Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1931, Page 12

EMBARGO ON GRAIN CALLED BY IOWANS €00 Farmer Elevators Asked to Stop Sales Until Prices Recover. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa, September 9.— The Iowa Farmers-Grain Dealers’ As- sociation is proposing to its 600 farmer| elevator companies that they make no gales of corn and oats until higher prices return. Fifteen cents for oats and 30 cents for corn, leaders of the association assert, are not proper re- turns. W. H. Thompson, secretary of the association, cutlined the aim of the movement vesterday whnen he said that both the old and new crops would be held back “until prices reach a level where the farmer can at least pay the overhead and get through the coming ‘Winter.” Urged in Other States. Leaders of the movement said that grain dealers’ associations in Nebraska, Tllinois. Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Minne- and North and South Dakota d _to co-operate. and the rnors of Oklahoma iling ofl production an indication of what be accomplished with products he grain-producing States. to farmers in withholding on_of the Iowa warehouse 1so been suggested. At the same time a delegation of farmers planned to call on Gov. Dan Turner next Friday to urge him to attempt to set the price of corn at 60 cents a bushel from the day of their interview until January 1, when it would be fixed at 65 cents. A petition recommending such & move was adopted by Iowa farmers at & recent meeting at New- ton, Iowa. Ask Governor to Act. The Newton delegation would have the Governor issue a proclamation de- claring the price of corn for the State and calling upon every owner of corn to hold it until the desired price is secured. Meanwhile other movements designed to help the farmers were under way. They included a suggestion by a group of Sioux Rapids business and dturalists in a petition to Gov. er that he call a special session of the Legislature to enact laws to pre- vent the waste of Iowa soil through X ng and the sale of grain &nd hogs at “wasteful prices.” 6-FOOT GIRL SEEKING FILM FAME CAPTURED 15-Year-01d Whose Letter Brought Her a Manager, Returns Home With Parents. ated Press YORK, September 9.—Emily 1. 15 years old, 6 feet tall, weight who hoped to become a left for her home in New today accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence he was found in a hotel by detec- registered as Miss Betty Marshall A car-old youth, who, police say, is a student at the University of Cali- fa, was arrested later and held as from justice for the Massa- authorities. He gave his name Bernstein. police said, wrote to a mo- nagazine asking for the een stars. Bernstein an- er letter, furnished her with addresses and promised to drive m the West Coast to see her. ijved Monday in New Bedford, went to the Grinnell Summer home, at Richfield Farms, and met the girl. Po- lice say he told her she had a mar- oice and suggested he try to get her an appointment with a pro- ducer. Bernstein said Miss Grinnell sug- gested the New York trip, and he took her along. She was given an audition, he said, with a screen produoer. TWO HELD MURDERED Physician Describes Fatal Injuries of Red Ba N. J., Victims, RED BANK. N. J. September 9 (&), v W. Hartman, Monmouth ician, announced yesterday Finn, 49, and Philip o were found dead in East Keansburg . had been slain. Hartman said one of the men d from concussion of the brain and the other as a result of a beating Both men lived in New York, where they were employed as night watchmen. n State Railways have just ogram_of extensions. 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