Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1931, Page 32

(NDIA HELD MARKET OF UNUSUAL WORTH frwin - Gandhi Agreement Heralded as Opening Up Op- portunity to Americans. By Oable to The Star. PARIS, March 14.—“The United States hasn't realized the enormous trade opportunities that will follow the cificatipn of India under the new rwin-Gandhi agreement. The open- ing up and development of India may ‘well provide prosperity during the next 50 years for the whole civilized world, but principally for America.” lese assertions were made to this correspondent, yesterday by an English business man recently returned from India, who added: “American finarclers and manufacturers who have been striving for years to open the markets of Russia and China will find that India offers a more fertile fleld, with far greater security and much more im- mediate results.” Good Roads Numerous. ‘The informant drew a fantastic pic- ture of the opportunties that India of- fers American: capital and manufac- turers. With a vast, varied territory end 320,000,000 inhabitants, only the fring. has as yet been touched by civil- izing influences, he said. Rallways are few and purely strategic, but good roads are numerous, particularly in the na- tive states, and future transportation ‘will be almost entirely by motor, offer- ing a market for scores of American cars annually. He: pictured many huge areas with fertile ground and a population will- ing to work, now lying idle through drought, although ter is available by boring and would transform this desert into a veritable garden. American en- gineers will be needed to sink wells and build dams to realize irrigation projects, and American manufacturers to supply * the necessary pumps and machiner: “Exaggeration should be avoided, the intormant continued, “but I wil be willing to hazard a guess that there are_already more electric refrigerators in India than in all Euroue; yet the surface of the market has hardly been scratched. Such appliances, which are regarded as a luxury in temperate cli- mates, are & prime necessity in India, and millions will be sold as soon as the Indians can possibly afford them. Farmers Big Factor. “Textiles, shoes, iron pipe, sanitary appliances, electrical goods, tools, agri- cultural implements of all kinds and machinery will go to India by ship- Joads in the wake of credits for recla- mation and development. Fear that agricultural development there might accentuate the difficulties of farmers in other countries is discounted be- cause of India’s enormous capacity for home consumption, now unsatisfied. “Contrary to common belief,” he concluded, “India is far from over- fiapuhbed. and the population would crease sharply with an increased food supply, and the result would be con- stantly increasing demands for for- eign manufactures.” (Copyright, 1931.) ONE MAN MISSING AS LINER HITS TUG Four Sailors Taken to Hospital After Crash in River Near New York. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 14.—One man ‘was missing and -four were in hospitals last night after the Mutual Towing Line tug Britannia and the American Dia- mond Line steamer Coahoma County, from Rotterdam, crashed in the North River. Raymond Bristoe, an oiler on the tug, ‘was believed drowned, while the re- mainder of the seven-man crew were rescued. The four men in the hospitals ‘were suffering from submersion. Capt. August Keen of the Britannia said he could not account for the mis- hap which sank his vessel. He said the tug was struck squarely on the stern and went down immediately. Bristoe was on the forward deck when the crash and has not been seen since. Protozoa Convert Sewage Into Pure Water for Drinking Chemists Say Minute Ani- mals Eat Bacteria, Then Die Themselves. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 14—A “dis- covery of far-reaching importance” in sawage disposal was described to the New York section of the American Chemical Society last night by Dr. John Arthur Wilson of Milwaukee. It converts sewage into two useful substances, & fertilizer, selling at $20 a ton, and water, which Dr. Thomas sald is purer than the drinking water of many cities.” The work is done in a new way, by protozoa, the smallest animals in exist- ence. They are cigar-shaped single- celled creatures, the first rung of life above bacteria. The protozoa eat the bacteria, which are the poisons, the real waste in sewage. When all the bacteria are eaten, the protozoa die. Their bodies settle and are ground into a fertilizer rich in nitrogen amd phosphoric acid. These protozoa are cheap workmen, requiring only the right living conditions, which consist princi- pally of a supply of oxygen while they eat. They comprise many different races, two of the principal ones being, respectively, paramecia and vorticella. ‘There is nothing theoretical about their work. Dr. Thomas exhibited pic- tures of them in a great purification plant in Milwaukee, said to be the most efficient of its kind in the world. One photo showed the cigar-shaped half- transparent creatures full of dark dots, which were the eaten bacteria. Dr. Thomas spoke in response to presentation to him of the William H. ‘Nichols medal, one of the highest honors of chemistry. CER PLANE LINE AND PORT Washington-Hoover Airport and “Nypwac” Company Reach Operating Agreement. An operating agreement between ‘Washington-Hoover Airport and the New York, Philadelphia & Washington Airways Corporation, operating hourly air passenger service between the Cap- ital and New York, which is intended to cut down the growing passenger line competition of Eastern Air Transport, was announced yesterday. Under the new. agreement, the “Nypwac” line will have a voice in de- termining which lines shall be permitted to_use the local air terminal, now the base for four daily air transport lines. Under the new agreement, Eastern Air Transport will not be permitted to increase its present passenger schedules between the National Capital and New York as long as it continues to use ‘Washington-Hoover Airport, it was an- nounced. The Eastern Air Transport system, operating airmail-passenger service between New York and Miami, Fla., now flies two round trips a day between this city and New York with 18-passenger planes and had planned to increase this service to six round trips a day. The agreement will not prevent the transfer of night airmail operations from Bolling Field to Washington- Hoover Airport, however, it was an- nounced. The agreement will not affect pas- senger lines which do not compete with the “Nypwac” line. Pennsylvania air- lines, operating between the Capital and Cleveland, is planning expansion of its schedules. The fourth line is the Dixie Flying Service line to Charlottesville, Va. In ancient times salt was a compara- tively scarce commodity, frequently it was placed on the table in one dish for everybody, and just as a dinner guest of today would feel that he was having a run of bad luck if he broke a costly plate, so would one of the ancients feel about accidentally spilling salt. 2001 16th Street Three Rooms, Kitchen and Bath Electrical Refrigeration Reasonable Rentals "SAYS MARATHON DANCERS SWOON FOR EXCITEMENT| ¥Fall on Purpose to Entertain Pa- | trons, Nurse Testifies at In- junction Hearing. By the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, March 14—It may not be worth while to cry if you happen to see a lad or a lassie tumble into a dead ::oon while dancing in a dance Mara- on. Officials of a Marathon brought this | out at a hearing yesterday before a anaster in chancery, in which they are weeking to enjoin the city authorities from putting a stop to the dance. Miss Edith Abbott, a nurse hired to watch the dancers, was asked if the partici- pants did not give away to exhaustion. Bhe replied: “Why, thany of those falls are merely simulated to entertain the patrons and to provide excitement. The contest- ants, after such swoons, are often car- | ried behind the scene, where they give way to side-splitting laughter.” AR AN - THE IODENT CLUB of the Alr with Big Brother Bob Emery Over N. B. C. Network Station WRC — 7:00 P.M. A story of William Shak and Gueen Elizabeth -+ The amous Queen. Everyone should hear s absorbing, edueational story tonight. 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