof. B. conservation, Mrs. Tllinois; _billboards . Oliver C. Iselin, New William and roadsides, M: York, and legislation, Mrs. Crocker, New York. Following the meeting, the council members attended luricheon at the Plerce Mill Teahouse in Rock Creek Park, after which they visited gardens of members of the various garden clubs of the National Capital Federation of | Garden Clubs. An informal dinner at the Cosmos Club tonight at 7 o'clock will conclude the council's two-day program. Knowles Ryerson, director of foreign plant in- troduction, Department of Agriculture, will be the principal speaker. The presidents of the State Federations of Garden Clubs will tell of the progress of the garden club movement in their respective States. The council was formed with a view to co-ordinating the work of the various garden clubs throughout the United States, with a total membership of ap- proximately 40,000. The meetings have been attended by delegates from 19 State federations and by delegates from the National Capital Federation of Gar- den Clubs. An address was delivered by B. Y. Morrison of the Department of Agri- culture at a meeting of delegates and other garden club members in the au- ditorfum of the Interior Department st night. Mr. Morrison spoke on ‘Narcissus.” AIR RACES CAPITAL OFFICIALS Group Expected to Leave Tomorrow for Pittsburgh to Attend Balloon Event. Government officials and aeronautics people, together with officers of the Army and Navy flying services, are ex- pected to leave this city by air and rail tomorrow to attend tne start of the na- tional elimination balloon races a Pitts- burgh on Saturday. Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, chief of the Army Air Corps, left Bolling Field for Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon in an Army observation plane piloted by Lieut. Elwood R. Quesada. Two planes are to leave Bolling Field tomorrow morn- ing for Pittsburgh. s William P. MacCracken, jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, probably will leave this city tonight by rail. A number of Navy officials are expected to go tomorrow. Eleven balloons are expected to ‘start in the races, which are to be held to se- lect American entries in the interna- tional balloon race to be held next Fall starting from St. Louis. The Army has entered three balloons and the Navy two. A third Navy balloon was not en- tered because the Navy, as winner of last year's international balloon classic, is de!elz\o}:enfn the w.ll:' ;hé: year, 1‘;lhe win- ner fof requl rti ite the e.lh'm.nltl%n:.n 5 e Because motion picture films banned iin British Malaya and the Netherland | East Indles were sent to Siam, a film :c-nsorshlp is being established by Siam. CHAIRMEN NAMED - POWER FIRM GIFTS AR DESLRBED iCalifornia Co. Gave $25,000 l Year to Taxpayers’ Group, | Committee Hears. | By the Associated Press | A. Emory Wishon of Oakland, Calf., | former secretary of the Light and Pow- | er Assoctetion, testified today before the | Federal Trade Commission that the as sociation had contributed betwe $25,000 and $30,000 a year to the Cali- fornia Taxpayers’ Association since 1926. Wishon, appearing as a witness in the | commissfon’s investigation into publicity activities of public utilities in Califarnia, | & Power Association to ot | tions. among which was t gation Association. | He said the light and power ory | ization while he was its secretary fr 1823 to 1927 had contributed $500 | month to the irrigation association. He | declared the assoctation had contributed | $25.000 annuaily to the California Elec- trical Bureau, but he did not say what contribution was made to a fourth or- ganization, the California committee on the relations of electricity on agricul- ure. DENIAL ISSUED BY LAVARRE. I | Disclaims Purchasing D: for Paper Co. NEW YORK, May 2 (#)—William Lavarre, owner and publisher of four papers in Georgia and South Carolina, mentloned in the Federal Trade Com=~ mission’s inquiry into International Pa- per Co. financing of publishers, denied yesterday that the company had pur- chased a single share in any of those properties, or that he had acted as agent for the paper company in pur- chasing the newspapers. Asserting also that the “moral quali- ties” of his papers—the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Columbia (S. C.) Record, Spartanburg, (S. C.) Herald and Spar- tanburg (S. C.) Journal—had not been changed and would not be changed by the fiscal relationship, Mr. Lavarre added: 3 “If Mr. Graustein and his Interna- tional Paper Co. have made it possible for me to settle down in this garden spot of America, to expand my efforts by purchasing other similarly distin< guished papers * * * with no other ob- ligation than that we buy our newsprint from his company, I think I owe him a debt of gratitude. I express it here.” “I know very little about power or | power companies,” sald Mr. Lavarre, | “but a power company at its worst would have a hard time beating some of the loudest-yelling newspapers I have seen today in coloring the news, twist- ing the facts, regarding my purchase of four Southern newspapers, to suit thein oWn. purposes. * * * “The International Paper Co. has not purchased a single share of the stock of any of these papers. The statement made in another paper that I purchased these properties as the agent for S. I. P. Co. is also false. I should like to cor= rect, while I am about it, another mis- statement also. The mention of my nanie as that of a stranger to the South is founded on misinformation. * * * “The moral policies of these papers have not changed and wil not change. I hope that their energles will grow greater each year. At their helm are editors and will be editors who stand high in their communities. * * - WOULD REDUCE HOUSE. Cut of 240 Members in 1943 Pro- posed by Crail Measure. The House of Representatives would be reduced in 1943 to 240 members un- der a reapportionment bill introduced yesterday by Representative Crail, Re- publican, California. It would provide that the 240 members be apointed on the basis of the 1942 census, each State' to have at least one Representative and the remainder to be apportioned on a population basis by States. 27§ SR, ies as Agent Bowling has become so popular in | the Philippines that bowling alleys are | springing up like mushrooms in many parts of the islands, women being as much interested in the game as men. U. S. Treasury ' " WASHINGTON, D. C. Grace Reformed Church, this city, Rev. | Chalmers W. Walck, pastor, May 13, 14 | and 15. The classis embraces Frederick, | Washington a dnCarroll Counties and | has a membership of 31 congregations. A president will be elected to succeed Rev. Walter R. Hartzell, former pastor of the Walkersville Church, who re- cently accepted a call to Lykens, Pa., Reformed Church. Chiffon with Alencon “Extremely valuable work is done by big financial institutions that seek to encourage thrift and discourage the loan shark industry, by making what are known as ‘character loans.’ “The borrower, honestly intending to pay and able to Eaa, needing a reasonable amount of money is able to get it on his CHARACTER. “The test of character is a man’s ability to persuade two respectable friends to add their names to his on a note for the money borrowed. He is allowed to pay gradually; is not required to put up any security, stocks or property or anything else. His own character, vouched for by two friends, is his security. “Many make such ‘character loans,’ thus keeping out of the hands of the loan The e n tire blouse of the model sketched is of hand- made Alencon Lace with long sleeves. The skirt is box- pleated with the new irreg- ular fan effect. The ensemble is ¢ om pleted by a short jack- ot of black chif- fon. The re- sultis a charm- ingly graceful effect for after- noon or, eve- ning.