Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1930, Page 5

LEGGE PROPOSES WHEAT EMBARGO Would Bar Imports if World Price Continues to Slump, He Explains. ing of a tempora?y embargo on wheat importations if world prices con- “inue to siump below comestic quota- iions to a point permitting imports of “'anadian wheat was suggested to mem- Yers of the Senat> Committee on Agri- ¢alture yesterday by Chalrman Legge of the Farm Board. In making public Mr. Legge's pro- l, Senator Capper of Kansas, epublican member of the committee, offered to sponsor legislation along the Ene suggested by the Farm Board head if Legge’s fears of sbriously competitive imports materialize. stting up of a temporary embargo would app:ar to be justifiable, accord- ing to Mr. Legge, “in view of the fact that we will have & burdensome surplus without importing” any wheat. The embargo, Capper pointed out, @ould probably be obtained more quickly #han an increase in the tariff, now 42 #ents a bushel. A study would first be Pequired of the Tariff Commission be- fore it could make recommendations. Mefore the Christmas recess ends, Cadper expects to confer with Legg:. efly reviewing the world ‘wheat situation, Legge said the Liverpool mar- ket on Tuesday had closed at 60%, ‘Hile the close at Chicago was 76 cents, and the spread between Chicago and W'nnipeg was from 26 to 28 cents per | buzhel. ith domestic millers ready to pay 8 bremium on high quality Manitoba wheat, the chairman feared any fur- ther price decrease in the world mar- « kst “will probably result in wheat be- imported from Canada.” At the same time, Representative Summers, Republican, Washington, made it known that he had written to the Tariff Commission urging it “to téke action looking to the immediate iffcrease of the duty up to 63 cents| per bushel, which is permissible under | the flexible provision of the tariff law without congressional action. “The need for immediate action can- not be overemphasized in view of the fact that wheat was imported into this country in 1923 and 1925 when the differential was less thaa at the pres- ent time.” JACKSON WILL RETIRE * AS TEACHER DECEMBER 1 Former Dunbar Principal Has Been ‘With Public School System for 38 Years. ‘W. T. Sherman Jackson, former principal of the Dunbar High School, will retire from his active teaching po- sition December 31, following 38 years’ service in the public school system. A graduate of Amherst College in 1892, Mr. Jackson entered the school system that year as a teacher of math- ematics at the Dunbar High School, then located in the old M Street High School Building. In 1897 he obtained the degree of master of arts from Am- herst. The previous year he took the degree of bachelor of social sciences at the Catholic University hLere. He was principal of the Dunbar High School from 1906 to 1909. He later was an or- canizer and head of the business practice department at Dunbar, a unit which has become the present Car- This latest plece of Fire Department apparatus, acquired by the District fo render quick aid in emergencies, has been delivered here and shortly is expected to make its first run, fitted with a wide variety of life saving equipment. It has been assigned to Fire Rescue Squad No. 1. Left to right are Lieut. K. W. Weston, Stanley Horner, Fire Chief George S. Watson and O. E. Fern, superinfendent of the Fire Department machine shop. —Star Staff Photo. LOW STOCKS POINT 10 TRADE UPTURN People Have Bought More Than Has Been Produced, Says Economist. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 25.—Dr. Ben- jamin M. Anderson, jr.. economist of the Chase National Bank, says in a year-end statement prepared for the Associated Press, that stocks of goods are running very low, which insures an eventual marked upturn in business. “The year 1930 began with a relatively mild business depression, which, inter- rupted by a feeble rally in April, has been pra%fssxve through the year,” he e most decisive downward movement came in July. Since June the public has been buying more than jobbers and retailers have been buying and more than factories have been pro- ducing. “Stocks of finished goods are running very low. This insures a marked up- turn in business (which I cannot date) from present low levels, despite the | adverse fundamentals, the worst of which is to be found in our export trade situation. 3 ur exports are caught in a vise between high protective tariffs <n the one hand and the heavy debts of the | outside world to us on the other. “The commercial credit situation is very strong. Most important businesses alv! limited debt and strong cash posi- on.” LETTERS BRING SUIT ‘Wife Alleges Husband Wrote Rival Week After Wedding. Alleging that her husband within one week of their marriage last August car- ried on a clandestine correspondence withanother woman, receiving letters postmarked Boston, Mass.,, and ending Fake Address Just Happens to Be That of the White House By the Assotiated Press. | CHICAGO, December 25— | | Charged with keeping $149 given him by a lodge brother to pay | | taxes, Thomas Novotny, 47, testi- fied at his trial yesterday that the | | Washington headquarters of the | | Slavic Union Alliance of America, which he heads, was 1604 Penn- sylvania avenue. That address happens to be the White House. Well, to avoid redundancy, the jury took an hour and a half to convict Mr. Novotny and recom- mended him to the address of Twenty-sixth - street: and Cali- fornia avenue, Chicago, which is the county jail. SOUTH AMERICAN EXHIBIT | TO TRACE INDEPENDENCE | | Georgetown University Will Show | Historical Documents on *Saturday Evening. An exhibition of historical documents relating to the wars of independence in South America will be presented under auspices of Georgetown University from 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Dec:mber 23, at | the Healy Bullding, Thirty-seventh and | O streets. The exhibit has been arranged by Dr. | George M. Corbacho, Peruvian historian {and former member of the Peruvian| Congress, in honor of the liberators Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin. | A number of invitations have been 15-[ sued through the Peruvian Ambassador. HOMER L. KITT CO. ... ADVERTISING HELD CONTINUOUS NEED Leading Space Users Tell Ne- cessity of Publicity Dur- ing Depression. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 25.—Faith in the success of continued [ through periods of boom and depres- | sion is expressed by several leading ad- vertisers in the current issue of Printers Ink, advertising publication. “What is the real value of continued | advertising effort?” the publication | asked. | J. L. Johnson, president of the Lam- bert Pharmacal Co., rcplied: “Our opinion of the importance of continuity | of advertising effort is shown by the 10-year record of cur advertising ex- | penditures.” | J. A. Zehntbauer. president of the Jantzen Knitting Mills, Inc., answered: | “Our experience is thoroughly con- | vincing as to the necessity of adver- tising continuity. * * * In increasing our advertising ‘outlay for 1931 we be- lieve that we are sowing the seed of | future volume and profits.” | Louis M. Wheelock, vice president, Stephen F. Whitman & Son, sajd: believe in advertising all the time. * * Advertising just now is an expressicn of confidence in one’s product and the tuture of America.” | C. R. Palmer, president of Cluett, | Peabody & Co, Inc, said: “In my | opinion the one’sure way to make na- | tional advertising count is to see that it is continuous.” k GRANTED DIVORCE Hero of Countless Six-Gun Duels Was Charged With Cruelty. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 25.—Tom Mix of the westerns is ?llylnx a lone hand again. The hero of countless six~ gun duels is celebrating Christmas to- day in the fashion of a bachelorhood as a result of a divorce obtained yesterday by_Mrs. Victoria Forde Mix. It's the second time this hero of the films has been restored to singleness since first taking the marriage vows. Mrs. Olive Stokes Mix divorced him in 1917. Both wives charged cruelty. The wife who divorced him yesterday won custody of 9-year-old Tomasina Mix and a property settlement. Half of her Summer vacations will be spent by Tomasina with her father, through an agreement approved by the court. The film cowboy, who had filed a gen- eral denial of the charges set forth by his second wife, did not appear in court yesterday. Among other things laid to him by the second Mrs. Mix was an legation that Mix had twirled a shooter in a menacing manner while engaged in dispute with his wife. Unexplained absences from home also were charged against him. “I lost nine pounds during one of his absences,” Mrs. Mix charged. Striking agricultural workers in Ca- nete, Peru, recently won small wage in- creases. For the 33rd Year We Wish Our Ftiends and Patrons d Yery Merry Christmas - and a Happy and Prosperous New Year Jos. A. Wilner & Co. Custom Tallors Since 1897 Cor. 8th & G Sts. MERCHANTS OF MUSIC | Special Prices! Special Terms! THE AVENUB AT SEVENTH You Expected Us to Offer an After-Christmas SALE —but you did not expect values like these! SAKS 2-TROUSER SUITS! OVERCOATS! TOPCOATS! dozo High School, -occupying the old with “love and Kisses,” Mrs. Al 1l o4 oo rs. Alna Allen. 1626 Nineteenth street, yesterday filed | a suit for a limited divorce {rom Albert | D. 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