Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1931, Page 21

CHANNEL PROFECT WL BE PUSHED Canada and U. S. Agree on Definite Steps Looking to St. Lawrence Treaty. By the Associated Press. H Tarly realization of the centuries-old | vision of sea-going vessels sailing west- ward over the St. Lawrence River ‘into the Great Lakes is to be sought by the | United States and Canada. | Definite steps to consummate negoti- | ations for a treaty covering the gigantic | shipping and water-power project have been agreed upon by the two govern- | ments after years of discussion. Direct diplomatic exchange of view: the State Department announced, wil be relied upon in initiating the dis: cussions. American Minister MacNide at Ottawa and Canadian Minister Her- | idge here will act as spokesmen. The United States had suggested a special commission. Hoover Would Push Work. President Hoover has agreed to the procedure .and is desirous of pushing; the undertaking, which will cost many millions, as a spur to employment. Until the announcement yesterday,| action upon the project had been vir- tually at a standstill since Secretary Kellogg notified Canada this country was ready to name a group to negotiate ® treaty. Gov. Roosevelt of New York is ex- pecied to be heard from on the de- *~elopment Recently he wrote Presi- dent Hoover to ask about reports Can- ada and the United States were discuss- ing the project and asked that New York be included in negotiations. Free Movement Channel. Creation of the great inland waterway from the Atlantic to the Lakes would | eet up a channel for free movement of sea-going traffic along the turbulent course from Montreal to the Lakes. The chief dispute in this country has! been over whether the route should be _ drem the Lakes via the St. Lawrence or across New York State. President Hoo- wver, while Secretary of Commerce, urged the St. Lawrence way in & re- ort to President Coolidge. The problem of disposal and control ©f power development also is unsettled MOVES TO DRAFT IDLE FOR COTTON PICKING| Arkansas Governor, in Proclama- tion, Says Theusands Are Needed to Prevent Big Loss. By the Associated Press LITTLE ROCK Ark, October 8—In | ® proclamation that said thousands of pickers were needed to prevent a large loss on the cotton crop, Gov. Parnell yesterday asked officials of all com- Taunities in the State to organize in & move to transfer the unemployed of the citles to the fields. “There should be no idlers, no loit- | erers in the towns,” the proclamation said. “The cotton must be picked while it is white. The quality must he maintained.” In some sections of the State, police | have invoked vagrancy ordinances to force loiterers in the city to go to the cotton fields. IMMIGRATION DROPS 72.4 PCT. DURING YEAR| August Figures of U. 8. Reveal | Quota Entrants Decrease as Emigration Rises, By the Associated Press. imigration into the United States | Was 72.4 per cent less during August this year than in the same month of The Labor Department yesterday an- nounced that 4,090 immigrants were admitted during the month. Quota im= migrants totaled 1,505, or 82.7 per cent less than last year. Deportations during the month were 11.;;04, compared with 1,208 in August, Departures during the month of emi- grants were 9,541, compared with 5,245 in_August yast year Women ‘entering . > country mnow outnumber men two o one. More than one-fourth of the immi- grants came from Canada. Canadians entering the country to live tnlal!d‘ 1.108. Mexicans numbered 173. Canada #nd Mexico are not quota countries. TAX ON TRADE BOARD MEMBERSHIPS DECIDED B the Assoclated Pre CHICAGO, October 8—Members of | the Chicago Board of Trade will be ! ordered to pay personal property taxes | on their memberships, County Assessor | John E. Conroy said Tuesday. The 1550 brokers own memberships valued at $7.000 each, or a total of £10.850,000. Conroy said. They should | pay $250.000 in taxes on an assessable value of $4,014,500, he said. Chicago Stock Exchange members | lso will be assessed arbitrarily, he said. | Owners of 75,000 tank cars valued at | 50,000,000 were ordered to show cause | within two weeks why they should not | be assessed under the personal property | law for the first time. Attorneys for two firms said they should be exempt | because they were used in interstate | commerce. | NEW devslopment in rug economy by Olson RugCo., largest rug manufactur- ers dealing direct with the home. Ch f 52 Oriental, Two-Tone or terns, regardless of colors in Glorious Oriental colorings, soft, deep pile texture. All rugs woven nless, reversi- ble for double wear, any size in a week. The Fell in Water WOMAN DENIES BEING THROWN IN RIVER. MISS LEAH CRANE. Investigation into a report that two men threw 8 woman into the Potcmar‘ River off Hains Point early Tuesday morning disclosed today that the wom- | an, Miss Leah Crane, 23, slipped and | fell into the water from a motor boat | dock. She was rescued by the two men, | one her escort and the other a taxi| driver. Walter M. Cissel of 4415 Ord street | northeast made the report to harbor police that the woman had been throw into the water, then taken out and beaten in the face and put in a taxicab. Miss Crane, who lives at 833 Fifth | street, denied today she had been as- saulted or thrown into the river. | “I was standing on the boat dock with | my hands on the railing, and when I removed one hand my feet slipped from || under me and I fell into the river. The | man who was with me jumped in after me, and he and the taxi driver pulled me out and took me home.” NOTED ENGINEER DIES Andrew Wiley, Hoover Dam Con-| | | sultant, Succumbs in California. 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