Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1931, Page 4

' v A—4 SOVIET 70 KEEP UP | EXPORTS OF WHEAT Gets Hallow Official in - Moscow Denies | Nation Plans to Reduce Grain Shipments. By the Asociated P MOBCOW, November domestic demand may reduce Russ wheat exports to some extent. bu was suthoritativ denled today that | the Soviet Union will disconfinie ex- | ports this year and next reported abrosd An official in & posttion to know said that the Incressed demand. combined with reduction of the Bpring crop by drought, undoubtedly will eut the e portable total, but he declared that ex- porta will not be stopped by any means Supporting this view wes a speech ny Vyachesiaffl Molotoff, president of the Council of Proples Commissars, who told an anti-drought conference here that the gross yield of the 1931 grain crop s expected to equal that of last year, which wes the largest in Russia’s history, and that deliveries to the gov- ernment already have excecded those in | the corresponding period ast year | The 1932 sown area. he said, is to be | extended bevond the present area In view of the fact that Russig de- pends largely upon the sales of agricul- tural products abroad for money to finance industrial development, it is considered absurd here to think that grain exports would be curtailed, not- withstanding the drop in prices in the | world market | Reports abroad that Russia is trying 65D Wistiter. firet vioe ‘president to withdraw s large quantity of wheat' connc'his organization’s trophy fo Dr now in the British market could nou be | of schools The prize was won by the offielally confirmed here | pumpkin float in the Halloween parade WET WEATHER CUTS SURPLUS, | DY & local organization 3 —Increasing A8 has been Loss of 50,000,000 Bushels of Wheat Is Anticipated by Berlin, BERLIN. November 3 Wet weather, which Is causing millions of bushels of French and German wheat to sprout in the shotks, is eliminating some of the world surplus which depressed markets during the Spring and Summer In German market circles it was said Instructor at Farm COMMUNITY CENTER WINS TRADE BOARD PRIZE. IFAILURE OF RUSSIAN WHEAT CROP DESCRIBED BY AMERICAN N STAR. WASHINGTON, D, €. TUESDAY. een Trophy of the Board of Trade, is shown pre- Frank W. Ballou (left), superintendent | Community Center Department for a! It was chosen as the best float enteied | —Star Staft Photo. | Cites Bad Weather, | headed by IBILLS TO BOLSTER BANKS DRAWN UP Senator Vandenberg Hopes to Link Credit Corporation and Federal Reserve. strengthen the country as Senate's presented the bills to the Bpe: Banking _Committee. Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, and said they had the ap- roval of Gov. Young of the Boston ‘ederal Reserve Ban Vandenbirg hopes nently to the Federal Reserve System the Emergency Credit Corporation. es- tablished recently at President Hoover's request Would Amend Reserve Act. Two of his bills would amend the Federal Reserve act so as to Dpiace emergency rediscounting power in the hands of the Reserve Board, and allow rediscounting of State, county and mu- nicipal short-term bonds The half-billlon dollars of postal saving: wou! be made more avallable to the national banks under another measure to make debentures of the Emergency Credit Corporation eligible to secure postal savings deposits in the banks Vandenberg, in his fourth bill, would make the credit corporation debentures eligible for rediscount at Federal Re- serve Banks, Sees Help for Credit. “I believe such a program would help American credit immeasurabley and fur- ther strengthen American banking with- out the remotest menace to the Federal ve.” the Senator said. “On the 1» would recreate general use- fulness in the Federal Reserve and re- build its membership, which has suf- fered a 22 per cent loss in the last nine years, largely because of needlessly lim- ited privileges.” Senator Glass, & former Secretary bf the Treasury, while indorsing the gens eral principies of the Hoover emergency to link perma- ' | Heads Trustees DR. ARTHUR C. CHRISTIE. IR, CHRISTIE EADS - TRUSTEES OF A. . . Other Officers Selected and Plans Made for Next Academic Year. Dr. Arthur C. Christie, president of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, was elected president of the | Board of Trustees of American Univer- ! sity yesterday to succeed John C. Letts of this city. Dr. Christie has been prominent in various organizations of the city. He |1s the first vice president of the Young | Men's Christian Association, president NOVEMBER that from -~ 30,000,000 to 50000000 bughels would be unfit for milling be- Poor Seed and Negligence in economic program, has indicated oppo- | sition to any proposal that new forms of | of the Board of Trustees of the Swart- paper be made eligible for rediscount by | zell Methodist Home for Children and 3, 1931. DISTRICT SINGERS 10 J0IN CONCERT 1,000 Representatives of Churches Will Assist Proqram| by Westminster Choir. ‘ More tham 1,000 choir representatives of 50 local churches will assist in the | concert to be given in Constitution Hall | Wednesday night by the Westminster, Choir, which is making its first Wash- ington appearsnce since a tour of | Europe, two years ago. The list of churches to be represented in a massed choral number during the concert include . Allbright Memorial, | Ascension, Brightwood M. E. Brook- | land M. E. Calvary Baptist, Chevy| Chase Presbyterian. Emmanuel Episco- pal. Epiphany, First Congregational, | Georgetown Presbyterian, Grace Lu- theran, Gunston Temple Presbyterian, Hamline M. E., Holy Gomforter Chapel, | Mount Pleasant Congregational. Mount | Vernon Place M. E. , National | City Christian, National Memorial Bap- tisf, -Nativity and Resurrection, Pet-| worth M. E., Sixth Presbyterian, Trinity M. _E, Fourth Presbyterian and the W. 0. A Christ’ Church, Alexandria; Douglas E. Clarendon Presbyterian, St. An- drew's Episcopal and Park View Chris- | tian will also participate. | The junior vested choirs include Con- gress Heights Baptist, National City Christian, Epworth M. E., Church of th Pilgrims, Immanuel P. E, Alexandria and others. Unvested _choirs will come from | Brookland Baptist, Bethany Baptist | Calvary M. E. Chevy Chase Baptist, | Church of the Brethern, Church of the | Holy City, Columbia Heights Christian, Dumbarton M. E., Eastern Presbyterian, First Reformed, First Baptist, Garden Memorial Presbyterian, H Street Chris- tian, Incarnation, Lincoln Road M. E., Luther Place Memorial, Marvin M. E, Metropolitan M. E., St. Stephen's Lu- theran, Sherwood Presbyterian, Wash- ington City Brethern, Westminster, Ta- koma Park Lutheran, Takoma Park Presbyterian, 8t. Paul's Rock Creek. Railway Stations for Rent. “Railway Stations for Rent” is & Captain Retires 1 muo;«'i oA ENDS 17 YEARS' OF SERVICE. CAPT. WALTER 0. EMERSON. Capt. Walter O Emerson bade farewell to members of the thirteenth precinct in a simple ceremony this morning when he relinquished his command to Capt. Joseph C. Morgan and retired to private life, after 37 years in the Met- ropolitan Police Department The entire force attached to Brightwood station gathered in squad room and paid tribute to their departing leader, who has reached the compulsory retirement age of 64 years. Short talks were made by Police Commissioner Herbert B. Cro In- spector Ernest W. Brown, acting major and superintendent of police, and Capt Morgan. An easy chair was presented to Capt Emerson by Inspector Brown on behalf of the officers of No. 13 station, after which Capt. Emerson bade his men -by. Mrs. Emerson attended the ceremony. The retiring officer served as com- mander of the thirteenth precinet for nearly a year. Previously he had been assistant chief of detectives under In- spector William 8. Shelby. Baby Taken as “Pledge.” Declaring that he could find noth- the the | cause of the weather and would have organizations are trying to secure can- cellations of some of their futures com- mitments in England and that Rus- sian wheat exports d 2,000,000 bushels last week' under the week pre- ceding, a 50 per cent decline, An offi- cial the Soviet embassy said the country's wheat supply is sufficient for e needs, with some for export Some statisticlans compared Ger- many's present cereal crops with the ears of 1924-25 and 1926-27 “heése factors wHl result in the urehase of more wheat from the nited States, or whether orders will #0 Yo Argentina, Canada or elsewhere, capnot now be determined, grain au- ‘thorities said ivate advices reaching consular officials said Russian crops were poor in‘Biberia and the Ukrai with & fair hi in the Volga Valley, and that a rable portion of the &gxt Spring campaign is unmatured. v cials said the present world crop is not far in excess of world needs. TORRIENTE SCORES MACHADO'’S POLICY Cuban President’s Financing and Sugar Price Blamed for Island’s Trouble, In the followins article Jean Walker. he for & consi n lerable period was imental tarm in BY JEAN WALKER, Instructor on Tractors and Combines at State Experimental Parm. 0. 2, Berbhut, Russia. Special Dispateh to The Star PEORIA TlI, November 3 (NAN.A). —With a 200 per cent increase in age the Russian state farms did not produce as much wheat this year as last. Here are the reasons. | Unusual season. Poor seed. | Gross negligence in care and han- dling of machinery. | In the North Caucasian district last | Winter we had one of the worst storms | in 75 years. The wind averaged 65| 1o 70 kilometers per hour. with a fine | snow before it. It drifted bad in the valleys and left the fields bare and with no molsturg Now as for the seed. Every year at harvest time the seed for the next years planting is saved. Wheat seed, which is saved from year to year from the same fields, gradually loses its vitalty, ml:d “'c&r:aequmny loses its germinating qualities. At _the experimental farm last year our Winter wheat averaged 35 bishels | r acre, our Spring wheat 15 bushels. | year our Winter wheat did not | run over 12 bushels and our Spring grain not over 4. Machinery Not Ready. | DR~ Braident The main difference in the averages statement. that “80 per cent of Cuba's | of the Spring wheat is due to the fact economic trouble is due to the high |that the machinery was not ready at American tariffs,” Cosme de la Torri- ‘:t e time: ron;e?u"m.\' “1'-'::’6 4 the Spring rains, doing our planting ente former League of Nations Presi- | joor"and when the wheat did come up, dent and opposition leader, today |you couldn't see it for weeds. Arther blamed the country’s difficulties on the | thing, we were using only Russian-made price of sugar and Machado's financial | Grills, and it was impossible to keej policy. them' running over 12 hours at one “If Gen. Machado hed devoted more | Stretch without major Tepairs. As a time to the economic development of [ Fesult the seeding was retarded. Cubs," said Torriente in a statement [ I can’t begin to tell you how the Rus- issued here, “and less to the mainte- | $1ANs mistreat their ‘machinery. Our nance of his powers in violation of thg | RArvest, which started on July 1 of this constitution and laws of Cuba, condi- | Year and should have lasted only 40 tions today would be better. The pri- days, was not finished when I left the mary cause for the present depressed |farm on September 22. It was abso- te of Cuban business is the price of | lutely impossible to keep a piece of sugar. The high tariff of the United | machinery running for any length of States comes afterward. An equally | time. important factor is the financial policy | Combines that will yun from 12 to 1§ of the Machado administration.” years in the United States do very well Torriente’s statement, issued $hrough |if they last through the second season the Cuban Opposition News A[enry.‘n there. > the Southern Building, declared that | Tractors good for 10 years' hard work f the burden which Machado has im- | here will not last through three sea- through his extravagance couid [sons there. For example, I had 20 lifted the Cuban people would obtain & great deal of relief. As matters stand, tractoss this year that were in their third season. They were worked in the they are suffering such deprivation as they @ never known before $1,000,000 BURGLARY OF BANK SOLVED | shop records. Last year we finished the harvest in 28 days. After our harvest we took our combines to the collective farms to help them out This year the collective farmers and TARIFF SEEN HURT | TO TRADE BENEFITS Senator Costigan, Former Member of Commission, Hopes Friend- ship Will Aid U. § 900 hours, as attested by the official ¥wo Arrested by St. Louis Police | After Ruse Lures Suspect to Confession. | - | B the Associated Press ST. LOUIS, November 3 —With two men under arrest last night in connec ton with the $1000000 burglary of the Orand Natlonal Bank here in May 1930, Chief of Police Joseph Gerk sald the department was on the eve of clear- ing Up the case. Other Arrests are an- Mcipated, the chief said Hepry J. Farrar was selzed Jefferson Hotel here yesterday he allegedly had told a detec querading #s a thief the wh of the crime, after the Post hed supplied (he chief with tion that Farrar had said he about the burg) Later -police arrested Jo ® gangster said by police %o Farrar Parrar, Chie! Gerk said. related that five men’ were engaged in the robbery and that, in addition, he as the lookout stayed oltside and telephoned the rob- Bers from time to time that “the coast's | cated “old-fashioned American tariff elear Included in the five. the chief | propaganda may be taking effect at aaid, was Henry Bosteiman, now in the | about the hour when the United States Colorado penitentiary is awakening to some major evils of 8y the Associated Pross A belief that high tariffs were post- ning the trade benefits resulting from ernational peace and good will was by Senator Costi- lorad former member said in & it of inter- n Lugar, 34 here and abroad > be related will soon open the closing commercial gates, which, more and more in recent months, have been halting the world beneficial exchange of commodities.” Costigan said recent developments lowing Great Britain's slection ind: expressed yesterday (Demtocrat) of Co knew all 1 Farrar said he did know, Chief | tariff excesses 000 in securities may be a forerunner of a movement s | this country for lower duties to pro- SAYS 1,000 KNEW WOMAN | Commission. he added. had “giten little “hrlbf\l] enlightenment to the people on Attorney for Miss Charlotte Fixel| DANCER'S TRIAL DELAYED Plans to Offer That Many Wit- P Gerk said. who t ed over the $882,- He saild the British drive for a ta | mote world commerce. The Tariff AS MRS. A. L. ERLANGER the results of our tarift laws. Marathon Contestant Is Allowed to Uesnes Estate Suit. Cont{nue Despite Rum Ca DENVER, November 3 (#) —80 long as Richard m-mo Temains in a cur- month in Surrogate O Brien's court Tent maratl ance he will escape uh in Surrogate OBrien's court | trial on a lquor charge in the United seeking & wiow's share in the estate | States District Court bere. After he of the late A. L. Erianger, Said he mdlx he will be called before District 1,000 witnesses to testify that Miss Fixel | Judge J. Foster Symes. ‘Was known 9 them &s “Mrs Erlanger court granted a continuance yes- Miss Fixel claims a widow's third of | terday upon the plea of counsel that | estate, estimated to bel Forgino had accumulated five weeks of | ,000, on the ground that elapsed time and that his chance of Jaw wife over a n&nmlm be spolled ¥ he had to! » now, Handling Machinery. | peasants brought their old reapers and | training school, where the govern- | the text book said it should be done oxen to help us get through. Out of combines, 30 of them band-new, only about 35 finished the season ‘The farm where I was stationed is ment trains its future farm engineers. These students are picked men from the factories and shops of all Russia, ffithey sign a contract on entering the | school to stay with the grain trust five years. They get only two years school- g and are then sent to a farm for one year before receiving their degree. Most of the farm woyk during Spring seeding an harvest iz done with these studenls. We had over 600 of these men, and they had only about eight days actual field work on each tion. In that time they are supposed to learn all there is to know about that particular job, Students Learn Wrong. Most of the time they actually know less upon completion of their time in the field than they did before they started, because most of what they learn is wrong I have tried repeatedly to explain different operations and sdjustments to a oup of them, only to have them say: “That is not right, it goes some other way." Many a time I have adjusted a ccm- bine to thrash efficiently only to have it changed the minute I left the ma- chine, because the students thought | some other way. My biggest trouble was in getting them to work. Every morning before work started I checked each machine | thoroughly before it was taken to the | fleld. "If I found anything wrong I| told the operator to fix it at once. This | is the answer I frequently received: | “I'm a student, I don't have to do that work. I'm here to see how and why it is done and not to do it. If you want it repaired, do it yourseif or get one of the reguar mechanics.” Every eighth day I got a new group of men—men who had never seen a combine before, which made it awfully hard to work the machines eficiently. Every bne of these men would “I'm” only on here for a Tl let the next man repair it More Time to Slee I recelved the call one night from the No. 7 unit. saying the combines were not running. When I arrived at the unit only three out of eleven com- Lines were working. In others the augers were torn out, cylinder bent out the reserve system. WORK PROVIDED FOR 275 IN CHATTANOOGA PLANTS Harvester Unit Adds 175, While | Extract Factory Reopens | With Force of 100. | | By the Associated Press CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., November 3.—Two hundred and seventy-five ad- | ditional men were put to work in two industrial plants here yesterday. The Chattanooga unit of the Inter- national Harvester Co. added 175 men and the Lookout Extract plant resumed operations with a force of 100. The Harvester Co. went on a four- day-a-week basis with its enlarged force. The extract company resumed opera- tions after three years of idleness The plant will operate full time, and | mecre men will be employed as business | demands. | FORD IS ERE(.)TING PLANT ! TO EMPLOY 400 MEN 200 Employes Are Constructing Factory and 100 Others Are Working on Dam Site. By the Associated Press. YPSILANTI, Mich, November 3—A hydro-electric ' plant’ and a factory lbm)dmg designed to employ 400 men under construction here in a 1.000- acre tract along the Huron Riyer owned by_the Ford Motor Co.. Ford officials have stated that 400 men will 'be empl.yed in the factory upon its completion, but have declined to comment on the nature of manufac- turing to be engaged in at the plant Rumors are current, however. that the | site will be used for he manufacture of | upholstery textiles. | ‘Two hundred Ford employes are con- structing the factory building, while two shifts of 50 men each are working on,a dam under the direction of a De- | troit contractor. Jugoslavia plans to spend $17,600,000 on its roads. of shape, and reels torn off—everything imaginable was wrong with them. It took me four days to get them all running. | I think the biggest reason they wear out so much machinery is because of | the utter indifference of the average | Russian worker. He does not care | whether §t runs or not. In faet, if it doesn’t run, he has more time to sleep, | and sleep is one thing he sure loves. | (Copyright. 1931, by the North American ewspaper Alliance. Inc OLDEST LOCOMOTIVE | ENTERS SMITHSONIAN First American Railwey !!ngine.' John Bull, to Be Shown on 100th Anniversary. oldest steam he veteran “John Bull” with its tender and passenger car, will be placed on display in the Hall of Transportation of | the Smithsonian Institute this month in celebration of 100th anniversary The old engine was operated f first_time & hundred vears ago 2. It arrived in Philadelphia iling ship from America’s locomotive. and now a part of the P . The veteran of decked with flags tral figure of the The exhibition through November s 0 good w engine. as a spec hibition. sharp blas pressed ai will put 1d December >rde: fe into Because of the intere the opening of an aer i donnel, Irish Pree Sta iwo instruet- ors are kept busy teaching young Irish- men to fly. Subscribe Today It ccsts cnly about 1% cents and § cents Sundays ::'n“‘uummn'. best newspa- per delivered to regularly every evening and Y morn- National 5000 and the delivery will start immedi- e, The 2ave L Busmess | tember, 1932 vice president of the Rotary Club, For | several years he has been a member of | the Board of Trustees of American Uni- versity and was its second vice presi- dent.” The first vice president, Merton E. Church of Falls Church, Va., died during the past year. Other Officers Named. Other officers of the board, elected for the ensuing vear, include: Pirst vice president, Edward F. Colladay, attorney, who for years has been counselor of the board; second vice president, Daniel Roper, sformer secretary of the board and former commissioner of internal revenue; secretary, Dr. H. Wilson Bur- gan, pastor of Hamline Methodist Epis- copal Church: first assistant secretary, Miss Sara H. Dow: second mssistant sec- retary, Miss Ethel M. Martin; historian Albert’ Osborn. and secretary emeritus Charles W. Baldwin. ) Plans were made by the board for the operation of the university for_the | next academic year, beginning in Sep- | Re-ele:ted to Board. These membeis were re-elected to the board of trustees for another term: | Peter M. Anderscn, architect and con- | sulting engineér; ' Willlam Frederick Bigelow, editor of Good Housekeeping magazine, New York City; Dr. Christie, | Dr. Lucius C. Clark, chancellor of American University: Josephus Daniels of Raleigh, N. C., former Secretary of | the Navy: George W. Dixon, Chicago, | Il; William J Faux, Philadelphia; | Hi H. Fleming, Kingston, N. Y.;| Delaware; Samuel R. Van Sant, ex- MASON CITY, Iowa, November 3 (#). | additional men would be added this B in our 34 years of Bishop John C. Hamilton, chancellor emeritus of Amcrican University; Rev. James C. Nicholson, New Freedom, Pa.: Clarence’ F. Noument. United States | Senator John D. Tcwnsend, jr, of Governor of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and Wilbur M. van Sant. ’ Mason City, Towa, Company Plans to Add 150 Men to Force. 1 Preparations yesterday were going | forward at a.packing plant here for an | early increase in business. “ The Jacob E. Decker & Sons' Packing Plant announced between 100 and 150 week as the result of an increase in hog-bufchering activity | 1S G 00(1 n oo | We are enjoying the finest Fall Business trading with the people of Washing- ton! We believe in good— and Business is GOOD! D. J Kaufman Grcater Valuc 2-Pts. Suits and Overcdats 25 Tempting Topcoats, $19.75 USE YOUR CREDIT | ) BUY NOw Pay ofly 1} cash. Balance in 10 weekly 5 semi-monthly payments, or Home of Smith Smart Shoes Money's Worth or Money Back DJ.Kaufman 1005 PENNA. AVE. SOUTHE AST COR 1744 ¢ Ine. ’ NEW AVE. sign soon likely to greet house hunters ing else of value in the house, a tax in France. Bus competition has forced | collector in Patulea, Bessarabla ized"” a number of raflway lines to be closed a 10-month-old baby and took it away down, and the companies e decided | with him. The father was behind in 1o rent some of the stations as dwell- his taxes and the baby was held until ing house: he paid u Funmruhé TRAL OF BRI 1 ST ARG 0 Author of “President’s Daughter”” Has Merely to Show Extent of Libel. By the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio, November 3.—Al- though held behind closed doors, the trial of Nan Britton’s $50,000 libel suit | against C. A. Klunk, Marion hotel oper~ |ator, today was belleved approsching |the end. * Newspaper men and the public wers ;hnrred from the court room yesterday, but it was intimated Miss Britton, who claims the late President Harding was the father of her 12-year-old daugh- | ter, would take the witness stand today. With her testimony, it Was understood, the evidence would be nearly completed The case, however, has e one of merely showing the extent of - cation of the book, “The Answer to the President’s Daughter.,” under a ruling by Federal Judge John M. Killits. Judge Killits held the book. accusing her of degeneracy, had libeled Miss Britton's character. Miss Britton, who set forth her charges of her daughter's paternity in the book, “The President's Daughter," sued Klunk on tie he helped | circulate “The Answer to the Preal- dent’s Daughter." Although it was reported Miss Brit- ton would take the stand today, Judge Killits said he could see no reason for her doing so because of the manner in which the care was being conducted, He seid, however, she might give re. buttal testimony within “certain limi- tations” concerning a pamphlet, “Why and How Nan Britton Wrote ‘The Pres- ident’s Daughter,’ " and about six ex- cerpts from her book expressly men- tioned in_her petition. 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