Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1930, Page 4

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The Secretary of Agriculture depart- ed from his prepared address to make 1\a vigorous defense of the Federal Farm Board. “A large school of thought holds that | the Federal Farm Board is & faflure,” he said. “I understand the Board of Trade of Dallas, Tex., has raised $100,- 000 to prove it is a failure. “If this is true, the board is $100,000 worth of success. Even as only an ex- officio memb-r of the Farm Board, I am vainly, inordinately proud of the enemies we have made.” Secretary Hyde said the efforts of the Farm Board in the stabilization of wheat, in ftself, justified th> board's existence. At a ‘time, he continued, | when all the commodity markets of America were on a down hill trend | featured by bear drives, the Farm Board went into the wheat market and f ed panic selling. eir efforts held up the price, not only of wheat, but resulted in the stabilization of the pric: of corn and all other grains and cotton. The securities market, he added, took on a new tone. “If the Farm Board never does any- thing else, that one thing has justified its_existence.” The Secretary was positive in his diagnosis of the aliment of agriculture. “Overproduction and the need for ad- Justing production to,demand both in quelity and quantit§,” “overshadow all other farm ailments. He pointed out that many other indus- tries were suffering from the same disease, Cites Cause of Depression. ‘The gradual return of money to its pre-war value rather than over produc- tion was given as the primary cause of present depressed conditions by Prof. G. F. Warren of Cornell University. “The physical quantity of all xinds of products in the United States in- creased 61 per cent in the 15 years be- fore the World War,” Prof. Warren said, “and approximately this rate of years. “The acres of cotton in the United States increased very rapidly since the war, owing to the fact that cotton has been relatively high in price, but the acreage of food and feed crops de- creased 1 per cent from 1919 to 1929. “In the last 10 years wheat has averaged 14.2 bushels per acre in the United States. In the previous 10 years, the average yleld was 14.6 busheis per acre. Corn yields per acre have in- creased slightly and oat yields have de- clined slightly. “For 1930 the Department of Agri- culture estimates that the yield per acre of the 17 principal crops is 5 per cent less than the 10-year average. Prices of food crops have declined from an index of 159 in August, 1929, to an index of 120 in October of this year.” Discussing the wheat situation, Prof, Warren said that the purchasing power of wheat is lower than it has been since 1797, with the single exception of the year 1820, when the purchasing power of wheat in New York City—that is, its price compared with other commodi- ties—was 49. “In all previous cases,” he said, “the {low wheat price was preceded by and followed by the normal price. In the | next 10 years wheat will probably have | its normal relationship to commodity prices. Wheat 1s stable in comparison with the prices of other commodities and promises to remain so. Russia Short of Machinery. “The relatively small amount of wheat that is coming out of Russia at the present time has generally been taken to indicate that there was a flood of | wheat for sale or that the Russians | were trying to make war on the other | countries. The real indication is that after many yvears of war and turmoll Russia is extremely short of mflchmtrl and that it rained in Russia this yeag. Prof. Warren said that if wholesalé’ prices of all commodities remained stable, wages would rise at about the same rate that the output per worker increased. “In the 35 years before the war,” he sald, “the production per worker in- creased about 62 per cent and the pur- chasing power- of wages increased 57 - _Warren expressed the opinion | that the low production of gold u?d the high demend for it would result in further declines in the general price level. 'FOUR GET $50,000 IN BANK HOLD.UP Escape in Auto After Hour Spent in Raid With 25 or 30 Captive. By the Associated Press. | KANSAS CITY, December 10.—Four robbers held up the Interstate Na- | tional Bank in the Live Stock Exchange | Building here today and made off with currency estimated between $50,000 and | 355.200 They were well dressed and appear | to be between 30 and 40 years o e The four were in charge of the bank for more than an hour, during which no alarm was given. The bank is on the second floor of the Live Stock Ex- change, near the Missouri-Kansas State line in the packing house and stock- | yards district. | Austin Young, colored porter, was | followed into the bank by a man who | | produced a pistol and ordered him to | | proceed with his dusting. B. Moore, assistant cashier, was | the next employe to arrive. By then another robber had entered, and there was one robber on each side of the door. Moore was covered with a pistol. “We've been watching two or three weeks to see how this bank operates,” one robber told Moore, “and we know you're the man who opens the vault Get over there and open it or we'll fill you full of lead.” H Moore opened the outer vault door. | | The robbers appeared to understand the | time lock prevented opening of the in- side door and awaited the arrival of the other employes. Moore was es- corted to a corner and told to make himself comfortable. “But keep away from the windows,” & robber said. One by one the other arrivals were held similarly. The quartet, unmasked, took charge of the bank when the porter arrived td open the place. Officers and emploves arriving for work were greeted with | drawn pistols and held in a group until | the time lock on the vault permitted its_opening. Before the vault could be opened there were 25 or 30 persons in the group covered by the robbers’ ‘The four mn’ escaped in & THE k. oo iNG STAR, WASHINGION, LAST TRIBUTE TO Mine workers throughout Hlinois and from the coal fields of other States gathered at Mount Olive, tribute to Mary “Mother” Jones, champi: on of the working man. body Iay in state amid many floral offerings, on the day Before the funeral. DOAK 10 SEEK END OF TEXTILE STRIKE Arbitration Plan of New La- bor Secretary—Seeks Five- Day Week. A firm believer in arbitration as a means of settling labor disputes, Wil- liam N. Doak, new Secretary of Labor. will make it one of his first official duties to seek an early end to the textile strike in Danville, Va. Another major objective to which he will bend his efforts, he revealed, is establishment of the five-day week for the Nation’s workers. While he can do nothing more to- ward attainment of -the shorter week than recommend it to Congress, he explained on taking office late yester- day, he plans & more direct method of attack on the labor troubles down in Virginia. Authorized by law to act as mediator in labor disputes and to name con- cillators, Secretary Doak “at the first opportunity” will use his good offices toward a prompt and peaceful settle- ment of the Danville controversy. n my opinion” the Becretary said in a formal statement to the press, there never was or will there be any labor dispute that could not or cannot be settied through negotiation without resort to conflict, that is if the parties at interest will reason together and approach their problems in the proper spirit. This conviction is based on more than 20 years' experience as & representative of employes, without hav- ing actually to engage in labor warfare.” As for the five-day week, Secretary Doak disclosed that he had cticed it in his rail brotherhood office here for a number of years. Little is ac- complished by having employes work half a day Saturday, therefore he found it advisable to let them off the entire day. However, he pointed out, the matter of a five-day week is one for Congregs to consider and work out, in 8o far as | hours of Government employes are con- cerned, at least. Congress, incidentally, already has moved to bring about & five-day week for Federal workers. A bill })I’OM Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massa- chusetts would enforce the shorter week in Government departments, a8 a means of _relieving unemployment. The Gift the Whole Family Will Enjoy Bessa— A NEW IMPORTED Roll Film Camera he said, and | 102 BISHOP IS CHARGED WITH INCITING Ri0T Lindsey’s Defense to Be Con- | tention That Churchman Caused Trouble. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 10.—Ben B. | Lindsey plans to heap upon Bishop Willlam T. Manning the blame for last | SBunday’s disturbance when he goes to | trial Friday. | Lindsey disclosed today that in de- | fending himself on a disorderly conduct | charge he would contend that th» | bishop incited a riot in the Cathedral of | St. John the Divine. |~ “Bishop Manning,” he said, “willtully | and without cause provoked a breach of | the peace by slandering me in the pul- | pit and trying to make his clergy black and me blacker. | “Bishop Manning's false statement about me and what I stand for not only incited me to do what I did but | it inflamed the mob spirit in his own congregation, o that I was very for- tunate to escape the honor of being burned at the stake or lynched at the cathedral.” The bishop declined to comment on this line of defense or to say whether he would be represented by counsel at the trial, to which he has been sub- poenaed as a witness for the defense. The split among Episcopal clergymen over the controversy opened wider as the Rev. Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, pro- fessor of religion at Columbia Univer- sity, resigned from the New York Churchmen’s Association, Dr. Bell sald that the association was engaged in ‘“bishop-baiting” and that Lindsey’s views were “notoriously un- scientific, exaggerated and in the worst sense of the word, journalistic.” S S aie! Kidnaping Futile, Baby Returned. CHICAGO, December 10 (#).—Ki naped from his bath, Stanley Augus- tiniak, jr, might have been but wasn't the least bit embarrassed yesterday. He |18 only 15 months old. The kidnaper, the police sald, was Stanley's father, who took the child in an_effort to ef- fect a reconciliation with Stanley's lmolh?r. failing which he sent the baby | back last night, fully clothed. 00 The Lowest Priced Camera Ever Fitted with a F 7.7 Lens It is fitted with the !:;)erlnr Voigtlander F 7.7 astigmat lens in a new novel focusing mount group lens adjuster makes focusin time this lens has ever been offered Light-weight metal body—nicke! M. 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PHILADELPHIA, December 10.—A central agency through which the vari- ous organizations in the building in- | dustry could co-ordinate their problems was advocated last night by Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont in ad- dressing the Philadelphia Building Con- gress. “In the hands of business men,” Sec- retary Lamont said, “such a reorgani- zation could be brought about without destroying any existing useful agency. “The construction industry is some- — times accused of being inefficient. If it is, 1t will remain so as long as the in- dustry, through federation or joint ac- tion, fails to confer and adjust differ- ences and to fron out probiems in con- ferences together. Without unified con- trol, other methods must be devised to make the industry more efficlent.” G Street at Eleventh ENENERERE Complete side your armchair. You quality of tone—at adaptability in the home! PALAIS ROYAL—TFifth Floor | Behind | Rome, received money from the Oustric | mission. DECEMBER 10, 1930. BANK ROW AFFECTS CABINET DEADLOCK Paris Papers Play Scandal! Features as Laval Tries to Form Regime. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 10.— Uneasiness | and uncertainty as to what may de- | fluencing the course of events in the | efforts of Plerre Laval to form a new | cabinet, but the Senator seemed deter- | mined to form a government no matter | what happened. ‘Today he continued to stand by his “old friend,” Andre Tardleu, despite the opposition of the radical Socialists, his list of cabinet members before to- | morTow. 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The newspaper Midl today sum- marized the situation by alleging that opposition groups in both houses are engaged 'in & “merciless war’ against | Tardieu on the ground that Tardleu protected Perst in the Oustric affair. There is beginning to be some talk of dissolution of Parliament as the only way out of the deadlock, but this step has not been taken during the life of | the third republic and few politicians would suj t it. | M. Luvz']m:hndv has consulted about 40 Senators and Deputies in his efforts | to bulld & cabinet. 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