Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1931, Page 5

Price for Straight Climbs to 16 Cents a Gallon in Midcontinent. By the Associated Press. Ol OITY, August 25.—As for crude oil crept upward n at least today, the of two citles of the mi flected the changing started upward al: ‘With overgrou major and minor oil operators con- to meet the demand price of $1 line ontinent area re- a barrel set by Gov. W. H. Murray as the minimum re contingent upon reopening Oklahoma wells. Others added their voices yesterda: to the dozen or more operators clamor- barrel or close t | for oil at $1 gt figure. East mil had a flat price of 68 cents. Increases Announced. In Oklahoma City five distributors of announced 1-cent increases in the retail price, fixing white United motor_grade at 16 cents a. gal- lon, and Shell Petroleum and Standard of Indiana announced an end to their ¥ war” in St. Louis. This meant a return to higher prices in effect last April, and a cost to the consumer of 129 cents for standard white gas. In both cities the midcontinent shut- down, effective under martial law in Oklahoma and Easj Texas and under a decree of the Public Service Commis- sion in two Kansas pools, was given as the basic reason for the increases. Oklahoma City purchasers of gaso- line have had the retail price boosted 4 cents, 1 cent at a time, since the cost of crude oil at the wells ranged upward from 10 cents a barrel to 22 cents less than s month ago. Incendiarism Continues. In Texas, on the dawn of the date set by the Railroad Commission for a hear- to determine the extent to which the conservation law shall be AFirtbated.to opponens of the ol ent shutdown mmmmdotm !h: burning or attempted elgh structures. The last one, last night. bout & mile from general e of the National Guard invoked activities through brigade headquarters yesterday firing at_the tents of the Guardsmen. there were armed with sawed- off 5 hnu&eflllmy‘-mrv':dmfi“t of S: huge supply of overground in that area at the start of the , only about 2,600,000 barrels is estimated at left. The amount was 3,500,000 barrels late last week. 28-SHIP SALE CONFIRMED Portland-California Steamship Co. Purchaser of Fleet. Huge Buddta Image Planned. TOKIO.—A reinioficed concrete of Buddha, in & siiting posture, feet high and on -hose lap could stand 3,000 people, is being 35 an addition to Tokio’s attractions. In the holiew ioterior would be displeyed of all the various mwma ‘worship conditions and 'd also. cheaply bought crude oil in| ind lgfll'l(e getting low, both| | MRS. DAISY PRICE, | Wife of Lieut. Comdr. Georgs D. Price, | who was pushed or fell to her death THE EVENING DRINKING IS PROBED INPRICE MYSTERY ’Police Assert Guests Tell Conflicting Stories of Fatal Party. By the Associated Press. story window of the Alex- ander Hamilton Hotel early Sunday. In a dying statement Mrs. Price. a bride of six weeks, told Assistant Dis- trict_Attorney Walter Schiller. “It was my Fault” Burton Templeton, another at the hotel, said he saw Mrs, Price go through the window. He ran downstairs and asked her if she fell or was thrown. Templeton told police she said she was thrown and when he asked who did it, she replied: “I'd rather not say.” Allen McGinn, head of the police homicide squad said: “I am not at all satisfled with the conflicting stories told by persons at the drinking party in Mrs. Price's room.” A naval board of inquiry, the cor- oner’s office and the Federal prohibi- tion administrator were making sepa- rate investigations. The_coroner's autopsy surgeon, Dr. A. A. Berger, disposed of a theory that | CHANGE IN RED CROSS POLICY LL POSSIBLE IF PUBLIC INSISTS Organization, Dependent Upon American People, May Liberalize Its Attitude on “National Calamities” and U. S. Funds. Note.—This fs the second of two ar- vial o P the American: Red Cross. BY REX COLLIER. m!;_xmamplemm & “national calam- If it is, critics of the Red Cros: ‘gue, why doesn't the Red Cross do some- thing about it? ‘The charter of the organization au- | thorizes it to “mitigate the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods and other national calamities.” Con- | servative central committees of the Cross always have interpreted the phrase “national calamities” in a nar- TOW sense. That is, they have construed the term to mean only the sort of dis- asters specifically named by Congress. Additions to the list, under this inter- pretation, have included earthquakes, fir.ut explosions, hurricanes and the e. Payne Set Policy in 1928, With the approval of the central commit e, Judge John Barton Payne, chairman of the Red Cross, issued in 1928 a “statement concerning Red Cross policles in disaster relief.” In addition to outllning the general func- tions and scope of the organization, the | statement said: magnitude that it is impossible for the governmental or private agencies nor- mally expected to deal with conditions of distress in the countries affected to ‘| meet even the most urgent and basic demands of the situation.” More Liberal Policy Possible. It was under this authority that the Red Cross dispatched $100,000 to China last week for flood victims. The Amer- ican donation was comparatively small, considering the magnitude of the Chi- nese disaster. Is there a possibility that policies of the Red Cross may be further ilberalized to embrace unemployment relief? If the answer to this question had to be given today, it undoubtedly would be an unequivocal “No.” Six months from widespread that other relief “agencies could not handle it, the answer might be less positively negative. As a matter of fact, the national Red Cross already has made some conces- sions. While the Central Committee still adheres closely to its policy of with- holding national funds from unemploy- ment relief, it has let it be known that of 1 being met, ehapters may participate in community ‘The Red Cross thus looks upom the existing economic simultaneous local unemployment prob- udvisable. In-u. view of the situation as conditiéns g:;md disasters. Besides, President Hoover has set l:g a special, independent body to deal wit the Winter. Since Mr. Hoover is honorary now, if distress were to have become so | hewd of the Red Cross, it would seem he agency ment of the Gifford Commission, is seen as a step to forestall Judge Payne has . “It has adhered to a policy abstaining from national reliel in s e Commif be exhibiting decidedly liberal trends of late. ‘There are certain formidable draw- backs to any stretching of policy to cover unem 5 ol the SRt tne ety satdsy o it pressut | very na of present economic disaster is w thet the “Amerjcan plan” of relief, as distin. from the guished European govern- | mental plan, immediately runs into| difficulties. in extending relief.” disaster as a series of , for which chapter assistance is o Even if it saw fit to amend w worse, the organization would be by its ban on ‘“economic | economnc relief a vast sum would bave to be placed at its sum run- well into nine res. The pros- | of raising such a sum by voluntary subscription at the t time is just about less, A section of the people to whom the Red Cross crdina- rily goes for financial of emergency is itself disaste: suj in time e lems of economic distress next has no intention of calling on that us a national body. Appoint- indeed, r for which rel renewed ! The alternative to private 1f the Red Cross were to take over | good Besp ey ever went 5o far as priate them. It is_the Red | informed persons that would have weakened in tion is dependent upon of the American le. will would fatal, d Cross must ‘watcher. Y| Each of the emblems, he explained, | contains infkr a party in her San Francisco poison liquor killed Mrs. Price. No | apartment. . | trace of poison was found at an autopsy. i R | " The last person known to have been | | in Mrs. Price’s room, Inspector McGinn { | said, 18 Lieut. D. R. Downer, fr., a young aviator in Price's command Us Vs aboard the air craft carrier Lexington. | With other Navy officers and their NFLYERS MEDALS = e Price’s room until a late hour. A bell boy said he left a half hour before Mrs. Price’s plunge. | Polando and Boardman For- get Port Declaration, but Inspector Does Not. .‘ch.%unn o!mlnlptcton Charles Dil.lfim e was_investigating s it Mn<filuhdl'hlm¢wmtflhh another woman. Comdr. Price was not at the as he was on duty on the Price said he believed a guest at the party or a person hiding in the room had attempted to attack his wife, and | in seeking to escape, she fell from the window. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 25.—During the official welcome today of the city to| Russell Boardman and John Polando, non-stop New York-to-Istanhul fiyers, a United States customs inspector was | greeting in equally offizial manner the bejeweled trophies brought home by the airmen. ‘The trophies, diamond-studded em- blems of esteem presented to the fiyers by the Aerial Club of Turkey, adorned | the breasts of the day's heroes when they transferred from the liner Excal- 1ibur to the tug Macom, when they rode { up Lower Broadway to City Hall, while they were being received by | Mayor McKee and diring the Advertis- | Ing Club luncheon in their honor. ut these on-stop cers- | monies, Customs Officer James V. Mc- | Cabe tagged along as a non-stop U. S. EMPLOYES TO HEAR TWO CAPITAL LEADERS Representative Lehlbach Is Slated With M. H. McReynolds to Speak at Seattle Meeting. Representative Prederick Lehlbach of New Jersey, chairman of the House Civil Service Committee, and William . Mgl , chairman of the Per- Classification Board, will be the speakers at the eleventh bi- | e convention of the National Fed- eration of Federal Employes, which | meets in Seattle, Wash., September 7. Both men are outstanding authorities | the | o0 questions bearing on the -fllneo!. ent workers, and their remarks | are to have a strong influence on ies formulated at the conven- | The local unions of the federation | will send 24 delegates to the conven- tion, which will remain in session until | all business has been compieted. . sonnel a four-carat blue diamond, Boardman and FORD MUST PAY $10,000 | Auto Magnate Loses Suit in Di-| verting Stream. | CAMBRIDGE, Mass., August 25 1M.“ | —Henry Ford, automobile magnate, and | yesterday was ordered to pay damages | of $10,000 and permanently cease from | diverting the waters of Hop Brook on | his Wayside Inn proj jes in Sudbury | 1 down in Middle- | sex Buperior Equity Court. | Joseph L. Sturtevant, who owns an| | estate near Ford's, filed the suit, charg- | | ing that the mills and dams at the Ford estate had reduced the flow of water in | the brook and damaged his estate. | last November. { William J. Rahill of New York is the | president of the bank. The institution, | as , listed assets of $22,203.- | 492, $1,000,000 tal, |m of $3,348.200 other demand liabilities of . | situation that demanded a revision of .| United States and indirectly touching “There are situations, other than the | natural disasters referred to, such as| strikes, business depressions, failure of crops and other forms of unemploy- | ment and economic maladjustment, which may cause widespread suffering. These situations are not ‘national ca- ToF Wotch reaponmibilty 15" mposed.on for which responsibility is on | the Red Cross.” | Cirsumstances, can alter | policies. A policy which met the needs of 1928 may be inadequate for 1930 or 1931. ‘When Judge Payne issued his on “failure of crops” in 1928 he could not foresee the t crop failure of 1930, due to the fht. “Home Sweet Home" however, This was & new policy. Here was an emergency directly affecting one-third of the area of the all the country. It was not famine in a strict sense, but without doubt it was much more than a crop failure or a farm problem. So it came about that the governing | committee of the Red Cross took a defl- | nite step in the direction of liberalizing its interpretation of the organization's | charter. The ruling was made that the the organization stepped forward an met the emergency with customary effi- clency. ‘There is no doubt about the author- ity of the American Red Cross to send to foreign fields funds which it holds | from certain classes of domestic suf- ferers. 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