Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1931, Page 3

Days At Gibson’s All This Week 25¢ 25¢ Tooth Paste 2 for ... 80e Prophylactic Tooth Brush.. 2Be Seidlitz Pow- ders, 2 for... 25¢ e s D00 We Deliver $1 or More GIBSON'’S 919 G St. NW. #See Etz and See Better” I you took & trip that had been previously de- cribed by a friend as “the most beautiful sight he had ever seen,” you wouldn't want to miss one bit of it, we know. Carry an extra pair of our glasses with you. ETZ Optometrists 1217 G St. N.W. | NITED X STATES TORAG OMPANY FARM ILLS REVIVE {Washington Echoes Distress in Form of Various Aid Proposals. By the Assoclated Press. The distress of the agricultural in- dustry has revived old and brought new farm_relief proposals to the attention of official Washington. Bumper crops, existing surpluses, low prices, lack of demand and markets, | scareity of credit, mortgages and un- paid bills, drought and grluhogrefl have increased the farmer's problem With Congress convening in Decem- ber and a presidential election next year, the situation grows more com- plex as debate revoiving around the Farm Board stimulates discussions on the equalization fee and the export debenture plans and price freezing propositions. ‘The American Farm Bureau Feder- ation yesterdey termed present farm legislation inadequate and reaffikmed its faith in the equalization fez. In contrast, the National Grange is again advocating ‘the export debenture, Repre- sentatives of both nationally known farm organizations have said adoption of these plans will be urged in the next Congress, Nye Favors Price Fixing. Senator Nye, Republican, North Da- kota, wants the Government to engage in & program of price fixing for two or three years, and has recommended a debt holiday for farmers. Somewhat the same thought is held by Repre- sentative Wright Patman, Democrat. Texas, who urged President Hoover to call a special session to set a minimum price on principal agricultural com- modities and crude ofl. Patman believes the minimum on cotton should be 20 cents a pound; wheat, $1 a bushel; corn, $1 a bushel, and ofl, $1 or more a barrel. At present the index of farm prices is at its lowest point since the Agricul- ture Department began keeping charts. Southwestern farmers were aroused when the Farm Board refused to with- hold stabilization wheat from domestic markets and now Southern cotton planters oppose any possible sale of the bogrd’s stabilization cotton to Germany. Hoover Against Debenture. President Hoover is on record against the export debenture, but has not stated his views on the equalization Calvin Coolidge, however twice vetoed a bill containing the latter provision. Mr. Hoover manifested his interest in the farmer’s plight recently by ask- ing the Farm Board to consider a new wheat sales policy. He also condemned speculators selling wheat short and promised farmers in Northwestern and Central States, ridden by drough® and grasshoppers, that Federal and State Tesources would be available. About $48,000,000 was loaned to fumm In the drought areas this Spring, about $15,000,000 is available for uu - 18 your home a safe place to leave your fur- nishings when you're away? If you have any misgivings you’d better consult us about our fireproof warehouse and other forms of pro- tection. 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Open daily from 7 am. Wil 9 pm. Drive out through Silve ing, turn nm on Coleaville Bike 'Rouu D Snls & miles from the District. — {ep1e WE KNOW HO fl‘ -V&”h nnnn &n’(holt heating job. BUDGET PAYMENTS 1t desired, %. H‘wD c M1 v “The Miilion | 13 mow in it | v ana St. N.W. 2700—Evenings. Olov. 0619 BASH DOORS BLINDS WINDOW FRAMES . FRANK KELLY, Inc. Gs. Ave. N.W, North 1343 R T LUMBER ‘ Northwestern States. Senate leaders are divided on the farm relief question. Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, progressive leader, favors the export debenture; Senator Watson, Indiana, the majority leader, the equalization fee. On the other hand, Senator Reed, ITepul;uIc]nn Pennsylvania, admj tion follower, has advocated al of the Farm' Board. bomlon OPPOSES LEAVING FILIPINOS TO FATE Senator Bingham Denounces Pro? posal for Independence as Self- ish Move of Special Interests. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 12.—Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, speaking last night at the annual banquet of the Army and Navy Legion of Valor, advo- cated retention of the Philippines, say- ing some public men were in favor of giving up the islands because their “products compete with some of ours and because (h!v are hard to defend in time of war,” being so far away. “These reasons,” he said, “are not worthy of America. They should not be the deciding reasons in the solution of the Philippine question. “There was little talk about inde- pendence uniil representatives of the sugar beet industry in Congress and of certain districts on the Western Coast began to demand an exclusion of Phil- ippine sugar and Filipinos. “To keep a few thousand Filipinos out of the Wast Coast, to gain & llmr market for cottonseed oil and linseed oil and to gain a small additional mar- ket for beet sugar, we are asked to sur- render the magnificent military fortress of Corregio, our spearhead in the East, to surrender our great naval base at Cavite, to lose prestige in Asia by giv- ing up something which we admit is hard to defend and actually to bring economic ruin and disaster upon 11,- 000,000 people. This would be an act of defeatism and selfishness unparalieled in American history.” TRUCK VANQUISHES BULL Motor-Mounted Toreador Victor in Two-Hour Combat. AUSTIN, Minn., August 12 ). —It might be said of Constable A. E. Jar- vis that he is a trucking toreador when occasion demands. The occasion demanded it yesterday when Robert Graves' bull broke loose and ruled the harnyard until Mr. Jar- vis arrived. He belittled Graves’ suggestion that the animal be shot. Instead, he climbed into a truck and for two hours charged the bull with the machine. Pinally, ex- hausted, the bull permitted the truck- ng toreador to bump him into a water tank Then barn. he was led peaceably into the B M’NARY HAS WHEAT PLAN | Senator Urges !'nrm Bolv to Sell 30,000,000 Bushels to China. SALEM, Oreg., August 12 (#).—Sena- tor Charies L. McNary has recommended to the Farm Board that it sell 30,000, 000 bushels of surplus American wheat at liberal t:rms to the Chinese govern- ment to relieve famine suffering and death in th> Yangtze Valley. Senator McNary telegraphed James C. Ston:, chairman of the Farm Board, urging the board to give serious study to the plan HOOVER COTTON IS BALED California Ranch Crop Is Early This Year by Three Weeks. August 12 is a AR g earlier than last year’s first product, it ‘was learned here yesterday. The cotton, long staple, Ml“l- pound bale. President part-owner of the ranch. Ku'n Oounty cotton ranches average & bale and a half to the acre. U RELIEF SCHEMES THE EVENING 'STAR, WASHINGTON, B. O, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1931. Retires After Half Century GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE EMPLOYE GETS RADIO. FTER 51 years of service to Uncl yesterday afternoon At a brief parting ceremony presented Nute with a bouquets of flowers. He was eulogized 1 troller General R. N. Elliott, who called Nute “a glutton for punishment” for having spent 45 years on claim work. Bv:np in Milwaukee, August 10, 185’ auditor of the Treasury July 7, 1880. Saving Service, second auditor's office and in the office of the auditor of the War Department, which branch subsequently became the General Accounting but has no children, and lives at 1474 Columbia road. Office. " He is married, Photo shows, center, left to right, Elliott, who presented the radio on behalf of the employes.—Star Staff General Accounting Office unit which reviews all service claims, retired He passed his seventy-fourth birthday Monday. handsome console model radio and numerous le Sam, Frank Ayres Nute, chief of the at the accounting office, fellow employes n a farewell address by Assistant Con- 7, Nute entered the office of the third Consecutively he served in the Life Nute and Assistant Controller General Photo. U. . GIVEN WHEAT INFORMATION PLAN Proposal of London Parley. Is | Put Before Officials as Olsen Returns. By the Associated Press. A proposal for American participa- | tion in an international wheat infor- | mation service is before the State De- partment for approval. ‘The plan was evolved at the recent | London meeting of exporting nations | convened by Canadian High Commis- sloner Ferguson in an effort to relieve the troubles of the world's wheat farm- | ers. TIts purpose 15 to supplement ex- isting information services on supply and demand in the hope that an ad- | justment between the two can be ef- fected. Nils A. Olsen, ch:‘(’o:&’;he gll"h:'-ulv ture Department's u, returned to his office this week after serving as one of the two American | delegates to the conference. Samuel | R. McKelvie, former member of the | Farm Board, was the other. Olsen remained in London for & meeting of a conference committee in July which drafted the proposal for the | information service. This was the only concrete result of the discussions par- | uclp-wd in by representatives from Argentina, Australia and Can- | m among others. Efforts to dz-‘ termine upon an export quota plan for the next year as a means of stabilizing wheat prices or to recognize the need | for mcreage reduction in strong resolu- | tions falled. Russia insisted upon a | pre-war export quota basis, while t] American delegates had no authority enter into such an agreement. ‘The proposal has been referred back to other interested governments for| action. Each probably would have l‘ permanent member of the informat service, which would collect facts und figures on acreage planted, cfop con- | ditions, prices and exports. American | participatidh probably will be presented before Congress also, as it would entail | expenditure of Government funds. ‘The preamble sets forth the world- wide depression as one of the major ills of wheat producers and cites overpro- duction as another disturbing factor. It may lead to more definite interna- tional co-operation to solve wheat diffi- culties. Meanwhile the Farm Board awalts receipt of a German offer for the| purchase of about 600,000 tons of wheat. No information has been received, al- though the offer was said to have been | presented to American negotiators. L TIRES O A Blow-out Is Like A Knock-out —It Stops You Short and Fast $1 down means an air-tight defense S. Royals will protect you from most road hazards and their low against trouble. U. prices and easy terms are certainly no blow to your pocketbook. 1: FREE MOUNTING Rents in the Dominican Republic are declining. 4 s Liberal (V) Allowance W On Your Old Tires BILBO COTTONPLAN STUDIED BY SOUTH Georgia Miller Starts Drive to Leave Third of Crop. Others Get Plea. August 12.—The | thought to sugges- | tions that it throw away a third of its 1931 cotton crop as one solution to the surpfus problem complicated by the Government's forecast of a 15,000,- | 000 instead of a 10,000,000-bale pro. duction this year. Varied comment came from official nd_unofficial sources on the proposal | of Gov. Bilbo of Mississippi that a third |of the 1931 cotton be left unpicked |in_the fields. D. A. Jewell, president of a cotton | mill at Chickamauga, Ga. followed Gov. Bilbo's suggestion by launching a campaign to cause cotton planters to plow up every third row of cotton. He said he had enlisted the support of Gov. Richard B. Russell, jr, of Georgia. Gov. B. M. Miller of Alabama sug- gested that Gov. Bilbo's proposal was “unsound, unwise and impractical of | application,” but added that he was giving his “wholehearted support to efforts of agricultural forces based on sound economics and wise farm man- agement to prevent a recurrence of present conditions.” Gov. Hunt of Arizona announced he planned a conference with Arizona cotton growers, marketing and financ- | ing associations to obtain their opinion on Gov. Bilbo's suggestion b g giv- ing his views. The suggestion was sent by Gov. Bllbo to Governors of all cotton-grow- ing States. Pantages Trial Delayed. LOS ANGELES, August 12 (#).— | The retrial of Alexander Pantages, wealthy theater man, on charges of criminally assaulting Eunice Pringle, 19-year-old dancer, was continued yes- | terday until November 2. Pantages was convicted two years ago and sentenced to serve 1 to 50 years in the State Penitentiary, but Was ‘nmed a new trial. LASTIC HOSIERY Fitted Professionally GIBSON’S 917 G St. N.W. YOUR OWN TER AT R COOLIDGE REFUSES STAND AS T0 BEER Ex-President, Reported About | to Favor Return, Has “Nothing” to Say. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, August 12—Former President Calvin Coolidge, arriving here from Northampton, Mass., to attend to- day’s monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the New York Life Insur- ance Co. has nothing to say—at this time, at least—on the subject of beer. Wall Street heard a fast-traveling rumor Tuesday afternoon that Mr. Cool- idge was about to come out in favor of the return of beer, as a measure to re- lieve unemployment and reduce the Federal treasury's deficit. So when the former Chief Executive arrived on New Haven train No. 21 from Northampton Tuesday night, this reporter was lurk- | ing in Grand Central Station to pop the beer question. “Nothing” For Answer. Accustomed to spotting ex-presidents in the midst of the common people, the reporter inserted himself into the crowd and edged alongside Mr. Coolidge as he walked through the station. Out of the tail of an eye that doesn't miss much in this world, and never has, Mr. Coolidge perceived that a_strange craft was ranging alongside. His eyes narrowed ever so slightly. The tight 1ips grew even tighter. His steps quick- ened. The reporter, coming squarely alongside, spoke distinctly “Mr. Coolidge, & moment, i you please! Mr. Coolidge, forging straight onward, eves straight front, replied without the slightest change of expression: othing whatever to say!” ‘But, if you please, Mr. Coolidge, there is a report going about that you | are about o declare yourself—" “Nothing to say e e yourself in favor e ot & word!” “Four per cent beer!"” Nothing!” “All right, Mr. Coolidge, that ends it!” Favors With a Grin. The ex-President, without pausing in his stride, turned his lean visage just a trifle toward the right and favored the reporter with a grin. In any cther person—from any one less distinguish- ed—one might have dubbed it a sly grin. But with Mr. Coolidge, so familiar over a period of years with repelling the raplers and even the broadswcrds of the press, it was taken for what it was— the gesture of good nature and amiabil- ity from the winner to the loser. The ex-President seemed to be in first rate health and as spry, if not ac- tually spryer, than when he was 5o coolly hclding down the job that Mr. Hoover is now sitting upon. Few per- | sons would take Mr. Coolidge to be a day over 50. ‘Copyrisht. - 8ince Spain became a republic auto- mobile sales there have dropped nearly | 931) | 50 per cent. Will Rogers .Y HILLS, Calif—Here is what the prohibition director de- cided about this pressed grape bricks you been read- ing so much about. “They will turn to wine if handled {;mpeer but t's not illegal to buy 'em. We would have to e that he tha That-a-gal Mabel, and I hope you get the Government loan. By the way & few sample bricks would reach me at, above address, only, mind you, for paving and heaving pu . I got a cat on my back fence I want to throw 'em at. Of course if they turn to wine before I hit him. I will be disappointed and humiliated beyond words, because the cat don't like wine. Send ¥ structions what to do in case J make up with the cat PITTMAN WILL PRESS SILVER CONFERENCE Returns From Orient With Views Strengthened That Meeting Should Be Held. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 12.—Still campaigning for an international silver conference, Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, Democrat, landed here yester- day after a three-month study of the silver question in the Orient. he hoped a world-wide conference would be called by the President of the United States. ““The price of Silver must come back in order to bring the foreign trade of more than half the world to normal,” he said Senator Pittman announced his in- tention to take a resolution to the Sen- |#te to ask the President again to invite the nations of the world to & silver to President Hoover by the Senate, failed to obtain executive action. A conference, the Senator told new: pnper men, would be directed to ana- lyze the causes of the present low price causes. He sald he believed an inter- national agreement to cease melting silver coins and dumping the metal on the market would correct the situation. Rail Salaries Cut 10 Per Cent. DAYTON, Ohio, August 12 (P).—A 10 per cent cut in salaries of all em- | ployes of the Cincinnati & Lake Erie operators, effective August 15, was an- nounced today by Thomas Conway, jr., president. Falling off in operating rev- ’ enues was given as the reason for the cuts. He said | conference. A previous resolution, given | of silver, with a view to removing the | Railway, except freight and passenger | LABOR REAFFIRMS PAY CUT OPPOSITION Statement Issued by Green After Council’s Study of Situation. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, August 12. —Wiliam Green, . president of the American Federation of last night issued a statement dzchfln( th | executive council in session here had | reaffirmed its opposition to wage cuts |and that the wage scale must be main- |tained to keep up the purchasing power of the masses. The statement was issued after the council had studied on the un- employment situation. It said: “The Executive Council of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor reiterated and re-mrmed’olu original position in op- attempted reductions in wages. It is firmly of the opinion that the distressing unemployment situation can be overcome only through the de- velopment of the purchasing power of | the masses of the people to its maxi- mum capacity. The facts are over- ‘whelmingly in favor of the position as- ::l:oed b':;'h the“smefluéx Federation of T, e lespread unemployment which prevails throughout the Nation uduewalu:korhmmpo'u upon the part of the masses of the people. Purchasing Power Lost. “The purchasing power of more than 6,000,000 wage earners has been totally destroyed because they have been forced into unemployment. There must be added to this large number many mil- lions more who are vnrkln{ part timel only, and who are dependen! Residences, Office Fine 160 Residencel, Stores, COLD FACTS ABOUT WASHINGTON’S FIRST A/R COOLED APARTMENT At Connecticut Avenue and Klingle Bridge is W Seventy feet below the avenue, in the heart of Klingle in the side of the building. 32,000,000 cubic feet of cool sir are drawn into that op-nm[ every hbur. Seven huge fans force it through air shafts into every corner of the Air is completely changed in the apartment section every ffteen minutes. ° r will keep The Kennedy-Warren about 10 degrees cooler on hot Summer days That this than other dwellings throughout the city has been definitely proved by ac readings.* These readings were taken at the same hour places in Washington for twenty days. prove that the temperature at The Kennedy-Warren averages 614 degre wages. mt will continue just as e purchasing power of the the rests below and ity to produce manu- unempl will never be relieved untii wages are built up so that men and women ean consume. executive council commends ighly those employers and own- ers of industry wnn aré subscribed to nited structure, other hand, the council con- demns, in a melt viznrom way, the action of these taken advantage ol human distress and human suffering to impose and force wage reductions of the protest of the workers involved as well as those OWNERS uest, listing of your property. WHITEFORD & JAWISH, INC. 236 Southern Bldg. National 1800 WRECKING Buildings, Stores in 4-Block Area —Pa. Ave. NW. thw-n S(I and 4th (John Marshall Place), Extending North to D St. N.W. (Indiana Ave.). Office Buildings, Etc. Carefully Dismantled Materials at Sacrifice Prices opening thermometer ch day at this and three other The results are graphically compared below to cooler than that at Wisconsin Avenue and Grant Road, the highest point in the District of Columbia: 9 degrees cooler than that at Connecticut Avenue and Sedgwick Street, and 1174 degrees cooler than that at the United States Weather Bureau. Note also that during the recent hot spell the temperature readings at The Kennedy-Warren were constantly Lolov 80 degrees. These are cold facts that mean comfortable Summers to those who live at The Kennedy- Warren. Jury 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 N TEMPERATURE READINGS AT U.S.WEATHER BUREAU /" TEMPERATURE READINGS AT 'WISCONSIN AVE AT GRANT ROAD Cu! p We invite you to inspect The Kennedy-Warren now, while the most desirable apartments are available, and permit us to show you the many other advantages of W gton’s first mir- While an ample staff is ready to_serve you at all times, a leisurely inspection Adams 9600 and making an sppointment. *4ll temperatures givem Washington's First Air Cooled Apartment taken from inside thermom- eter readings. Affidavit as to the accuracy of these read- ings is Office, Avenue. 3133 Co m file at the Rental cticut Ve KENNEDYMMREN