Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1929, Page 5

ans’ Bureau com) tion check had :eenmnfledloh at his former ad- ress. Birra sald that he is a native of Ru-. mania, but has been naturalized through his service in France during the World War, He was severely gassed at this time, for which he was sent to the sanitarium in Pittsburgh. WEST POINT POSTS OPEN. Congress Members Asked to Fill Vacancies in Cadet Roll. Members of Congress from all parts of the country have been requested hy the War Department to nominate can- . didates for admission to the West Point Alvin E. Dodd, assistant to the presi- | Military Academy June.1, 1930, subject dent, in charge of all retail operations | to qualiification at the entrance exami: of Sears, Roebuck & Co., who for many | nation in March next. The quota of years lived in Washington, will arrive | the District of Columbia is filled, but | 4 | here on Wednesday morning for the.| there are vacancles to be filled by Sen- movement of this year's crop. | . | opening of the retail department store | ators Tydl and Goldsborough of “The effect of the secondary loan by ! . | of the company here. | Maryland and by Senator Swanson and the Federal Farm Board,” the an- 3 q | Mr. Dodd was the first manager of | Representatives from the fourth and nouncement continued, “will be to per- | - . the domestic distribution department of | sixth districts of Virginia. | mit the co-operative association to make | - the Chamber of Commerce of the Unit- o final settlement with the member grow- s ed States and carrled the distribution Record Made in Canal Tolls. er when the latter desires to sell his| < prograg of the national chamber from cotton, without forcing that cotton on | a small beginning to a large enterprise, | BALBOA, Panama Canal Zone, to the market at a time when buyers directing two national conferences of | August 19 ().—During the first fort- may already be oversupplied. business men and inaugurating the first | night of August 261 vessels passed “From the Federal intermediate credit |/ census of retail and wholesale trade, through the canal and paid $1,117,032 banks and the Federal Farm Board the > The Nation-wide census of distribution | in tolls. The daily average of $74,468 association will receive advances equal | X | recently authorized by Congress is the | was larger than for any similar period to 90 per cent of the fixed value. To result, largely, of Mr. Dodd’s energy | in the last four months. this amount the cotton associations will and initiative in following ou‘z -Ps add 10 per cent from their own capital | gestion made e reserve, will pay in full the grower who :;::LHWV", then Secretary ol - 15 in distress and must have morley and | 3 ! i | will at the same time be able to mer- In covuvfl-llu-:l \\dllth 41“: Bureau ?l‘ chandise the cotton in an orderly fash- | Census, Mr. Dod A capen don as the spinning mills of the world Tx‘?"fi: '::‘lzlesw}rl‘:;nllpl‘y.i{.;- s 2 s Chicago. “rne success ot inis. eirore | | Quick Service Result of Conferences. lead to the widespread demand for a At This Reliable Lumber House This decision was reached, the board | natfonal census of business, which will Lumber Millwerk #aid, as a result of a number of con- . | be taken in 1930, covering retail and Hardware ferences with officials of the American| Upper: Mrs. W. Charle | wholesale trade. int Cotton Growers' Exchange. | of the milllonare Syracuse, N. ¥ man. | Other visitors at the opening of the | “These associations,” the board an- ufacturer, who was killed with her COmpany's retail department store here | Il Ore Gl houncement said, “are now able to ob- husband and the pilot of their speed- | Will be J. M. Barker, regional manager | A tain loans from the Federal intermedi- boat when it crashed into the pleasure Of the company for the Philadelphia | J. Frank Kelly, Inc. 2101 Georgia Av. N. 1388 BOARD 70 MAKE COTTON ADVANCES Agreement to, Aid Co-opera- | tives Move Crops Is Tentative. Sears, Roebuck & Co. Official Won Fame by Work at' | National C. of C. P the Associated Press. The Federal Farm Board announced foday it had tentatively agreed to make *certain financial advances” to cotton | eo-operative associations to assist in the L OW Prices N Highest Quality ate credit banks to the amount of 65 boat, Thousand Islands, in the St. | region, and H. W. Kingsley, reglonal per cent of the value of the cotton. Lawvence River, near Alexandria Bay, | fetail manager for the company. These Responsibility Use Yellow Cabs and Black and White Cabs Owned and Operated by Brown Bros. “The Federal Farm Board proposes| —Lower: W. Charles Lipe. |three men will make up the official | to loan an additional 25 per cent—a| —_Associated Press Photos, Party to attend the opening, at 9 o'clock total of 90 per cent for the two Govern- =5 on Wedne:day moring. | ment_agencies—on cotton on which a | ; s i | Growers will be 3 cents per pound, Sefinite value has been fixed by hedging | more than double the amount advanced VETER A Is FlNED o Fethended y last year. | N it Ly Jolume “af ‘advances of | “Tie ‘noard! satd ithe ‘lncrease’ was| s sort to be made by the Federal gifieq by the ‘greatly improved B ol be Ltulted onlv by'the | siatistica) “position” of ‘the grape in- | ON DRUNK CHARGE actual requirements of the cotton €o-!gystry and added that since 90 per cent | ;’,‘,"{"m" "““‘;“"’]""d P ":m's""“‘“ of the grapes grown in the United | — Al le sum involve or year's | = . marketing operations will Tun some- | piae fre Produced in Callfornia, the Judge Suspends $500 or Six-Month erep 0cteen $5,000000 and $10,- |5 stabilizing influence on the price of | The board also_announced today it | o E35¢% ETOwn, for, commerclal pur- | had arranged a loan of $9.000.000 to = | carry out its objective in stabilizing' the Program Explained. | California fresh grape and raisin in- “The entire program outlined,” the X | dustry. statement said, “has been put into| Michael Birra, World War veteran, This loan, the first important ad- effect to cover the immediate neces- | now on leave from a sanitarium in vance made from the farm relief re- sities and the movement of this year's | Pittsburgh, was fined $25 on a charge volving fund. was arranged in_conjunc- | crop, and the board is continuing its | of intoxication and ordered to serve tion with a financial group of California. | investigation of the entire industry | six months or pay $500 on a charge of It will be extended to the Sun-Maid with reference to its requirements for threats brought against him by Mrs. Raisin Growers of California, one of 'a permanent program Emma K. Alderson, 700 block of Tenth the largest co-operatives, and the| Decision of the board was reached street, by Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Federal Fruit Stabilization Corporation, | after a full month of conferences with | Police Court this morning. The judge which was created recently to help out California raisin _and grape growers | suspended the sentence in the second the grape industry. which included Henry M. Robinson, | case. The farm board has dipped into its Los Angeles banker and close friend of | Mrs. Alderson testified that Birra 500,000,000 fund only once before, ! President Hoover. threatened three or four times to kill | Florida fruit growers recelving $300,000| In addition to Mr. Robinson, those her and that she was forced to jump , to aid in meeting restrictions imposed who participated in’ the negotiations ' out of a window 15 feet from the to prevent the spread of the Mediter- | included: J. F. Nagle, general manager | ground to escape, as he tried to break ranean fly. of the California_Fruit Exchange of down the door of her bedroom, where EeyARS n— | Sacramento; A. J. Mount, executive she was hiding from him. G "; “‘;";e $ ;, . 0% i e pmsldenht of tnie Bnn;{ n;lr l(snly; ‘Amr: escnpmxh Irox: the );'ouse. she ne-half of e loan to the California Harry Creech, president of the Sun- | told the court that she notifled a - Industry will be advanced by the board Maid Raisin Growers of Fresno: Lloyd | licoman, but that the man had dis. | n°t "‘dd'g et v Xk and the other half jointly by the Fed- | S. Tenny, president of the California | appeared when she returned to the interesticuarges: eral Intermediate Credit Bank of Berke- | Fruit Stabilization Corporation of San house with the officer. Birra was a Peter Grogan & Sons Co. ley, the Security-First National Bank of | Franci: Donald Conn, president of | rested later and charged with threat: 9, Los Angeles, the Bank of Italy, the | the California Vineyardists' Association ' and as he was in a drunken condition ]&OGAN s National Trust & Savings Association | of San Francisco: T. T. C. Gregory of | at the time of his arrest a charge of in- and the Anglo-London and Paris Na- San Francisco; Paul B ommis- | toxication also was placed against him, 817-823 Scventh SLN.W. “Homefurnishers Since 1866 Closgd Saturday, July and August Sentence in Threat CREDIT Fveryone can afford CREDIT here—because our prices are tional Bank of San Francisco. | sioner of the Federal Farm Loan| Birra in one part of his testimony. An explantory statement issued by | Board, and W. D. El sident of | denied that he returned to the house on | the board said the basic rate of adva the Federal Inter | the night in question, but later said | 1 | that he went there to see if a Veter: 1845 4th St. N.| These Prices Prevail in Washington Stores FANCY FREESTONE PEACHES We are offering you this week from the Loudoun Orchard Co., at Leesburg, Va., the finest quality Freestone Elberta Peaches. Dry al weather has caused the Peach crop in the East | to mature about two weeks early this year. for canning and preserving as much as possible : this week.- You will find the quality of these Blue ? Ridge Peaches exceptionally fine; price reason- l \ i We would suggest that you supply your wants ’ | able, taking quality into consideration. } Special This Week! An Exceptional Value In Canned Peas! SILVER "PIGGLY WIGGLY | | 1 | | Office and Warehouse Prices Prevail BRAND PEAS We are quoting a special low price for this weck on Silver Brand Peas. 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