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SOVIET BUYING BAN INU. S. HELD ALBI Unofficial View Hen;e of Plan fo Curtail Its Purchases Called Political Move. 1 The Soviet government's action in: formally adopting a policy to buy no! goods in the United Stales which it} can obtain elsewhere i3 viewed by som2 | students of the situation in Washing- ton as meaning little or nothing. so fax as actual trade between the nations is ! concerned. Its chief significance, asi these cbiervers analyzed it. was its in- | dication that Soviet officials, facing im- ponding failure in_parts of their po- litically important five-year indusiriali- zation program, were laying the foun- dations for a political alibi to impress | the workers at home. That view is unofficial, garded as authoritative. Government officials declined to comment. It was recalled. however. that Rusian pur- chases in the United States have been confined for many months virtually to commodities which can be had. for one Teason or another, nowhere else. If such purchases are reduced in future months, the real reason. it is thought, will be that current needs have been met or the projects of the five-vear plan for which they might have been desired have had to be curtailed. Machinery Bought in U Soviet agencies bought about $140.- 000.000 of American goods in 1930 and sold about $30.000,000 of Russian prod- ucts in this country. The purchases were chiefly of manufactured articles | required to carry out the five-year plan. They included especially such Ameri- can products as tractors, machine tools and other industrial equipment. Trac- tors in the quantities desired and of the needed size can be had nowhere else. These particular purchases have de- clined this year. but that was to be ex- pected as the Russian requirements were more and more nearly met. Much of the industrial development contem- plated in the five-year plan is based on plans drawn by American engineers. Those plans require American equip- ment but is re- ng of U. S. Tariff Noted. The Russian policy for years has made it necessary to buy as much as possible in countries where the market for Soviet products is best, and where credits can be obtained at the most favorable terms. Tre United States has been neither a large market for Russian goods, it is pointed out, nor has the Soviet government been able to obtain very favorable credit terms, either as to amount or time, in this country. The citing of unfavorable credit con- ditions in the United States and of the application of the forced-labor clause | in the tariff act by the Treasury De- | partment, wbich threatens to bar Rus- sian products, were pointed to by ob- servers here as clear evidence of the political intent of the enunciation of the Ruscian policy. Very little of the Russian products sold in this country, | it was remarked, has been affected by { that clause. European Credits Near End. Meanwhile, as evidence of the im- pending failure of parts of the five- year plan in Russia, on the success of which the Soviet government has laced a large stake of its prestige, it gfls been observed that the unfavor- able balance of its trade reached about $75.000.000 in the first half of this year, and that it had a large unfavor- able’ balance for 1930. It has been overcoming that difficulty” with large credits in Great Britain, Germany and | Ttaly. Those credits, however. must be nearing exhaustion, and it is thcught here that the Soviet government will find it difficult, if not impossible, under present conditions to obtain extensions ! and increases. in Great Britain and Germany at least, with which to go| on with its projects. Incidentally, it/ has been noticed that Russia had to ship gold out of the country re- cently. In view of those circumstances and the growing difficulties along the same lines, the observers here have been ex- pecting the Soviet authorities to begin preparing the Russian people not to expect all that had been predicted for the five-year plan. An effort to con- vince the Russian people that Ameri- can policy bas made the fulfillment of various projects impossible, it was pointed out, might very well be aimed in that direction. | WEST POINTERS WANT TO WAKE UP EARLIER! Ask That Reveille Be Sounded at 5:50 So They Can Get in More Studying. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. WEST POINT, N. Y., October 3.—At the formal request of the cadet student body itself first call for reveille at the United States Military Academy here has been advanced from 6:20 am. to 5:50 am. Last Spring, at the close of the aca- demic year, Maj. Gen. Willlam R. Smith, commandang of “the Point,” re- tarded reveille half an hour, giving the cadets eight and one-half hours of slumber instead of the usual eight hours. His move at the time was hailed by the student army officers. Now that formal studies are again under way after the Summer vacation, the eadets have found that the addi- * tional half hour in the morning is needed more for study than for sleep. It is recalled that 100 years agod reveille at West Point sounded at 4:30 am. and the cadets drilled from 5:30 until 6:30 a.m. before & 7 o'clock break- fast. BLONDES’ PREFERENCE IN LONDON PASSES NOW - Hair Expert Says Platinum Ones Acquire Blue-Black Locks * by Rush to Dye Tresses. LONDON, (N. A. N. A) October- 3.— | Whatever Anita Loos may say, gentle- MAN IN YELLOW FEVER TESTS | GETS U. S. PENSION AND MEDAL Clyde L. West, Who Offered Self for Experiments, Recalls Days in Cuba. Now Resident of Riverdale, ' He Tells of Lying in Coma Three or Four Days. Thirty-cne yvears after he faced death in ord-r that humanity might be saved from the ravages of yellow fever, Clyde L. West's sacrifice has been recognized official’y by his Government. West has just reteived from Secre- tary of the Treasury Mellon a hand- | some gold mede], valued at about $259. together with a monthly lifetime pen- sion of $125, awarded bocause ha al- lowed himself to be bitten by fever- laden mosquitoes in the famous Walter Reed yellow fever experiments in Cuba | in_1900. The pension and medals were aus | thorized by Congress February 28, 1929, to be awarded to all survivors of the ‘tests and: posthumously to those who died since or during the experiments. Recalls Perilous Test. Now a gray-haired, middle. West recalled yesterday how infected with the deadly fever' to tell the tale. then, he said. | “Soldiers were dying right and left by the hundreds when our commanding officer asked for volunteers to become infected with the fever. I was a hos- pital corpsman and had been working right with the fever, carrying out dead | bodies and tending the sick, but I stepped forward to, volunteer—I guess I did it without thinking. “After a few days, Dr. Roger Post Ames, commandant of the hospital, sent | for me. He said Dr. James Carroll, who was working with Dr. Reed in the experiments, wanted to see me in the | yellow fever ward. I went there—a | little shack isolated drom the Test of the hospital—and Dr. Carroll said he | wanted to inject the blood of a sick patient into my veins, Inoculation Fails. “There was a man lying on a cot un- conscious. Dr. Carroll took some blood cut of his back and squirted it into the veins of my arm. “The patient died that night, but I never caught the fever—not that time, | at any rate. “When they saw I was immune to the blood infection they sent for me again. ‘Go to the mosquito house,’ I was told. There I met Dr. Carroll | again. There were a dozen different | varieties of mosquitoes in jars all along the walls of the shack. | “Dr. Carroll told me to roll up my sleeve and put my arm down against the gauze covering the jars. 1 did— | and, believe me, those mosquitoes sure did bite. They had been starved par- | ticularly for the purpose of biting me. Dr. Carroll held a microscope over them, and I watched them suck the blood right out of my arm until they were 50 full they just fell over back- | war ‘Well, nothing happened for three or | four days. Then one day while I was ROOSEVELT STUDIES BUDGETATRESORT Problem of $30,000,000 Shortage in New York Rev- enue Is Considered. -aged man, | e became | nd lived | He was only a “kid” | By the Associated Press. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., October $.— Gov. Pranklin D. Roosevelt did not leave all State problems bekind when he came here on his vacation. One of them—State expenses—is taking some of his time here. The New York Governcr today was considering new sources of taxation in order to meet the $30,000.000 shortage in revenue this year. Increased gaso- line tax. sales and luxury impost and raised rate on incomes in higher brack- ets were methods the Governor is studying. Presentation in January. As soon as he returns to Albany, N. Y., the executive will go to work on the budget, and he hopes to have the tax situation fixed in mind when he commences considering the budget. Last year's budget called for expendi- tures of $317,000,000. The budget goes to the annual session of the Legisiature next January. ‘The home-coming barbecue for Mr. Roosevelt, originally set for September 26 by the Meriwether County Roosevelt- | eating dinner—I believe it was on_the | be made | Georgia Tech. ‘THE SUNDAY ST jof the Americas, convene to consider| jn | AR, WASHINGTON, 'STIMSON T0 OPEN PARLEY ON TRADE Pan-American Meeting Set for 10 0°Clock, With 500 Delegates Attending. Secretary of State Stimson, chair- man of the Board of Governors of the Pan-American Union, will open the fourth Pan-American Commercial Con- ference in the Pan-American Building at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning when 500 men, active in the business life | important international trade problems. Speakers at the opening session of |the eight-day conference will include CLYDE L. WEST. fourth day—a chill hit me like a pile- driver had struck me on the head “I kmew then that I had yellow fever. ‘Boys, I've goteit,’ I said. “My temperature was 100. It kept rising: at 1 o'clock it was 101, going up all the time. At 5 o'clock they put me in, an ambulance and sent me to the hospital—to the same little shack where I was inoculated. After I got in bed I don’t remember any thing more—I must have been unconscious for three, perhaps four, days. “When I came to T wanted to eat. “‘Doc,’ I says to Dr. Pope, ‘how about food?" T Well, well’ says the doc, ‘youre| really hungry, are you?' You bet I am.’ I replied. How would you like something | solid—that would hit the spot, wouldn't it?" says the doc. ‘O. K.’ I answered. “'Give West a hunk of ice,” Dr. Pope ordered the nurse. Stands and Keels Over. “Well, it was just the same when I was allowed to gyt out of bed. Dr. Pope told me I coll get up and move around. I thought he meant to put: my clothes on and go for a walk. I sent for my uniform, put my clothes on while sitting on the bed and when I stood up fell flat on my nose on the floor.” West said that for going through with the experiment he was paid $100 | by the Cuban government and when he recovered he received another $100. Two Men Here Honored. The idea that mosquitoes carried the ‘yellow fever germ, West said, origi- nated with Dr. Carlos J. Finlay, who was then president of the Superior Board of Health of Cuba. Dr. Finlay’s theory was proved correct by Drs. Reed and Carroll. who conducted their ex- periments at the request of Gen. Leon- ard Wood, Army surgeon. who at that time was governor general of Cuba. West lives at 830 Maryland avenue, Riverdale, Md.. and is one of two men in Washington receiving the medal. The other is Thomas England, a captain in the office of the surgeon general of the U. §. Army. 01 for-President Club, and later changed to next week, will not be held until October 13, the day before the Governor heads North for the Yorkiown battle celebration and Albany. Dr. R. B. Gilbert, president of the club, announced the change in dates. He said all 60 or more Roosevelt-for- President Clubs in Georgia were in- vited. The Governor asked that po! tics be left out of the home-coming. Next Wednesday a group of Georgia educators will Junch with Mr. Roosevelt for discussion of the Warm Springs Foundation movement. The group will up of Dr. Spright Dowell, president Mercer University, Macon, Ga_: Dr. Harvey Cox. president Emory University, Atlanta: Dr. J. R. McCain, president Agnes Scott_ College, Decatur. Ga. and Dr. M. L. Brittain, president Mrs. Roosevelt Leaves. Mrs. Roosevelt left for New York to- day. cutting short her vacation because of the opening of Todd Hunter School, of which she is vice principal. She also wanted to be at home when her two sons leave for school, one for Har- vard and the other for Groton. . Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, his son and his daughter- in-law, were luicheon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt today. Mr. Howell formerly was Georgla's naticnal committeeman. Bernart McFadden, publisher, has been visiting Roosevelt, left today for Lebanon, Tenn. Mr. McFadden, traveling by plane, flew from Newark to Fort Benning. Ga., in 4 hours and 15 minutes on the trip down. He was here to look over the Warm Springs Foundation. P SR A sportsman in Scotland is reported to have shot a salmon with his rifle, after which the bullet ricochetted and | brought down a stag on the bank. men no longer prefer blondes—accord- ing to Mr. Mark; and he should know, for 3 once wrestled with the locks of Hollywood film stars and is now in charge of the hairdressing establishment of a celebrated west end hotel. Perhaps it is the longer skirts which favor the more serious.grace .assaciated with dark-haired beautles, or it may be that “dolls” have palled in their at- traction “Blondes are finished.” said Mr. Mark serfously. “In the past fortnight I have had_ 30 platinum -blondes - hrere' 't * be dved blue black. There was the obvious reaction. There were too many blondes. The fashion now is to be biue black in the Spanish style,-ahd the women are flocking to be tinted in that way. As for the complexion, the olive sunburn that goes with blue black is the newest mode.” (Copyright. 1931. by the North American =" Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) g = : Russians Plan Arctic Trip. LENINGRAD.—The Soviet Russian | Arctic Institute is px'eparlng to_send | an unmanned scientific expedition into | the Arctic. A small boat, now under | construction, will be equipped with automatic meteorological . . instruments and set adrift. The institute figures the craft will move eastward from Bering Straits and will be gone about ® Jear. 3 i A LIMITED NUMBER Of ‘these Beautiful New Fall Hats in Eugenies, Derbies, etc., in those wanted colors. Come early for best selection. TWO HATS i 33 Formerly $3 and $5 for ALL HEAD SIZES RILLS DRESS SHOP 931 G St. N.W, m Democratic i who ! Secretary of-Commerce Lamont, Silas. H. Strawn, president of the Chamber of | Commerce of the United States; Henry P. Fletcher, chairman of the United States Tariffl Commission, and Luis O. Abelll, minister from Bolivia to the United States. According to Dr. Leo 8. Rowe, director general of the Pan-American Union, sponsor of the conference, the sessions are timely because of the problems now facing business in the United States and 20 other American republics. “The timeliness with which the con- ference is being held,” Dr. Rowe de- clared in a statement last night, “is in- dicated clearly by the widespread re- sponse to the invitations to participate. The governments, as well as the numer- ous chambers of commerce, trade groups and schools of business administration, which will be reprasented at the gather- ing evidently consider that the present | offers a most timely opportunity to give | carefully 'studied thought to trade and allled problems.” ‘The main purpose of the conference, Dr. Rowe asserted, is .'to stimulate and benefit inter-American trade and com- which now stand in the way of progress and the measures that may be adopted to promote that trade.” Topics on the conference program, he said, cover every vital commerce. These topics include inter-American commercial relations. production and distribution, financial and economic problems of the American republics, all of which will be considered in the plenary sessions. The group meetings will consider trade barriers. trade pro- motions, transportation and communi- cation, consular procedure, customs reg- ulation, finance and judicial questions. The delegates will be entertained at luncheon tomorrow by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, at the Pan American Union Building. Other items on the official entertainment program include a reception by the Pan American Union: a garden party at Secretary Stimson’s home, a visit to Mount Ver- non, and luncheons to be given by Sec- retary Lamont, the United States Chamber . of Commerce and the Car- negie Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Julius Klein. Assistant Sec- retary of Commerce, will be host to the delegates on a trip down the Po- tomac River aboard the S. S. Oceanog- rapher, official vessel of the Department of Commerce in survey work. At the close of the conference. the visiting _ delegates from the Latin American countries will tour the lead- ing industrial centers of the Eastern seaboard. Cities which will be visited are Philadelphia, Baltimore, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Akron, Detroit, Buffalo, Rochester, Schenectady, Boston. Hart- ford, New Haven and New York. INEW YORK “GOOD WILL" COURT IS SUCCESSFUL Justice With No Legal Power Ar- ranges Petty Quarrels Among Neighbors. | Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, October 3 (NANA) — ‘The ancient doctrine, “The law is the has been scrapped in a fashion than can cause no complaint from any one. The “Good Will Court” has been successful here for some time, and the nicipal Court justice, with robes and all the accoutrements accompanying an ordinary procedure, but with no legal authority. He listens to the troubles of neighbors, hears other petty squabbles and usually sends every one home happy. A typical example was the complaint of & book keeper who was fired two months ago, yet insisted on coming to his desk every morning and working | before Justice Sweedler and said that | mal pay. “He came in and worked, your Honor, and would you expect me to throw him out?” asked the employer. “No,” said the jurist, “but I expect you to pay him.” “All right.” And that was that. at BIG- { ey, sl merce through the removal of obstacles | A phase of inter-American | presiding officer has always been a Mu- | | as usual throughout the day. He came | he thought he was entitled to his nor- | fow prices and uu_:unully’r liberal terms make this opportunity o acquire the ) DOCK MEN BATILE | AT PIER IN-BOSTON | Colored Non-Union Workers and Longshoremen Riot, With Score Injured. By the Associated Pr BOSTON, October 3.—One man was | | wounded critically and a score more | were injured today in & bitterly fovght clash between striking union longshore- men and colored non-union workers at | Commonwealth Pier. Firearms, knives, bale hooks and clubs were used freely the conflict. It was the first serious | outbreak since 50 longshoremen em- ployed by the Luckenbach Steamship Line went on strike early in the week. | Charles J. Coles, 60, & non-union col- ored worker, suffered skull and arm fractures. Several shots were fired dur- ing the battle, but no one was reported struck by bullets. Coles and others who suffered stab wounds and less serious injuries were taken to hospitals after police, some of whom discharged their pistols into the air, halted the fighting. | No arrests were made. Stabbing Precipitates Riot. The conflict was the climax of a series of minor assaults and demonstra- tions which have occurred since the Luckenbach strikers were Yeplaced by colored non-union workers several days | ago. The flare-up came, police said, | when a group of colored workers on s | Luckenbach liner attacked a union longshoreman employed on the Ameri- can-Hawailan liner Californian. The unin man was stabbed in the struggle. His fellow workers rushed to his res- cue, precipitating a general outbreak of fighting | Approximately 100 men participated in the fighting, and many of them were knocked unconscious as impro- vised weapons were swung With abandon and police wielded their clubs. motor cycle officer, caught in the enclosure where the fighting raged, drove his vehicle into groups of the battlers. He succeeded in putting many of them out of action temporarily, Police Reserves Called Out. Reserve officers from station 12, South Boston, hastened to the pier and essisted in quelling the outbreak. The combatants were lined up for a search, which brought forth a specimen of most every known type of pocket weapon. H |~ When reports of the fighting reached | police headquarters officers off duty | were ordered to report to their respec- | tive stations and plans were lald for | action in the event of another out- | break. | Work Resumed on Deadline. Gov. Joseph B. Ely, when informed of the clash, threaened to close the pler, which is owned by the State, un- | less guarantee was given that there would be no more fighting. Gov. Ely has taken a major part in attempts to settle wage and sling load weight dis- agreements. which have been respon- sible for strikes at the Commonwealth and other piers on the waterfront. The union workers did not resume their work on the Hawaiian-American vessels Californian _and Towan after | the fighting, and officials of that line demanded increased police protection for them. This was granted, and after /moontime the union men went to work {on the Hawailan Line steamers while | police patrolled a deadline which had | been established between them and the non-unfon colored workers working on the Luckenbach vessels. |FERRY’S S 0 S BRINGS AID TO QUELL BATTLE Driver Takes on Trio on Boat, but Officer Refuses Offer and Arrests Him. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, October 3 (NAN.A).— To the young man who has regularly | been advertising in the agony column of a morning paper, “young man wants exciting work,” we have the suggestion that he join the engine room force of the Staten Island ferry or the harbor police. One of the.ferries that plies between the Battery and St. George sent out this week the first S O S call on rec- ord caused by the fighting prowess of | one man. It seems that Matthew Na- varra bumped another man's car as he dr onto the ferry. There came an altercation, which Navarra won handily. The mate of the boat protested and was immediately taken on. Meanwhile, the boat was churning toward the Battery. A hasty conference on the bridge brought up a husky oiler from the engine room, and when he seemed to be weakening the S O S was blared from the siren. -The harbor was in an uproar. A patrolman boarded the ship, de- clined Navarra’s sparring offer and ar- rested him on three charges. (Copyright. 1931. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) HEATING PLANTS SAVINGS Lowest prices NOW:=gip to 3 years fo pagl No Cash Needed No Payments Until November healthful comfost and con- venie: m&_oi a modern heating ¢! Take édva E:ceohh priees now | do by GENERAL Heating & Plumbing Co. 901 10th St. N.W. ps D. C, OCTOBER 4, 1931—PART ONE. Car Strikes Taxi and House DRIVER SOUGHT BY POLICE FOLLOWING ACCIDENT. i & .. 4 PTER colliding with a taxicab driven by Luke Hollaway; 23, 544 Twenty- third street northeast, last night, the automobile pictured above ran across the sidewalk, up a terrace and knocked a hole in the wall of the home of Miss Florence Collingsworth, 701 Florida avenue northeast. Police are searching for Clelland C. McDevitt, said to have been the owner of the machine. Policeman E. D. Lambert of the ninth precinct is standing beside the car. —Star Staff Photo. Golf for Preachers Deplored. COLUMBIA, Ky. — Golf, thinks Bishop W. F. McMurray of the Metho- dist iscopal Church South, is for Methodist preachers.” He nothing to do but play. 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A list of guarantors has been com- pleted for the fifth season of the Com« munity Instituce of Washington. The first event ai Central Community Cen-. ter will be a joint recital October 20 by Katherine Homer, pianist, and Louise Homer Stires, lyric soprano. Among the guarantors will be Byron 8. Adams, Justice Jesse C. Adkins, Henry P. Blair, Henry N. Brawner, jr.; H. K. Bush-Brown, Dr. William Earl Clark, William Knowles Cooper, Wil- liam Lee Corbin, F. G. Cottrell, J. Harry Cunningham, Charles Demonet, E. F. Droop & Sons Co. John Joy Edson, W. W. Everett, Robert V. Flem- ing, Isaac Gans, Julius Garfinckel, Henry Gilligan, E. C. Graham, J. Phil- lip Herrmann, Frank R. Jelleff, Dr. Loren B. T. Johnson, R. M. Kauff- mann, Dr. L. F. Kebler, Paul Lum, John B. Larner, Dr. A. Barrett Learned, M. A. Leese, Thomas P. Littlepage, Gideon A. Lyon, Judge Walter F. Mc- Coy, Dr. Edward B. Meigs, Raymond Morgan, Frank B. Noyes, Theodore W. Noyes, Julius_Peyser, Samuel J. Pres- | cott, George Ricker, Cuno H. Rudolph, | R. H. Sargeant, James Sharp. George | Otis Smith, Dr. Philip Sidney Smith, H. B. Spencer, Gen. Anton Stephan, Sid- | ney Strauss, Corcoran Thom. Twentieth | Century Club, O. L. Veerhoff, George W. White, George M. Whitwell and Donald Woodward. [ Theft Victim Wea;'n Klan Robe. | CHICAGO.—Jack Hannan lost his | raiment to robbers and then was hauled into court to explain. ‘The police rummaged around and found a garment which had been seized in a | Tald several years ago. That was why | Hannan went before the judge in the white robe of a Ku Klux Klansman, | Actress Gets Divorce. LOS ANGELES, October 3 ().—Ann Brown, motion picture actress, today was granted a divorce from Jack Shutta, ‘cn!e entertainer. on the ground that he | was objectionably jealous. right 50¢ Week t only because of e 6 & o6 o > 0 o &P