Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1931, Page 5

FARM BOARD POLICY PROTESTS GROWING Kansas Wheat Crop Return Is Seen Not Sufficient for Taxes. BY MARK SULLIVAN. In Washington today two subjects en- gage attention bevond all others. One is the European situation. Fully equal to the European crisis in the amount of commotion attending it is the pressure from Kansas, Oklahoma and nearby States on the Federal Farm Board to refrain from selling any of the more than 200,000,000 bushels of wheat it ac- quired in its process of stabilizing the market during the past two years. ‘The board’s policy announced on July 1 is that it will sell “a cumulative maxi- mum of 5.000,000 bushels per month. ‘The sales will be conductd in such a fashion as not to depress prices. It is ot the intention to make any immedi- ate sales even of these limited amounts the present range of prices. Against this policy there is concen- trated a growing outcry from Kansas and Oklahoma, where the crop has just been harvested and where the farmers are receiving the lowest prices ever re- corded in America or elsewhere. Change Seen Price Ald. The theory underlying the protest to | the Farm Board from Kanses is that the farmers of that and nearby States * would have a chance to get a better price if the Farm Board would revoke its recently announced policy and say to the world that it would hold all its wheat off the market for at least one year or, as some propose, two years. About_the vehemence of the demand from Kansas there need be no doubt The Wichita Eagle, forceful and widely eirculated newspaper in the very heart of the Southwestern wheat belt. deals with the situation in column after column of editorials and news discus- slon. The Eagle points out that Kansas has 200,000,000 bushels, that the Farm Board has about the same (actually more), and that any sale of any quan- tity by the Farm Board takes just that much market_away from the Kansas farmer. The Eagle vividly pictures the economic_plight of Kansas in terms of taxes. “The Sedgwick County crop, one of the best in years, won't pay a third of the taxes.” In the State as a whole, the wheat crop at present price of 33 cents will pay “just about half the total tax bill. Wheat is far and away the leading source of new wealth in Kansas : The Kansas City Journal Post fs printing a series of full-page advertise- ments urging its readers to “act now! Send a letter or telegram to one or all of Herbert Hoover, President of the United States: Arthur M. Hyde, Secre- tary of Agriculture; James C. Stone, chatrman of the Federal Farm Board . . . The wheat farmer deserves the same consideration accorded forelgn na- lons."” Policy Is Firm. ‘The immediate question, seething at ‘Washington, is whether the Farm Board will take account of the demand, change its policy. and hold its wheat off the market for an announced term of one year or two vears. One would infer from the atmosphere about the Farm Board that thev are unlikely to change. Their policy was arrived at afier care- ful canvass of all possible courses. The personnel of the board are strong men At the same time, persons who think the board would be wise to change are numerous. end some. such as Vice Presi- dent Curtis and Senator Capper. carry a good deal of weight. One would hesi- tate to assert positivelv that the board will not change its policy. The flood of appeals from the Southwest continues grow toward what the board would call a “cumulative maximum.” Some of the efforts to move them are bitter, some patient One point made is that the board could change now and would still have taken a long step. The point is that if the board had not announced its inten- tion :to sell there would have been. in- stead of the present demand. a differ- ent but equally insistent demand that the board buy more wheat, just as it bouslt more to keep the price high dur- ing the last two crop vears. Whatever happens now, the board has achieved the psychological effect of bringing to an end, presumably for all time, the ex- periment of Government purchase for price-raising or price-stabilizing pur- Pposes. Farmers Received Premium. Incidentally the board feels that wheat farmers should and will remember that the board is not to be judged by its present step alone, but by its whole two years of history. It s asserted and seems easily proved that every farmer Wwho sold wheat during nearly two years preceding June 1 received, as a result of the Farm Board's buying, about 25 cents a bushel more than he would otherwise have received. It was this buying for the purpose of maintaining a high price level that resulted in the board's present possession of over 200,000,000 bushels. The board feels also that some of their critics are unfair. Criticisms ex- pressed with brevity of headlines and slogans cause farmers to think the Farm Board's present policy is the one and only cause of the present lqw price. Obviously, the major causes are quite different. Some vheat experts think that if the Farm Board should yield to demands and change its policy, the general price level would not change materially. (Copyright, 1031.) SEES PENNSYLVANIA FOR GOV. ROOSEVELT Former Democratic Committeeman Believes New Yorker Will Get 66 of 72 Votes. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July Guffey, former Pennsylvania Demo- cratic national committeeman, in a statement made_ public last night, said he would risk his political reputation on the prediction that Gov. Roosevelt of New York would receve “not less 20.—Joseph E. than 66 of Pennsylvania's” 72 votes at | the national Democratic convention. Mr. Guffey's prediction was made at his home in Pittsburgh, the New York Democratic State Committee made it public_here. Mr. Guffey supported Al- fred E. Smith in the 1924 and 1928 campaigns. BRITISH DOMINIONS JOIN IN SUGAR PARLEY Measures to Lower Production Costs and Increased Efficiency Loom at London Session. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 20.—Problems of the British Empire's sugar production, particularly regarding the present eco- nomic situation, were opened for sur- vey and discussion at the Empire Sugar Conference begun here today. Forty delegates represented South Africa, India, Trinidad, British Guinea, the Fiji, Mauritius, Leeward and Wind- ward Island and Britain itself. Opening the conference, the first su- gar conference ever convoked by the British Empire, Dr. Drummond Shiels, undersecretary for the colonies, the conditions of sugar-producing colo- nies was causing much anxiety. Cane r Eoducuon especially will be dealt wl{!:, cluding consideration of a sci entific measure for increasing effi- ciengg apd lowering production costs. said | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, GEOGRAPHIC PLANS ‘Two men imprisoned in the motor in 60 feet of water for the test. Left chamber of the diving bell through a hatch on top of it. room of the Navy's experimental sub- marine, §-4, were brought to the surface safely by means of a diving bell in a test rescue in Long Island Sound off Block Island. Above: The S-4 submerging ‘The rescued men climbing out of the —A. P. Photos STONE SEES DEBT PLAN AS FARM AID Stimulation of Exports Ex- pected With European Rehabilitation. Economic rehabilitation of Central Europe will be a big factor in solving | the difficulties of American wheat farm- ers, Chairman Stone of the Farm Board declared yesterday. “Success cf th> debt moratorium,” he said, “will start things moving freely, stimulate exports, tend to break down import restrictions znd_create a better sentiment throughout the world. “Meantime,” he added, “if I were a Kansas farmer I would stcre my wheat | or feed it until the price improved.” | Southwestern farmers, who a week ago were receiving as low as 25 cents a bushel for their bumper crop, have | adopted this expedient. As a result, | movement to market has dwindled, with | a subsequent increase of 4 or 5 cents in price. A widespread voluntary moratorium on farmers' debts by bankers, merchants and supply houses has permitted farm- | ers to withhold their crops. In many | cases wheat is being used as a medium of exchange for necessities and luxuries at_highcr than market prices. Mr. Hoover, who has become increas- ingly concerned over the wheat grow- ers’ economic welfare, told Senator Cap- per, Republican, Kansas, yesterday that the debt moratorium has solved the “major problem” in th> Central Euro- pean crisis, to which he attributed the ‘l;presenz paralysis” of the export mar- t. et. Senator Capper and Vice President Curtis, also a Kansan, have sought to impress upon the Chief Executive the need for a Farm Board pledge it would not dispose of any of its stabilization wheat holdings in competition with the new crop. European importing countries have been doing only hand-to-mouth buying. Limitations on’ foreign wheat used with domestic wheat have been increased by several. Others have raised their tariff. Stocks of old vheat are lower than last year, but this year's crops are larger. The Agriculture Department expects present crop prospects, existence of sur- pluses in exporting nations and demand to bring another vear of low prices for the world as a whole. [VIGILANTES OPPOSED BY AUSTRALIAN STATE Government of New South Wales Denounces Secret Organization for Civil Protection. | SYDNEY, Australia (#).—“The New !Gum’d," an organization composed mainly of war veterans and modeled somewhat on the Italian:fascisti, has been publicly end bitterly denounced by the government of the state of New South Wales. | When John T. Lang, premier of the | state, allied himself with the extreme |elements of the labor parties, many wartime officers thought it was time to preserve the constitution. “The New Guard” was createfl to maintain law and order should organ- ized violence threaten society. Lang's repudiation of overseas debts, which has affected the credit of Aus- tralia, and his introduction of revolu- tlonary legislation, were also cited as factors which made necessary the formation of some sort of powerful organization to protect the constitution of the state. Consequently former service men ral- lied to “The New Guard.” The organ- ization is secret but it is known that its membership is numerous and in- fluential. D. C.-VIRGINIA BUS ROUTE FOR SIGHT-SEEING HALTED State Corporation Commission Can- cels Certificate Issued to Vie- tor C. Donaldson. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va. July 20.—A cer- tificate authorizing Victor C. Donaldson to furnish sight-seeing bus service be- tween Washington and points of in- terest in Virginia has bzen canceled by the State Corporation Commission be- cause of his failure to comply with cer- tain provisions of the law governing lsuch service. C. H. Yarbrough, trading as Red Fox "smfi; 1s applying for a furn! passenger m between Warrenton and by way of Federal Route 15, TWO BILLION IN BUILDING CONTRACTS LET IN U. S. Figures on Work Eince December .1, 1930 Issued by President'’s Employment Committee. By the Associated Press. Public and semi-public work con- tracts awarded since December 1, 1930, have passed the $2,000,000,000 mark. Figures issued today by the Presi- dent's Emergency Committee for Em- ployment gave the total as $2,008,- 420,999. The total reported for last week was $129.616,304, including more than $79.- 800,000 of Federal aid and State high- way contracts in 37 States. This cov- ered all contracts for June and repre- sented 6,831 miles of road work. Forty-five States and the District of Columbia were included in the total new construction of all types reported. Ballston Lawn Party Tonight. BALLSTON, Va., July 20 (Special). —The lawn party being given by the Woman's Club of the Ballston Presby- terian Church will be held on the church grounds tonight instead of Wednesday as previously announced. §418,000 ADDITION Adjoining Building to House Administrative Offices of Society. A total of $418,000 i to be expended by the National Geographic Soclety in erecting an addition to its present building at Sixteenth and M streets, and remodeling the premises, according to plans filed today with the District building inspector. Work Starts Soon. Specifications call for a new four- story building, to be erected at a cost of $391,000 on the south side of the present structure and adjoining it. Re- modeling work on the soclety’s building at 1156 Sixteenth street as well as al- terations necessary at the juncture of the two buildings, will cost $25,000, ac- cording to the plans filed. With the request by the builders, George A. Fuller Co., for an excavation permit in advance of the approval of plans for the buflding, work is expected to go ahead shortly on the proposed structure. Excavating will cost $2,000, it was estimated. The new building, which has been designed by Arthur B. Heaton. Capital architect, will conform in style to the present society headquarters structure, which follows Itallan Renaissance period architecture, Planned for Administration. The bullding will have a frontage of {134 feet on Sixteenth street, with a | depth of 89 feet. The lot on which it vice in New York City is regarded will be erected measures 295 feet oy by the Committee of fourteen as greater | 193 feet. in volume and more brazenly open than| The structure will be built of brick at any time in the last 15 yvears. Its|and stone, with tile and composition findings are contained in its annual| roof. It will be equipped with two pas- report, published today. The commit-|senger elevators and one freight ele- tee is a civilian reform organization.|vator. The new addition will be used The chain dance hall is mainly re-| exclusively as an administration bufld- sponsible for immortality, in the com- | ing, mittee's view. The report charges that most of the worst dance halls are operated by a syndicate which is protected by police and a former magistrate, who has since resigned. The committee apologizes for its blunder of last year, in which it com- | mended “the honest ‘and efficient work" | of Assistant Prosecutor John C. Weston in the Women's Court. Since the 1929- {30 report was published Weston has confessed that he took bribes to fix vice cases. The current report changes District Attorney Crain failed to_act on evi- dence obtained on vice’by tve com- mittee. It finds that disorde~'w houses, barred from New York for years, are reap- T In one part of Brooklyn, an investigator re- ported, they were numerous enough to | constitute a district CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Outdoor card party, Aloysian Club, 47 I street, 8:15 pm. Meeting, Veteran Marine Corps Legion Committee on Arrangements for Leathernecks excursion, District Build- ing, 8 p.m. | FUTURE ! Tce cream fesiival, McKendree M. E. | Chureh, Ninth street and Massachusetts avenue, tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. Luncheon, Association of Credit Men, Raleigh Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. VIGE IN NEW YORK SHOWN INCREASING Civilian Reform Committee Reports Chain Dance Hall Mainly Responsible. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 20.—Commercial Fall From Tree Fatal. PETERSBURG, W. Va., July 20 (Spe- cial) —Mrs. John Borrer, 35, died at her home near here yesterday of in- jurles sustained when “she fell frem a |cherry tree at_her home recentl; At the Si the Moon On Any Light or Medium Weight SUIT During Our July Sale- A wonderful selection of suitings to choose from. Reduced ! $29.50 Garments, now....$22.12 $35 Garments, now.......$26.25 $40 Garments, now. ......$30.00 HAND-TAILORED TO ORDER by Mertz skilled tatlors, assuring per- | fect fit and satisfaction. 'MERTZ & MERTZ CO. | A toy balloon recently released at | Birmingham, England, has been found in Norway. A MECHANICAL RHAPSODy RIVALS HE hurdy-gurdy man meets a baffling problem. Why should his rival, the Robot of Canned Music, perfdrm for money in a theatre, while he and his monkey receive only adjurations to move out of the block? Truly, a strange enigma! Millions have found canned music unsatisfying and have joined the Music Defense League in protest against its substitution for Living Music in the theatre. If you love good music R e and value its cultural influ- ence on our national life, it is your privilege to do AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS 1440 Broadway, New York, N. Y. \ Gentlemen: Without further obligation on my part, please enroll my mame in League as one who is opposed to Living Music from the Theatre. likewise. Just sign and mail this coupon. THE AMERI FEDERAT ION OF M omprisis musicians in the U OO RErIt 1 WEaEh Frosdent, 1440 Bronwar, Now Yok Ny Yo C \ JULY 20, 1931. Science Vitamin Radiations Affect Photographic Plate. Vitamins A and B, the chemical and fil‘iyllcll npmpnflel of which thus far ve defled anafysis, emit radiations which will affect a photographic plate, to exgergnent reported in| don, by Sophie Bctcharsky | and ‘Anna Poehringer, . side of a photographic | ?llw was covered with a2luminum foil | rom which the letters VA ond VB | were cut out. Then these spaces were | painted with extracts of the two vita- | mins. For vitamin A was used an ether extract of drled ox liver from which the solvent had been removed. For vitamin B the investigators used a ‘water extract of purified brewer's yeast. | The plates then were wrapped in| black pa) and left for three days. | On development clear images of t lettery were obtained. Then the ex- Perlm nt was repeated with two so- | lutions of each extract, one 10 times tronger than the other. The plates showed a corresponding differénce in | the strength of the images. | Control experiments with vitamin | substance removed from the solvents | gave unfogged plates. T.R. H. (Copyright, 1931 Nearly 500 fisher girls sailed recently from Aberdeen, Scotland, to Lerwick to help during the Shetland Islands’ her- Ting season. A5 |JUROR DELAYS TRIAL BY OPPOSING OATH French Court Helpless to Punizh Recalcitrant Because of Lack in Penal Code. THREE ARE INJURED -IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS Two Men and One Woman Trestedl in Hospitals—One Hit-and- | PARIS.—Because a juror refused to Run Victim. i be sworn ‘before God” a trial for | murder at Versaflles has been post- Three persons were njured in trafMc | poned to another session of the Assiz: ;’;‘;o"g"m;‘;:'my"fn‘f,‘;‘:”" according 10 Goyurt. No action was taken against John Victory, No. 5 Sherman circle, | the recalcitrant juror because the case was treated for bruises of the head and | IS not covered by the Penal Code. A body at Garfield Hospital after he had | JUrOr refusing to be sworn can be fined, been struck by sn automobile in the | but nothing is said of an objection to 3600 block of New Hampehire avenus. | the form of the oath. Anti-clericals The automobile was driven by John |2f€ now pressing for modification of Paul Jones, 31, of the 5200 block of the oath. which includes the phrase Fourteenth street, police said. | “before God and before men. Slightly hurt by an auto as it was| This is in line with the general bagking in the 600 block of H street POlCY of the Left parties, which seek northeast, Rose Morcus, 39, of 1322 H | eliminate religion from all public street northeast, was taken to Casualty | Bfifl’lé“’ffie Esgme oy e Mg vernm; remove Hospltal and ‘treated for cuts and Raies olucr;njn i alto"the eros T Joi | from courts of justice, where they hac of Gosd Hope o, Temkin, colored. 72, | stood from early Christian days. ~ Not being treated at Casuslty Hospital for | UNeY Want the oath to be ron-religiou- Injuries received when he was knocked | (Coprisht. 1931 by the New York Su down by an automobile operated by a | - “hit-and-run” driver at Sixty-third and | Dix streets northeast, according to! police. | UPPER MARLBORO. Md, July 20 o = | iSpectal) -—Mr. and Mrs. harles 2 inger have announced the engagemeni Oxon Hill to Have Lawn Fete. | "0, /G0 SRACUoed the hgagemen: OXON HILL. Md. July 20 (Special). |to Mr. George Christopher Moore, son —A lawn party will be held on the | of Mr. and Mrs. Herman E. Moore of grounds of the Oxon Hill Methodist | Ritchie. The wedding will take place Episcopal Church Saturday evening. | early next month. Marlboro Girl to Wed. Neither Suddenly Rich Nor Suddenly Good So one sage observed. But from our side of the grocery counter, it looks as if what a man gets to eat is a great help to both his finances and his dispostion. For we've yet to meet the man who can eat a lean meal and be the happier for it. And we've never known high prices for even the fanciest food to raise either the spirits or the family fortune. And having noted this, we haven't stopped there. We're promoting digestions and there- fore dispositions, by selling only the best food; ond we're promoting savings and therefore bank accounts, by selling it at the low prices made possible only by our huge business and tiny profit. 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