Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1931, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, ALY INGREASES | TARFFON WHEAT Farmers Aided by Measure Assuring Price of Over $1.50 a Bushel. By Cable to The Star. | ROME, Italy, August 20.—An increase | ©f 25 per cent in the Italian tariff on | wheat and corn, announced yesterday, | brings the duty cn each of these prod- ucts to $1.07 per bushel, thus assuring ain farmers of prices of more than | 150 per bushel for each of these| products. This measure, which is hailed by the Fascists as an indication of their will- ingness to help th2 farmers out of their | difficulties, is designed to assist those farmers who were spurred on to plant | grain by Il Duce's famous “battle of | the wheat” and who now find them- | selves in a desperate fix because of drought and low grain prices. { The battle of the grain, which caused | many Italian farmers to plant wheat on | soil not adapted to grain raising, is| mnow in the doldrums. After a bumper crop of 256,000,000 bushels in 1929, the | crop fell last year to 218,000,000 bushels. This year due to drought the crop is expected to be far below last year's. The fiscal importance of the new tariff is not to be overlooked. Last year Italy consumed 92,000,000 bushels of wheat more than ib produced and the tariff returns at 86 cents per bushel amounted to $79,000,000. Even though no more wheat is imported this year the government earnings would amount under the new tariff to $19,000,000 and bring the total to $98,000,000. Bread prices, which were dramatically slashed by 10 per cent some months ago, are expected to react to this measure. (Copyrisht, 1931) CLARK CASE EXPECTED T0 GO TO JURY TODAY Special Prosecutor to Argument—Says Murder Motive May Remain Mystery. Complete By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., August 20— Before night, a jury was expected to | have begun delibérations in the case of | David H. Clark, former deputy district attorney, charged with the slaying of Herbert F. Spencer and Charles H Swam Bosporus AMBASSADOR'S DAUGHTER SWIMS 19 MILES IN 5 HOURS. i W 4 MISS ANITA GREW. ISTANBUL, Turkey.—Photo shows pretty, trim and athletic Miss Anita Jrew, 22 years old, daughter of the | American Ambassador, Joseph C. Grew. | N RAL RATE RSE Producer Declares Substitute of Bituminous. | By the Associated Press. i Coal producers, continuing their at- | tack on the railroads’ proposal for a | 15 per cent increase in freight rates, | told the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion teday it would accelerate the use of substitute fuels which pay less Tevenus to the carriers Walter A. Jones, secretary of the Central Pennsylvania Coal Producers’ Association, testified any increase in rates would work to the disadvantage of bituminous coal through substitution of oil, electricity and gas. Earlier, Ohio coal interests testified the method prescribed by the railroads for increasing rates on Eastern coal would work to the disadvantage of | Northern producers and carrlers as compared with Southern flelds and lines. | Jones presented a mass of statistics showing the increased use within recent | years of substitutes for bituminous coal. | He estimated hydro-clectric power alone in New England and Middle Atlanti | States displaced 6,237,000 tons of coal | in 1930 Pointing out that freight transporta- ;uon charges constitute about 58 per |cent of the price of soft coal, Jones testified the substitution of other fuels | is “growing prodigiously.” The Pennsylvania operators, he said, believed en increase of 15 per cent in rates on bituminous wculd range from |35 to 75 cents additional cost per ton and would “be more than cnough to spur consumers of coal to further utili- | zaticn of substitute fuels and sources of | energy.” He recommended that if the commis- sion decided an increase of some kind | 1s necessary, it would be better to ad- | vance all rates a flat number of cents | per ton. A. H. Boden, representing the West- | ern Pennsylvania Coal Traffic Associa- tion, supported the position taken by Jones with a number of exhibits show- ing the effect the proposed increases would have on coal rates. 'HORNET CAUSES MAN T0 LOSE AUTO CONTROL Frederick Isinger of Washington and Grandmother Hurt in Ac- | 1 | Fuels Will Take Place ' 1 | | COAL MEN SEE PERIL [epenes arms Showered by Asama, Frequent Erupter By the Associated Press. TOKIO, August 20.—The vol- cano Asama, near Karuizawa, be- gan erupting with more than usual violence today. It is a fre- quent performer. The eruption was followed by ashes and some rock, which broke ‘telephone wires and was reported d.lmurl.n' crops. A mountain climber from Tokio, Who was near the summit when the eruption started, was severely injured by falling rock. PUBLIC TO SEE NEW AIRSHIP NEXT WEEK 1 Dirigible Akron to Be Trun- dled Out of Hangar Twice at “Reahearsal.” By the Assoctated Press. _AKRON, Ohio, August 20.—Akron's airport will be open to the public when the virtually completed Navy Zeppelin, | | | ! | | of its dock next Monday, Goodyear- | Zeppelin Corporation officials {nounced today. On the occasion of the first flight, tentatively scheduled for the latter part of next week, the fenced-in area com- prising the greater portion of the air- | spectators will be permitted to seek vantage points in the parking ground, | the Administration Building and on the neighboring hilisides, all of which will Monday’s event is in the nature of a final dress rehearsal, with the ground crew of 250 substituted for mechanical devices in the belief that they will as- sure safe landing on the date of the first flight. ‘The Zeppelin will be taken out of its hangar a third of the way, nose first, then returned and backed out a third ‘The exact day of the initial flight wil be announced 24 hours in advance, but will be subject to change in event of unfavorable weather. The three-hour ;fllwhl may be confined to a eruising area of less than 50 miles. including Lieut dahl, his crew, the Navy Inspection poration’s engineers. Akron, is twice trundled part way out | an- | port will be closed to the public, but | permit a view of the maiden launching. | of the way, through another door, tail | first. Approximately 100 men will be aboard, | Comdr. C. E. Rosen- | Board and the Goodyear-Zeppelin Cor- | | FLORDA FREGHT RATES LOWERED |Reduced on Potatoes and | Other Vegetables; Fruit Schedule Unchanged. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion today ordered revision downward | |of freight rates on potatoes and veg- | | etables from Florida to destinations | throughout the country. Previous findings on rates on oranges {and grapefruit from Florida to Eastern points were found to be propsr. Today's opinion was a suppliemental action on a petition by Florida railroad com- | missioners complaining that rates on | that State's products were too high. | The previous report covered only or- | anges and grapefruit and the com- mission announced at the time that | further consideration would be given vegetable rates. Melons and berries were included in the issues in the case, but the com- mission was unable to find a basis for “comprehenive findings with re- | spect to these commodities” and said they would not be considered further. ‘The commission instructed the rail- roads to put into effect vegetable rates based on percentages of first-ciass rates in the South to most of the country. Commissioners Mahaffie, Eastman and Farrell dissented ifrom the majority sent on the claim the Florida rates still would be too high as compared with Southwest- | ern rates, while Mahaffie took the stand | railroad Trevenues would be materiall reduced at a time when this should not be done. Farrell did not write a dissenting opinion. Florida vegetables move extensively throughout the country, although ap- | proximately two-thirds go to Eastern points. ! In these days of radio, teletype and telegraph it is difficult for a person to get “lost,” the chances being about 10 to 1 against complete disappearance. | AUGUST 20, 1931. Still Growing—Adother New Store ISAAC CYMES e 2205 I St. N.-W. . Phone West 2875 THERE'S NO .USE. TRYING —to find any other stores where you get as much for your mqney as you do in our markets. We carry the highest quality stocks; render the most complete home de- livery service: extend credit; maintain cash and carry prices; and you will be glad to permanently change over to the Usited after a trial order from one of our stores. MEATS LEG LAMB Ib. 3lc LAMB CHOPS 1b. 45c FRYING CHICKENS Ib. 37¢ Smoked Sausage...... Smoked Hams. .. . Telephone NAtional 6728 Home Dressed LIPTON'S rvdrevoes b 32c _CAPBRERES S - TEA | Tvesday morning she swam the Bos- porus from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmcra, a_distance of approximately | Crawford, political leaders. Special State Prosecutor W. J. Ford was to complete the argument today. cident Near Great Cacapon. Sliced Bacon.. .. vevensvwenss.. . 35¢ Clark is on trial now only for the| Spencer slaying. His attorneys have | announced they will ask that the | charge involving the killing of Craw- | ford be dismissed, if Clark is acquitted. Both men were slain in Crawford's Hollywood real estate office last May pleaded _self-defense. i 1 20, Ciark Ford yesterday charged the true mo- tive of the killing of Spencer and Crawford was still a mystery and might always be. | Court adjourned yesterday afternoon | at the request of Ford, who said h(" was “having trouble with his false teeth slipping.” He had been talking to the | Jury two hours. CLOSED DUCK SEASON | OPPOSED BY WARDEN Maryland Official Also Against Reduction of. Hunting to 30-Day Period. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., August 20—Op- | position to the suggestion that the | Pederal Government either close the | ‘wild fow] season of 1931-1932 entirely or | permit a 30- Open Season 'Wwas ex- pressed yesterday by E. Lee LeCompte, | State game warden Pressure is being brought on members of the United States Department of Agriculture because of the extreme drought which has prevafled in the great breeding areas of wild fow] in the Northwestern section of United ada, Mr. LeCompte said. As State game' warden of Maryland, he asserted, he wished to go on record as oppesing en entire closed season or open season in any one month. | He suggested instead an open season | for the hun 1 fr i November 16 to January 15, | { Canaday, 19 miles. She entered the water at 4:40 am. and reached Seaglio Point at 9:50 am. It is believed that this is the first time any one has swam the entire length of the Bosporus. ————e THO HONTEDAFTER WAVE HT BEACH One of Atiantic City Missing Finds Way Home—Min- ister Unreported. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., August 20. —Ths list of missing bathers reported to the beach life guards as having prob- ably been lost during the unusually high tides which lashed the strand yester- dey was reduced to two today, when one returned to the home where he had been staying. He is Homer Pry, 17, of Carnegie, Pa. | Pry has been staying with his mother Mrs. Prank Fry at the home of Melvin | Alkinson, Pleasantville. He left there yesterday morning, saying he was going in bathing in Atlantic City. When he did not return home his mother became alarmed and reported him mi Theer seems to be some d. one of the others reported mis: drowned. A woman reported at South Carolina avenue beach tent d ing the height of the beach disturbance yesterday, that her son, Rev. John W 25, pastor of the Presbyterian 'Church, Baltim gone in bathing and could r cated. The minister was at the b for the day only, and as n HAGERSTOWN, August 20. — Two | | persons were injured, cne of them a Washingtonian, when a hornet which | bad gotten inio the car caused Fred- | erick Isinger, Washington, to lose con- | trol of the car near Great Cacapon, W. {Va. yesterday. The driver sustained | cuts about his hands from fiying glass and Miss Ama Yost, Berkeley Springs, W. Va. received three cracked ribs. Isinger's grandmother escaped injury. The car went over a steep embankment when it went out of control while Isinger was endeavoring to hit the hor- | net, which buzzed about his head. BRICK TOSSING CHARGED AGAINST WIFE IN SUIT| By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, August 20—Charging that his | wife “threw his clothes out of the house, tossed a brick through the wind- shield of his car and then left him," Prederick George Hart of Washington | filed suit for divorce from his wife, Jes- sie May Hart of Fairland, Md., in the Circult Court for Arlington County to- ay. Hart declared in his petition that his wife “willfully and voluntarily deserted and abandoned him” on July 6. 1924, They were married in the Capital on January 17, 1910. It is expected that the suit will be presented before Judge Walter T. Me- | Carthy at the October term of court. Hart is represented by Attorney H. A. Shockey of Falls Church. SUES FOR $25,000,000 NEW YORK, August 20 (#%.—Charles 7 former broker, indicted for e of the mails, began ac- | n y in Supreme Court to re- er $25000,000 he claimed to have been “fraudulently” obtained by his for- | MARY NOLAN ARRESTED Wilson Charge of Not Paying Servants. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., August 20 (#). —Mary Nolan, motion picture actress, the former Imogene Wilson of the New York musical comedy stage, was ar rested by deputy sheriffs here yesterday on a charge of non-payment of wages to employes. She pleaded not guilty before s | Beverly Hills justice of the peace and | was released under $300 bond for trial September 11. Miss Nolan returned recently from New York and her representative an- | nounced she had signed a motion pic- | Former Imogene Faces | | ture contract. Records at the Justice Court charge | she failed to pay wages totaling $355 to a cook, chauffeur, nurse, maid and musician. BRIGGS LEFT $90,067 NEW YORK, August 20 (#).—Approv- al by Surrogate Q'Brien of a temporary | administrator’s accounting on the estate | of Claire A. Briggs yesterday showed | the cartoonist left a total estate of $90,067. The accounting revealed that $18,000 had been paid to Mrs. Marle C. Briggs, who established herselfl as the car- toonist’s common law widow After payment of legal administration and funeral expenses the balance now stand: at $50,169. The net estate, after pay- | ment of all debts, is to be turned over to Briggs' first Wife, now Mrs. Ruth Owen Trotter of Minneapolis, as execu- | trix of his will. Firemen Open Convention. WESTON, W. Va, August 20 (Spe- cial) —The third annual convention’ of ! the West Virginia State Volunteer Fire- men’s Association opened here today | and will end Saturday. C. J. Powell, Well Folks— Final Reductions Are in full swing now—get that new suit, hat, etc., at the lowest | prices since 1920! Oh yes, shop| Friday, we close again all day Saturday. Wi ” Cadio Jot Final Reductions! $30 WOOLEN SUITS $1 75 Xtra Pants All $16.50 Featherweight Suits | Open a Budget Charge Accoumt—Pay Y Cash; Balance 10 Weekly or | 5 Semi-Monthly Payments ! 1744 PENNA. AVE. 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Czechoslovakia 20 (#)—Broadway was than was the ., when th yor Honored at Oper- wds_ filled on the perfc of the operetta “Die Flede in honor of Mayor James New York When the mayor b box Theater, with American colors, the applause ws thunderous. With him was Bue meister Beckes, and after the second act a toast to the mayor's health was proposed from the stage He spplauded th: seemed to enjoy the He went back to his hotel as scon as the operetta was ended and retired carly was . e Two Groups on Cruise. ‘Two organizations will take the moon- - ht cruise down the Potomac tonight the City of Washington. The Carroll Council, Knights of Columbus, will hold an outing for the benefit -oi 1t5 sick and relie! fund, in charge of G. 8. Herring, and about 200 Vaeth Unit, by Miss Katherine | prok actors heartily and | coal | ther has been heard from the woman, it is beilleved, he may have returned to Baltimore iast night There seems to b= no doubt, however that Eugene Beaurle, 17, Paterson Higt School athlete, was drowned been staying at the Knickerboc with his mether, Mrs. E. Beaurle his three sisters. He went in b and during the height of the bea phenomenon was seen struggling in water May Rise From Waves » Un combers bance the 1 caused by a quake but the absnce were due to their crests that the A always subject to disturbances He pointed out, ho never qui and Often Outrun thousand tlehales “But 1 believe, in all due ence of waves—a condit used by one or more waves running after each other with different wave periods "It is only natural that there should have been a succession of waves, as was ported at Atlantic City. There may beve been several waves running one after another, vach with a different period of break, When one tends to overtake another and their crests meet, a great wall of water is bulit up. This may have hapyened several times in in this members of succession before the waves finally sot- | back to # more .nghsly normal and illegal” means in gaining control extensive mining properties once owned by him Complaint and defendants, _including scher, philanthropist Maurice Heckscher, n; T. F. Cole, international reilroad authority; former State Senator George F. Thompson, 8s attorney for the Heckschers, Banca Commerciale Italia summons named 17 August Heck- financier; “COALESCENCE OF BREAKERS” THOUGHT SURF MYSTERY CAUSE Overtaking Each Other. Officials of the Wes Coast and Geode! Georgetown Obse were awaiting wit ports of séismic o ances that may for the extraor ther Bureau, the Survey and the meanwhile interest re- fc disturb- Possible C: T other storm at on the : posstble_causes. along the coast of ering on the At- g of a reef out in could have been re- ies, referring to discounted the but said no records ing a storm of the %0 agitate the mer as the huge t that the waves subsided a short period of agitatio: —was wonder to the scien- emoved the explana- ecord the slightest shocks face, had no Tecor: however small, here been the slight- ce within thousands of sald, their instruments vould have picked it up and recorded it Similarly, officials at the Weather Bureau were af a loss to explain the source of the fatal waves in s hurri- With their many quick communication, officials sald, 1t is virtually impossible that any such storm could escape notice and cubsequent reporting. 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