Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1931, Page 2

TOLL FIGHT FORCES BRIDGE BLOCKADE Free Bridge Closed by Texas, While Oklahoma Blocks- Pay Structure. By the Associated Press. DENISON, Tex., July 18.—A dusty detour, en absent judge and a tractor | were the principal factors of interest in | e “war of the bridges” today along the Red River front separating Oklahoma | and Texas. | Hundreds of travelers used a detour| via Preston and Madill over a free bridge there while the question of whether a free bridge newly built or a toll bridge should be used between this city and Durant, Okla., remained un- answered The toll bridge was open on the Texas side, but blocaced on the Oklahoma the free bridge was open at the Okla homa end, but barricaded and guarded by Texas Rangers on this side of the River. Judge Out of Office. Officials of the Red River Bridge Co., operators of the toll span here, were expected to continue their search for District Judge Porter Newman, at Du- rant, who was reported “out of his| office” all yesterday afternoon, while they sought to remove by court action the blocace placed by Oklahoma high- way employes. The tractor was called by the high- way crews when they learned they could not “tear up the roadbed” to the toll bridge in accordance with orders of Gov. W. H. Murray of Oklahoma without more powerful equipment than was available Gov. Murray ordered the free bridge thrown open to travel Thursday in de- fiance of a Federal court order in Houston, Tex., which had tangled plans for a joint opening July 1. Gov. Ross Sterling of Texas barricaded the Texas approach of the free bridge. Other Bridge Open. Trafic moved freely over & new bridge between Ringgold and Terral, paralleling a toll bridge. This bridge was opened Thursday. Another free bridge, between Gainesville and Mariet- ta, remained inaccessible because the ‘Texas approach was not completed. Development of the situation followed s long campaign to rid the two States of the toll bridges. Construction of the free bridges came after purchase of the pay spans proved not feasible. In Houston the Federal court sult pending would restrain the Texas au- thorities from opening the Denison- | Durant structure at this end until con- sumation of an agreement under which the State would pay the bridge com- pany $150,000. MARCUM’S DIVORCE PLEA UP IN FALL Justice Departmeng Aide Seeks De- cree After Wife Is Named Co-respeudant. Hearing on the divorce petition of Phillip H. Marcum, special assistant to the Attorney General, against Mrs. Marie S. Marcum. also of Washington, is expected to be held in Domestic Relations Court in Huntington, W. Va., in September, immediately following another divorce case in which Mrs. Marcum has been named as co-re- spondent. Mr. Marcum recently filed his petl- tion in the West Virginia city shortly after Harry A. Davidson of that city ntered divorce proceedings inat ‘Mrs, Cronnie Dayidson. A cross-bill subsequently followed this action and Mrs. Davidson named Mrs. Marcum as the cause of their separation in Au- gust, 1930. ‘The records show the Marcums were married in El Paso, Tex., in November, 1914, Marcum was a native of Hunt- ington and still claims that city as his legal residence. Separation is sald to have occurred in June, 1926. Both moved shortly thereafter to Washing- | ton, where Marcum is_connected with the Alien Property Division of the Justice Department. They have no children. BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU COMMITTEES APPOINTED | Standing Groups Announced by| | Joshua Evans, Jr., Re-elected as Chairman of Trustees. Aopointment_of standing committees of the Better Business Bureau for the | 1931-1932 terin was announced today | by Joshua Evans, jr. vesterday re-| elected as chairman of the board of trustees of the bureau. Ralph Goldsmith was named chair- man of the Merchandise Advisory Com- | mittee. Other members of this com- mittee include B. B. Bergunder, H. H.| Levi, A. C. Case, James Hardey, Sylvan King, Arthur Sundiun, Herbert.J. Rich, C. D. Grosner, 1. Behrend and Arthur Abbott. Mr. Evans named the following to compose the Executive Committee for the ensuing year: M. G. Gibbe, F. G. Addison, )r.: R. B. H. Lyon, Ralph Gold- smith, William G. Galliher. B. B. Ber- gunder, Sylvan King. L. Levay, H. L. Rust and F. P. H. Siddons. SEVEN HELD IN RAIDS Police Charge Liquor and Gaming in Third Inspection District. Two white and five colored persons > arrested in raids made early to- by the third police inspection dis- | titet vice squad | James Doris and Anna Doris were held on charges of permitting gaming, following a raid on their establishment, 520 Four-and-a-Half street | Bertha Byrd of 616 K street south- west. Lillie Bellfild of 312 G street | southwest. Jane Shelton of the same address, Louis Garner of 336 K street | southwest and Elizabeth Cobb of 347 | H street, all colored. were held on | charges of illegal possession of liquor ater raids were made at 312 G street southwest and 347 H street southwest. U. S. Cutters Reach Istanbul. ISTANBUL. Turkey. July 18 () “The United States Coast Guard cutters Sabago and Mendota arrived here to- day on a practice cruise for cadets. | They will leave for Marseilles next Fri- day. Army Orders Maj. Frederick H. Mills, Medical Corps, at Philadelphia, wili be retired Septem- ber 30 on his own application; Capt. Horace N. Heisen, Air Corps, has been transferred from Hawail to Mather | Fi-ld, CaRf; Lieut. Harold R. Emery, | Infantry, transferred from Lehigh Uni- | versity, to Columbia University; Capt } W. Webb, Signal Corps, from p.n-) ama to New York City: Capt. O. P. Winningstad. Ordnance, from San Lean- dro. Calif,, to Peoria, Ill.. Capt. F. T. Addington. Infantry. at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.. and Capt. T. R. Gibson, Infant at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.. hi becn assigned to the 65th Infantry San Juan, Porto Rico: the President has accepted the resignation of Lieut. Leonard D. Henry lery, recently graduated from the Mili- Ay | ing_the Mexican Agrarian Off for Record HOPS OFF ON NEW-YORK- TO-CUBA FLIGHT. JAMES HALL, California air pilot and holder of the WORLD DEPRESSION HURTS DISTILLERS European Liquor Business Suffers Severe Loss in Revenue. BY JOSEPH GRIGG. By Cable to The Star. LONDON, July 18.—The decline in the American tourist traffic to Europe this Summer has hit the Old World's liquor business an unexpected hlow, all the more forceful because of $he self- | abnegation which the so-called@zonomic WASHINGTON, MRS. HENDERSON' BODY REACHES CiT | Taken to “Boundary Castle,” Where Funeral Will Be Held Monday. The doors of “Boundary Castle” oipened to receive its mistress for the last time today, after the arrival of |the body of Mrs. John B. Henderson | at noon from Bar Harbor, Me., whare | the 90-year-old widow of Senator Hen- derson of Missouri died Thursday night. | Her attorney, George E. Edelin, was arranging for the funeral services, i which will be held Monday morning | Y | blizzard has imposed upon EWropeans | at 11 o'clock in the great brown- themselves. The champagne trade, par- | stone mansion at Sixteenth street and chief sufferers. Demand Falls Off. | lived for more than 40 years of her - | residence in Washington. It was said Rev. Maurice White, assistant pastor bly will officiate. After the services at the home, the body will be placed temporarily in a vault at Rock Creek Cemetery. Later it is to be taken to Brooklyn, N. Y.. where Mrs. Henderson will be buried lication: “There are large stocks of |8 |champagnes in the cellars of dis- | tributors, restaurants and hotels. The | public demand has dropped off to an unforeseen extent.” “ ” . beside her husband. But “the trade” hereabouts is not pre- | Miss Prances Arnold and Robert Arn- pared to believe that Britons, at any old of New York, niece and nephew rate, are losing their thirst. As the pub- | of Mrs. Henderson, being her only lication already quoted puts the present | PIood Telatives, accompanied the body from 3 3 1is id he position: “There is no reason for think- | ajsn 5\: gmammo;g_ &:g?&: }x{le;:ierson ing that he (the Briton) is losing his | Wholean was coming for the funeral. | taste for alecholic liquor.” It argues| Mrs. Wholean was adopted by Mrs. | that the decline in consumption is due | Henderson's son, and some years ago, to shortage of money and the general after her son's death, Mrs. Henderson lack of confidence in general commer- |adobted the young woman a her heir- cial circles. | at-law. .Following the legal suit to Even the old “nightcap” habit, once prevent her from giving away her Six- ticularly in Great Britain, is one of the | Florida avpnue, where Mrs. Henderson | According to a well known trade pub- | of All Souls' Unitarian Church, prob- | Canada-to-Mexico speed record, took so prevalent in this country, has not | teenth street residence as a home for off from New York City today, planning | escaped scot free. Some hardy citizens | the Vice Presidents, Mrs. Henderson to fly non-stop from New York to|used to consume two or three whisky | petitioned the court to set aside the to Havana, Cuba, in an attempt to| ‘“nightcaps” before retiring. They have | adoption. break the record established by Capt. Frank Hawks. —A. P, Photo. MOTHER GOES TO JAIL T0 PROTECT HER SON Refuses to Answer Grand Jury Questions Regarding Killing in Front of Home. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., July 18.—Mother love has prompted Mrs. Ed Smith to join her son behind the bars of the county jail here rather than answer questions |Tum and 5.911.000 gallons of wine. as, relative to a fatal shooting in front of her home. The son, Elno Berry. 26, is charged with the slaying of Miss Helen Ruth Lamar, 19, June 14, Questioned by the grand jury, Mrs Smith said, “That is my boy and any- thing I say can be used against him, 50 I'm not going to answer.” Judge Chatles A. Pippen informed her she would have to go to jail if she maintoined her stand. “I'll go to jail first.” she replied. Judge Pippen fined her $100 and sentenced her to jail for contempt of court until such time as she changes her attitude. INNER DOOR OF SAFE BALKS THIEVES' EFFORTS Heavy B8ledges Wielded Without Results at Company Office on Thirteenth Street. Thieves who broke into the office of the Thomas Somerville Co., 319 Thir- teenth street, were balked in their ef- fort to rob the safe last night, when an inner door of the strong box withstood their attempts to force it open after they had battered in the two outer doors with heavy sledges. George W. Taylor. manager of the plumbing supply firm, discovered the robbery attempt this morning when he opened the establishment. He said the safe contained less than $135. First precinct police found the yegg- | men jimmied the rear door of the building. ACTOR KILLS SISTER Star of Mexican Production For- gets to Load Pistol With Blanks. Is Held for Trial. Special Dispatch to The Star. MEXICO CITY, July 18.Tragedy has brought fo an unexpected ending the making of a motion picture depict- revolution by Sergei Eisenstein, noted Russian di- rector. Pedro Balderas. hero of the picture | was supposed to empty & pistol at his sister, in love with a, land owner, and fate wished the scene to be real. In the excitement of taking the picture, Senor Balderas forgot to load his pistol with blank cartridges and, firing at his sis- ter, shot her dead. He has been jailed awaiting trial. «Copyright. 1331.) come down to one. t Output Curtailed. ‘The warld’s reduced consumption of | whisky compelled distillers in this | country to curtail their output last year, with the result that the amount pro- duced was 2,404,600 proof gallons below that of the preceding year. But the | world’s whisky drinkers are not thereby | threatened with a shortage. Far from it. The amount of proof gallons of spirits held in bord on May 31, 1931, in Great Britain and Northern Ireland reached the staggering total cf 153.- | 266.000. or enough to quench the thirst | of the universe for years to come, even | | if all the distilleries closed down tomor- TOW. Also in bond at the present time in (largely in Great Britain) are 785,000 gallons cf brandy, 5,307.000 gallons of well as 638,000 gallons of “all other sorts,” to use the terminology of official trade statistics. (Copyrizht. 1931.) HEAT DEATHS PASS | 70 IN MIDDLE WEST AS STORMS KILL 12 _ (Continued From First Page.) |ing, the humidity is averaging 4 per | cent higher than yesterday. With all the days of rain this week, the total | amount of the rainfall since last Sun- |day was only .69 inches. At that, the [local rainfall exceeded that of Balti- more, which last month enjoyed many rains while Washington sweltered in | dryness. No cases of heat prostration were reported in Washington yesterday or | early today, but just outside the Dis- trict, at Cottage City, Md., Richard | Sunday of 2031 Benning road was over- | come while_ helping to remove electric light. poles from a street in the suburb. | He was given first-aid treatment by the Bladensburg Rescue Squad and taken ome. LIGHT! G KILLS FOUR. Seven Drown and Heat Overcomes | Many in Vicinity of Detroit. DETROIT. July 18 (#).--Four per- sons were killed by lightning, seven were drowned and a large number of heat prostrations were reported early this morning as the aftermath of a | 100-degree temperature ana a severe electrical storm which lashed this vi- cinity. Clark Hixon of Rochester and Edward Lang of Saginaw, farmers, were killed by bolts while working in the flelds Myra Hayes and Edna Dupius, 11-year- old St. Joachim. Ontario, girls, were killed when lightning struck a barn on their farm. Brenda Hayes, Myra's 13-year-old sister, who was playing in the rain with them, was severely shocked. ‘The drownings were largely the result of bathers stepping unexpectingly into deep water. Corporation Executive Dies. PASADENA, Calif, July 18 (#)— Walter Hunter Whiteside, 70, corpora- tion executive, d'ed unexpectedly at his home here last night of a heart ail- ment. He retired in 1926 as Pacific | Coast representative of the Westing- house Electric Co., with which he had been connected in Pittsburgh and New | York for many years. Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Justice Proctor in the Dis- trict Supreme Court decided in favor of Mrs. Henderson and the young wom- | an Has petitioned for a rehearing. | In view of these recent court suits. | Washingtonians are speculative as to | whether Mrs. Henderson's will would | be attacked. It is understood that Mrs. | Wholean was to have had a life in- | terest in the estate of both Mrs. Hen- | derson and of her son. DANIE _— L W. BELL NAMED TO SUCCEED R. G. HAND Becomes Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits—Other Promo- | tions Announced. Daniel W. Bell, who was assistant commissioner of accouants and deposits, Treasury Department, today was ap- pointed commissioner to succeed Robert Q. Hand. Mr. Hand killed himself three | |days ago after a nervous breakdown, | ascribed to overwork. | The announcement of Bell's promo- | tion was made through Acting Secretary | {of tre Treasury Mills in a statement which made known also cther promo- tions following as the result of the va- cancy. | Edward F. Bartelt, who was chief of the Divsiion of Bookkeeping and War- rants, succeeds Mr. Bell; Andrew M. Smith, assistant chief of the division, succeeds Mr. Bartelt and Juseph Green- berg, who was chief of the section of budget and special deposit matters in the Division of Bookkeeping and War- rants, succeeds Mr. Smith. It ‘'was announced also that super- vision over the section of surety bonds. Division of Appointmenis, had been transferred to the commissioner of ac- counts and deposits from the office of | the Division of Appointments, ADMR. MOFFETT ACQUIRES | | MANSION ON POTOMAC | Deed Transferring Picturesque Ault | i Home Filed at Lees- | burg. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEESBURG. Va.. July has been recorded. in the clerk’s o here transferring to Admiral W. A. Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aero- nautics, United States Navy Depart- ment, the Dickson property. located 3 miles east of Leesburg. The property, consisting of 35 acres, is located on the Potomac River and is regarded as onc | of the most picturesque along that | river. It was originally the home of the late John Ault. and was at one time | known #s Ault's landing. Work of restoring and repairing the bufldings on the property has already been started by Admiral Moffett, with the view of developing the place into a year-around home. POLICEMEN -GET REWARD By a Staff Correspondent of The Star ALEXANDRIA, Va. July 18.—Four members of the local police force have | received a reward of $50 to be divided | between them for the arrest and con- viction of Bolphus Hall, charged with the theft of an automobile owned by G. J. Hufford The reward was paid by the American | Automobile Association. = Those receiv- | ing the 1eward were Sergt. George | Everly and Patrolmen Suthard, Hicks | | and Roberts. High Speed D. C.-Chicago Line Opens INAUGURAL FLIGHT REQUIRES 3 HOURS 35 MINUTES. R t Canton and Pittsburgh, and arrival here at 4 p.m. reaching Chicago at 8 In the picture, taken with one of Second | miles per hour, as a background. are. from left to right Field Artil- Airways. operators of the line: Frederic J. Haskin. Washington newspaper man: H. R. Witter, mayor of Canton president of Continental Airways, and W. L. Holst, 1c{a1 representative of the line, S N. Anderson| the inauguraf flight. EGULAR air passenger service between the National Capital and Chicago on & fiv , than four hours began today following inaugural fiights s 5 e TR e Washington was made by Harold Johnson, chief pilot of th 20 minutes less than the regular schedule. Inaugural ceremones were held at Canton, Ohio, and Pittsburgh. the only stops on the line | in operation six days a week. calls for departure from Chicago at 9 am. Washington time. stops of 10 minutes each . Entr'acte— rday after: at Washington-Hoover Afrport at 1:15 p. 15 p.m. Washington time the low-wing monop! Pilot Johnson. Glibert D. C., SATURDAY JULY 18, 1931 Wheat Piles Up and Prices Fall BUSHEL BI GS 25 RUSSIANPLANNERS SEEK NEW ENERGY Wide Use of Mineral and Non- Metalic Materials Promi- nent in Studies. MOSCOW (#).—Wider development and use of mineral and non-metallic | materials take a promnent place in studies now being made preparatory to drafting Russia’s new five-year plan. ‘The planners hope to find new sources of energy, & phase in which they admit Soviet Russia heretofore has lagged. “One of the fundamental questions | of the second five-year plan is that of | mineral raw materials as a base for | the development of industry,” said | Academician Fersman, member of the commission for preparing the plan. “This raw material occuples a low place in our economic life, since its| preparation for exploitation is far from satisfactory. We must find new beds of ore, salts and non>metallic minerals like coal, petroleum and lime. “The laws of ec nomic geography must give us tbe an ver as to where our industrial centers must be located. “Furthermore, we must find cheaper electro-induction materials. “The establishment of new sources of energy during the next five-year pe- riod will mean a complete change in ideas about useful minerals. What we | do not consider valuable now in rela- tion to cheaper power may suddenly become the base for a whole line of | new products.” 1 ford, in Philadelphia. This concert was overheard by Andreas Dippel, adminis- trative manager of the Metropolitan | Opera. | A few days later Miss Case received a | letter from Mr. Dipp<l asking her to ar- rangs an audition at the Metropolitan. The auditions were successful, and Miss Case made her Metropolitan debut in 1910 in the role of the Dutch boy in/| Massanet's “Werther.” She is said to have been the first American singer ac- | cepted by the Metropolitan without Eu- ropean training. For eight years she was a member of the M-tropolitan, singing among other roles that of Sophie in “Der Roscnk: valier,” Micaela in “Carmen,” with Ca- C. H. MACKAY WEDS MISS ANNA CASE IN QUIET CEREMONY __(Continued From First Page.) | ruso and Farrar, and Theodora in “Boris Godounof!.” | Miss Case preferred concert singing. however, and she soon began a carer which averagsd between 50 and 60 con- | cents & year and from 25,000 to 30,000 | miles traveling. | At the Wihte House she sang befor> Presidents Taft, Harding and Coolidge. Her foreign tours covered England, Hol- land and Germany. Made First Sound Picture. ‘ With the arrival of talking pictures, iss Case made th> first sound picture, a Fiesta,” which was sent around the country to Introduce the new art. She previously had appeared in silent films. | More recently she has sung in radio | roadcasts | Miss Case has two_brothers, Peter | Stanley Case of New Jersey and Jere- | miah Lester Cass of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Mackay is a native of San Fran- cisco. His father, the late John W. Mackay, was one of th» central figures in the development of the Comstock | lode at Virginia Cite, Nev., and one of | the empire builders of the Far West by his discovery of th> famous Bonanza ore body, the richst silver deposit found up to that time. With James Gordon Bennett he entered the electrical com- munications field in 1883 and in 1886 chartersd the Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. and began building up the organiza- tion to its present standing | Interested in Music. Clarence; H. Mackay, who was edu- | cated by private tutors in France and | England and was graduated from Beau- | mont College in 1892, b>came president | of the Mackay system of telegraphs on the death of his father, in 1902. He has long been interested in music and is a directos of the Metropolitan Opera Company and chairman of the board of directors of the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York. | In recognition of his services to the public in connection with the develop- ment of musical art. Mr. Mackay was awarded in 1926 the gold medal of the National Institute of Social. Sci:nces. In 1928 he received the honorary degree of doctor of music, from New York Uni- versity. Mr. Mackay and his daughter Ellin | became estranged after her marriage in 1926 to Irving Berlin. who began his career as & singing waiter and became one of America’s foremost composers of popular music. It was said the father's disapproval was based on dif- ference in religious faiths. Although the Mackays were prominently identi- fled with the Roman Catholic Church. the Berlins were married at the Munici- pal Building by a city clerk. Mrs. Berlin and her father became reconciled two years later. after the death of Mr. Mackay's mother, in ful- | fillment, it was said, of the grand-| mother’s wish. | l By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at the bandstand at 5:30 o'clock; John S. M. PZlmrtn"_ bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. | March, “Zacatecas”. ncon. The first flight from Chicago to n 3 hours and 35 minutes actual flying time, | The schedule, | m. On the return trip the plane leaves nes of the line. which are capable of a top speed of 215 F. Wagner. vice president of Continental All but Holst made —Star Staff Photo. Overture, “Euryanthe Solo for piccolo, “La Tourterelle,” Damare Musician John Prezioso. Excerpts from musical comedym “Three Musketeers”.. (a) “The Moochi”...... . . (b) “Like a Romance in & § ed Waltz song, “The Waltz You Saved = | CENTS, OR THREE LOAVES OF BREAD, IN KANSAS. ‘,FRAN o KFURT Qw29 PPER: Seventy thousand bushels of wheat—count 'em—are in this pile of wheat heaped upon the ground et the Luther ranch, near Cimarron, Kans., while near by a 50,000-bushel granary is being rushed to comple- tion. The wheat will be stored in the hopes that later it will bring a - 1bcner price. Wheat in that section has been bringing as low as 25 cents a bushel. Lower: Farmer of Salina County, Kans., effects a trade with & merchant, giving a bushel of wheat for three loaves of bread. They est'mated that the | bushel of wheat would make 56 loaves of bread, which is said to be about the amount of bread the farmer would get for an acre of wheat on the same trad- ing basis. —A. P. Photos. MARYLAND STOCK TO BE FED HALF OF BUMPER GRAIN CROP Low Wheat Price Makes 8.000,000-Bushel Yield a Serious Financial Handicap. | declared that a further reduction should be made in next year's plantings. One cheerful aspect of the otherwise drab picture, Symons said. was the fact | that the farmers would approach the Winter with a supply of feed on hand for his stock. Because of the drought | last year, the farmer had to buy feed in a disadvantageous market. adding to his burdens caused by the rain short- By the Associaied Press. COLLEGE PARK. Md.. July 18.—Ap- proximately 50 per cent of the 8,000,000~ bushel Maryland wheat crop is likely to be fed by the Maryland farmer to his stock, in the opinion of Dr. Thomas B. Symons, director of the extension service of the University of Maryland. ‘The present condition is one of the most trying on farmers, Dr. Symons said, since wheat is one of the princi- | age. pal cash crops of the Maryland agri-' The yield of the hay crop also has culturist. But with a surplus over-| been good this year. Dr. Symons said, hanging the market, including the | Which is further advantage for the stocks held by the Farm Board, and | Winter feeding of cattle. Corn also is with the current price about 40 cents a | Teported in good condition, although it bushel, the farmer can't get much out | is vet too early to make any definite of his crop. prediction as to the crop, he said. The wheat crop this year is also very | The extension service has begun a good, the Spring and Summer having | campaign urging farmers to reduce been favorable. the extension chief de- | their wheat crops and give more atten- clared. One of the most fortunate cir- | tion to feed and legumes, $8.000,000 | cumstances, he said, was the reduction worth of which is purchased yearly by in acreage from 500,000 to 400,000, and | Maryland farm men, Dr. Symons said. 621,059 IS OFFICIAL A“cA;lTAVlV_ EUS BAN POPULATION GIVEN | FOR CAPITAL AREA‘ (Continued From Pirst Page) Joint Board Is Named as Authority Backing Removal of Interstate Carriers Downtown. 64.7 per cent and that of Virginia 43.1 per cent. Sl Population by Districts. The complete list of districts, cities, towns and villages in the metropolitan ; . area of Washington and their respec- | (oM the central downtown area, adopt tive populations, compared with 1920, | ed Thursday by the Public Utilities is given by the Bureau of the Census Commission, in conference with the as follow 1620, | District Commissioners, was changed 3 | yesterday to show that it had been adopted by the joint board, consisting 17153 | of members of both commissions, set up in the Traffic act which became 2189 | effective July 1. The order previously | had read that it was “approved” by | the joint board as an order of the Utili- 1 | ties Commission, and Acting Corpora- 5 | tion Counsel Vernon L. West ruled the change was necessary to make it legal. | Two other portions of the order were 4110 | changed for the same reason. These 138 | were the sections ordering interstate 74 | bus operators to report to the Utilities Commission the route, schedule, etc., of their lines in the District, and prohibit- The order barring interstate busses 1930 621.039 524 Washington. 436960 4 Metropolitan district B C Maryland— Montgomery County District ~ 4—Rockviile. cluding Rockviile town part Garrett Park District_7—Bethesda, ex ing Glen Echo. Somersst. Northwest Park and pari of Garrett 3 District 10—Potomac Disgrict ~ 13—Wheaton. cluding _ Kensington and part Takoma fown 4.221 112 Garrett Park town. Glen Echo town.. Kensingto: ing the companies from operating in | Prince Georges Cou District 1--Vansville District 2_BI; Colmar Manor and Cott the District without the permission of the Utilities Commission. In both cases the phrase “the proper authorities” was substituted for the phrase “this com- mission.” e, age G 2857 District’ 6 Spaidinis. ‘exciid- ing Boulevard Heights s xon Hill.... 1.528 1686 "% EX-MAYOR OF RICHMOND DIES AT 62 YEARS OF AGE 2181 George Ainslie Succumbs After IIl- ness of Several Weeks—Widow owie Tow District ~16_Hyattsvilie, cludingEdmonston Town and Hyattsville Town. ... District 17—Chillum. exeiud- reniwood, ' Mount . North Brentwood ma Park Pleasant. 505 3478 A e e and Children Survlve.. Riverdale Heights Town 20—Li 21—B 1,809 Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va. July 18.—George o H erwyn Heights Town Bladensburs, Town ghts 507 | Boulevard He 11912 until 1924, died at his home here early this morning after an illness of several weeks. He was a graduate of | Virginia Military Institute and studied {law at the University of Virginia, re- 1oeh1n¢ his bachelor of arts degree. He is survived by a widow, two daughters | and two brothers. ROYALTY AT FUNERAL Services for Archbishop Soederblom Held at Stockholm. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 18 (#).— Memb:rs of the royal family today at- tended funeral services for Archbishop Nathan Soederblom of Upsala, winner | of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize, who died 447 | on_Sunday. | _ Representativ = foreign Tows 4 1.19: Siansiin SRR szabats =28282; town ........ Riverdale Heights town JJakoma Pk. town (part) T h'ch town (pi Jefferson district ‘Washington d part of P own) e airfax County . Falls Ch'ch town (part) Fairfax town ... Provicence district. "ex- cluding Pairfax town W own: . il of many #0513 | church organiza’ ons crowded the cathe- ar IS Churc! n 1incorporatea mace 1920. Ainslie, 62, mayor of Richmond from | KANSAS GRAIN BELT PLOWS KEEP IDLE State Apparently Abandons Wheat Raising in Face of Low Price. Special Dispatch to The Star. CIMARRON, Kans, July 18 (N.AN.A) —Having broken all records for wheat this Summer, Kansas appears as if it intends to abandon the produc- i tion of its premier crop altogether. A trip through the wheat belt shows vir- tually no efforts have been expended toward the seeding of a new crop this Fall. Where normally thousands of acres of stubble would have been plowed by this time, hardly any has been turned under. The situation is paradoxical in two cases. Kansas is just concluding the harvest on 12,500,000 acres, with a yield of more than 200,000,000 bushels— probably more than Canada will pro- duce in all its prairie provinces. Only scattered showers have interrupted six weeks of steady harvesting, and the vield and quality of the grains have been unimpaired. Never before has it been possible to seed a new crop so cheaply. “Blue” gasoline is being delivered in the fields for 5 2-10 cents a gallon. Wheat worth 15 cents would seed an acre, and labor can be hired for $2 a day. Ordinarily the stubble would be turned under im- mediately after harvest, since plowing in July " increases the yield 8 to 10 bushels an acre the following Summer. Forced From Farms. Yet the State has not made a move toward its new crop. One explanation 1s that farmers are short of power. A more important one is that 25-cent wheat threatens to force many farmers off their farms this Fall. A third ex- planation is that wheat at present prices is not an attractive investment for labor or land. Just what Kansas will do in wheat this Fall is yet to be settled. The thou- sands of tenant farmers are yet to learn whether they will be able to op- erate this coming Winter. Most of them are so deeply in debt that only the indulgence of the implement com- panies, bankers and landlords can save them. Nearly all want to retain their land. The farm furnishes a home for the tenant and his family and part of their Tivi Going to town would put him in &n even worse situation. That ex- plains why all the Kansas wheat was harvested this Summer and why the wheat is being delivered, in many in- stances, on mortgages when the deliv- ery means that it breaks the farmer. He wants to keep his farm. A leading Westerp Kansas banker said yesterday he looked for a substan- tial decrease in acreage. “Many farmers will let part of their lands lie idle a vear in an effort to in- crease acre yields,” he said. “Substan- tial farmers who are not forced to sell their crops will carry it over and plant less wheat this Fall, figuring that it is better business to hold wheat produced at less than cost than to sell it and raise another crop. “‘Unquestionably there will be many tenants who are so hopelessly involved they must leave their farms. However, the spirit of th> debt holiday now be- ing arranged through the wheat beit will be carried over into the Winter for every man who can possibly survive the situation.” Alexander Legg>, former chairman of the Farm Board, is winning many friends in the wheat belt because of the leadership he has taken as head of the | International Harvester Co. in asaisting farmers to hold their wheat. No reports have com~ that the International has been forcing the sale of wheat to satisfy | its mortgages. That is not true, how- ever, of two other implement companies and an agricultural credit association, whose agents have been reported active in the wheat belt. (Copyright. 1931. by the North Ameriean i Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) HOPE RISES WITH PRICES. \ [ { Four-Cent Increase Slows Rural Kan- sas Shipments. GARDEN CITY, Kans, July 18 (. —Elevator operators here said today optimism engendered by an advance in wheat prices to 29 cents a bushel, a 4-cent rise since Monday, was partly responsible for a decline in receipts at country shipping points. Officers of the Farmers' Equity, one of the largest shippers in the south- west, sald farmers who sold grain at 25 cents a bushel had expressed the fear it would drop to a dime. Now, they explained, the producers believed that “if the price can jump once it can jump some more.” Only about one-fourth as much wheat was bought by local elevators yesterday as a week ago. CANADA MOVES CROP Ships More Grains Through Own Port Than in Many Years. OTTAWA, Ont, July 18.—Canada shipped a larger proportion of her wheat through Canadian ports during the last 11 months of this crop year than she has for a number of years. Since August 1 approximately 59 per cent of Canada’s total overseas wh | shipments were made through Canadian jports, while- in the crop years ended with July of 1930, 1929 and 1928 the | percentages were 53.1, 552 and 514, | respectively. Most of the Canadian wheat exports }ln the United Kingdom are routed | through United States Atlantic sea- board ports. Exports of Canadian wheat to Great Britain this year is already more than double those of the whole preceding crop year, but still under two-thirds of the record of 1928-1920. Expofts to other countries, however, are the larg- est in a decade with the exception of | 1928-1929. when extensive shipments went to China | (Copyrignt, 1931 be the North Amertcan fewspaper Alliance, Inc.) WINTER STORES UNCHANGED. Chairman Stone of the Federal Farm Board said today that the Wheat Stabili- zation Corporation has not soid a bushel of its wheat holdings in the South- west, for which another bushel has not been purchased by the corporation from ihe farmers. In other words, there have been no net sales of wheat by the stabilization corporation, holding the surplus wheat bought by the board last year, in Kan- sas and the other States where the present price of wheat to the farmers is so low that here and there it has touched 25 cents a bushel. 8o far as the Spring wheat section is concerned, the Northwest, the chair- man said that sales of not more than |a million bushels had been made where millers particularly desired the wheat. In that section, he explained, the crops have not yet been harvested and the sales were not in competition with the farmers. While disclaiming any intention of giving advice to the farmers of wheat, Chairman Stone expressed the opinion that if the farmers would hold their wheat to as great an extent as possi- ble, and curtail their acreage for the next crop, they could materially help themselves. He denied that the Farm Board had any intention of renewing its stabiliza- tion operations with the present crop. explaining that only the purchase of all the surplus wheat could materially aid the farmers, and there is not enough money in the revolving fund for the board to do that ,even if were advisable to do so.