Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1931, Page 16

t FA—16 ww CHARLES FERRING [ DIES N CERMANY Former Government Official, Native of District, Found Dead in Bed. Chatles Herring, former assistant di- rector of the Bureau of Forelgn and | Domestic Commerce, Commerce, and well known Washing- | tonian, today was found dead in bed ! ¥4 s . Berlin, Germany, hotel, according to a cable received by department of- | & cials from Commercial Attache L. W.; Groves at Berlin. He was 44 years cld. | ~ Death was attributed to heart disease. Mr. Herring resigned from the de- | § . partment on July 1. 1930, while serving | 'f as commercial attache at large, hav- | % ing jurisdiction in the field through- out Europe. embassies in Germany and at Tokio. Born in Washington. Mr. Herring was born in Washington and received his education in public schools here and at George Washington University. In 1910 he entered the Government service, being attached for four years to the chief of staff, War Department. In 1914 he was transferreq to the Commerce Department. Because of his exceptional ability as a_trans- lator for the War Department he was | placed in the tariff section of the Bu- Teau of Forelgn and Domestic Com- merce. He rendered valuable service during | the World War in statistical research | work for the War Trades Board. Later | B Department of | B He formerly served as a | ) commercial attache at the American | | 14 v he was made chief of foreign investi- | gation of the Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau. In June, 1919, he was_appointed trade commissioner for work in Belgium, returning to the bu- | resu in May. 1930, to accept duties as first assistant director. Traveled Extensively. In July, 1921, he resigned from this | g poeition to accept an appointment as commercial attache at Berlin. In 1926 < he was transferred to Tokio and one year later he was appointed commer- cial sttache at large. For the last year | [ he traveled extensively throughout Eu- rope on account of his health. His mother died while on a visit to him in Berlin two years ago. Friends say there are no survivors residing in ‘Washington. SOFT COAL OPERATORS | §P CALLED TO CONFERENCE Asked to Meet in New York Octo- ber 21 to Consider Ways of Re- lieving Ailments of Industry. ‘Twenty-nine coal operators were re- quested yesterday by the National Coal - Association to meet in New York on October 21 to consider ways of reliev- ing the ailments of the bituminous coal industry. The ‘meeting was called by C. E.| Bockus, president of the association. in response to a resolution adopted last Monday by the West Virginia coal operators at Charleston. Special attention will be given to| & ! modification of the anti-trust laws s'll’l . curtail- | § permit greater co-operation, ment of production, and the payment of an adequate wage. The operators invited represent mines in West Virginia, Kentucky, Il- lincis, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. ’ ¥ INSTAI:LMEN:I' FINANCING NOW IMMENSE INDUSTF.Y | & Association Manager Says Business Has Capital at Present of $350,000,000. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 8.—C. f2. Hanch, | k | B | | general manager of the Natyonal Asso- cietion of Finance Compar/es, said to- day that modern installmgnt financing, | §§ which started with slim capital in 1915 | 8 and was confined almost entirely to the | {8 financing of automobile “ales, has grown to a business with a capital and surplus of approximately $35¢),000,000, diversi- fied over a wide field, of merchandise. Efforts were now being made by the | § association, Hanch said, to determine safe credit terms for the increasing list of other items sold on the part-payment plan, and financed like automobiles. 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