Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1932, Page 4

T Ad s LOWER LIVING COST IS DENIED BY DOLAN Normal Expenses Un- changed, Head of Clerks Says, Opposing Pay Cut. Denial that the cost of living has de- creased, as contended by members of Congress favoring Federal pay cuts, was made today by Thomas F. Dolan, | president of the United National Post | Office Clerks, in a plea for maintenance | of present wage scales “It is true that foodstuffs have de- clined in price, to some extent, as have clothing =vnd rents, but the real over- head cost of life still remains,” Dolan asserted. . “Gas for home consumption, elec- tricity, telephone, water, doctor, hos- pital and dentist bills, and similar everyday expenses, have not declined in price.” Dolan's statement follows in part “Recently, during a speech. in the Senate on ‘balancing the budget’ a certain prominent Senator made the statement that a dollar today would purchase twice as much as it would three or five years ago; therefore Gov- ernment employes should be willing to accept a 10 per cent reduction, due to this alleged decrease in the ‘cost of living." Praises Huey Long. “genator Couzens of Michigan im- | mediately questioned the accuracy of this statement, but the previous speaker persisted in his bellef that the cost of {iving had been cut in half. The new and colorful Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long. interposed the statement that not only Government employes, but Congressmen as well are worth what they are being paid today and we are giad to note that this new figure in Washington has the courage to say what everybody knows to be a fact “Returning to the question of the cost of 1iving, we are fearful that those who insist that the cost of living has de- clined greatly are influenced by the reduction in the cost of foodstuffs mostly, in making this statement. * * * The cost of living has been reduced very little when we take into consider- ation the various costs in connection with the conduct of a home “Then, again, we often wonder, when ple make these statements, if they think life is governed merely by the rice of beefsteak or breakfast food— if that is all the excuse that humanity has for living; must the less favored classes always be gauged by the price of a meal, the lowest standards? Is there anything else In life for the working class of people besides three meals a day and a bed in which to sleep? Depressing Philosophy. “This depressing philosophy of life is cisely that which prevents improv- E; the standard of living of all people. In our land of superabundance, where on every hand we have hug“a stores of clothing, building supplies—every- {m to mnEe a richer and fuller life for all of our people—but as a conse- quence of the mystifying conduct of our economic system we fail to devise equi~ table methods of distribution. “In the midst of such & situation $here seems to be a sad lack of feasi- ble suggestions for improving the lot of the people. We are merely deluged with inconsequential talk about the reduced cost of living, lower salaries and wages, balancing the budget, psychological ef- fect and other meaningless captions ‘which keep us revolving in an endless circle of fefipflr." B. & 0: NATIONAL LIMITED ceremonial robes, with his mace THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1932. bearers on each side. An official of th Ambassador Mellon Welcomed in England GREETED BY MAYOR OF SOUTHAMPTON. NDREW W. MELLON, United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James, photographed as he was welcomed on board the 5. . Majestic in Southampton, England, by Mayor Wooley of Southampton ‘The mayor is in his e ship is at Mellon's right. The new —A. P. Photo. Ambassador made a short response to the mayor's welcome. NEW CUTS ORDERED N APPROPRIATIONS Senate Nears Final Action on State, Justice, Labor, Commerce Bill. The Senate may finish consideration this afternoon of the items comprising the 10 per cent cut in the State, Justice, Commerce and Labor appropriation bill, which 1t took up late yesterday after having voted to instruct the Appropria- tions Committee to make a similar slash below the House figures in the Treasury-Post Office supply bill. In ordering a 10 per cent cut in the Treasury-Post Office measure, however, the Senate first adopted the Tydings amendment to save the public buildings program from further reduction. As it came from the House, the Treasury part of the bill contained $108,000,000 for going forward with Federal building projects, of which not to exceed $15,- 000,000 is to be spent in the District of Columbla. The House allowed a total of $1,059,- .'roq AIR-CONDITIONED €. & 0. to Put0n New Air-Cooled Train o Middle West April 24. The Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad. to- day made its bid to sttract passenger trafic with the announcement that, beginning Wednesday, the National Limited, through sleeping-car train, would be air conditioned. ‘The National cperates between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash- {ngton, Louisville, Cincinnati and New York. The B. & O. pioneered with air. cooling in its dining-car service in 1930. The Chesapeake & Ohio s putting on a new air-cooled train from the seaboard to Chicago, 8t. Louis and in. termediate points April. 24. UNVEILING PLANNED Alice Deal Memorial Group to Meet Thursday. Plans for unveiling the portrait of Alice Deal in the junior high school which bears her name will be formu- lated by the Alice Deal Memorial As- sociation at 8 o'clock Thursday night in the Powell Junior High School. Miss Deal’s portrait and a memorial tablet will be placed in the Alice Deal Junior High School by the memorial association by permission Gf the Bodrd of Education. Miss Deal was one of the pioneers in the junior high school movement in the District of Columbia, and the school named for her is one of the newest and finest of its type in city. g WILL ADDRESS GUILD Women of Sibley Hospital to Hear Dr. B. Simpson Daugherty. Dr. B. Simpson Daugherty of the Memorial United Brethren Church will address the April meeting of the Wom- an’s Guild of Sibley Memorial Hospi- tel at 10:45 o'clock Thursday morning in Rust Hall, adjoining the hospital Reports will be made at the meet- ing on the linen shower recently given by the Guild for the benefit of the hospital. The ladies of Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church will be hostesses at luncheon. Mrs. T. Hay. ward Brown will sing & group of solos. LIQUOR CAR CAPTURED Owner Fails to Return to Parked Auto With Big Cargo. Tenth precinct police today were holding a high-powered touring car containing 168 gallons of whisky and equipped with a smoke screen appara- tus in first.class working order. Patrolmen H. B. Gilbert and L. M. 000,000- for all purposes in v.n;‘ Treasury and Post. office Departmen a the Senate's 10 per cent cut order di- rects the ttee to take approxi- mately $105,000,000 out of the bill, the only restriction being that it shall not reduce the public building items. Reconsideration Necessary. The Senate now has ordered 10 per cent reductions below House totals on three appropriation bills, dealing with seven executive departments of the Government. In each case, however, the Senate must again consider each bill in order to vote on the specific changes made by the committee in carrying out the 10 per cent order. The 10 per cent cuts in the Interior bill already have been ratified and that measure is in conference with the House. The Senate now is engaged in passing on the specific cuts in the State, Justice, Commerce and Labor bill. During gonsideration of this bill yes- terday afternoon, the Senate almost unmflnoua}y approved the action of its committee reducing the fund for prohibition enforcement from §11,369,- 500 to $10,250,000, but the supporters of prohibition overwhelmed two mo- tions to cut this fund still lower. Added Slash Defeated. Senator Johnson, Republican, of California stirred up the first prohibl. tion battle of the session with a pro- posal to cut the enforcement fund to $5,125,000 “in the interest of economy.” Dry leaders assalled the drastic cut and after a brief flurry defeated the motion, 42 to 17. Senator Tydings, (Democrat, of Maryland) then moved a $2,000.000 re- duction. This was defeated, 43 to 18. ‘The million-dollar slash then was ap- proved with two Opposing votes—Costi- gan (Democrat, of Colorado), and Howell (Republican, Nebraska). told the Senate, “and we all know that the kind of prohibition enforcement we get today can be obtained in ample quantity for $5,000,000. This cut will make no difference in character or quantit In applying this 10 per cent rule, which was originally sponsored by Sen- ator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, the Senate has reduced the lump sum appropriations from which salaries are paid in a number of bureaus. Bureau chiefs are without authority to alter the salary rates fixed in the classifica- tion law, so that the granting of less money for personal services means either dismissal of some employes or re- quiring the present stafls to take furloughs, Prancis found the machine parked in an alley near Sixth and Girard streets early today and took it to the precinct gtation when its driver failed to appear after a reasonable time. DANCER GETS $75,000 Bequest Will Help Her in Career, Girl, 19, Says. MoGuinness, 19, cont cing as & girl In a cafe Sunday, despite %um that she had just inherited 75,000 S elton Golden, her sttorney, an- nounced the inheritance was from the sstate of the dancer’s grandfather, James J. McGuinness, who died recently in Dublin, Ireland. *“The income from the trust fund will make it easier for me to continue my eareer as & daricer” Miss McGuinness 3 o we W v “We must face the reality,” Johnson | Fox Hounds Trained {On Gunpowder Trap Wolf in Mississippi | Dogs Chase Marauding Beast to Bay in Long, Hard Run. | By the Assoclated Press. PRENTISS, Miss, April 19.—A pack of fox hounds, trained for a wild hunt | on rations of raw meat and gunpowder, ran a wolf to bay in the Mississippi | marshiands. The hunt was run last week. Its de- | tails were told today by six men who | captured the beast and her seven | whelps. She had been killing stock up | Greens Creek way and eluded every pre- | vious attempt to take her. The Cole and Dyes families and Wil- |liam Kirkley tired of her maraudings and planned the chase. Their best fox | dogs were put on a meat and gunpowder diet and trained to follow wolf tracks. There is & story up the forks of the | creeks of this land that gunpowder will | spur the courage of any hunting dog. | " The moon was “right” late last week. | The wolf scent was easy to follow, but the running wes terrific, The wolf led the hunt through the timberlands and down to the swamps |and back to the ridges. The hunters knew she was going to her whelps and would fight, » They waited until one of the dogs | signaled that the chase was over and | the fight was on, a sharp warning to the pack that the wolf was turning. The men hurried to the scene and arrived in time to see the dogs, several slashed and sore, lprus into the battle and fell the anima! CHINESE PROVINCES STILL FEEL FAMINE | Shensi and Kansu, Hard Hit in 1920 and 1830, Reported in Precarious Condition. PEIPING (#)—S8hensi and Kansu, two of the Chinese provinces most se- verely hit by the great drought famine of 1929 and 1930, still are faced with a precarious situation, according to a report by G. Findlay Andrew, field sec- retary of the China International Fam- ine Relief Commission, who has com- pleted an inspection trip. “Localized failures of crops have caused scarcity in certain areas,” Mr. Andrew said. “Everywhere the people are living a veritable hand-to-mouth existence, as there are no reserves. Should this year's Summer harvest fail, we shall be right back in the famine days of 1929. “There will be this difference, how- ever, that improved communications, which came largely through the road- building program of the China Inter- national Famine Relief Commission dur- ing the past two years, will enable a | more ready flow of supplies.” One cheering indication noted by Mr. Andrew during his two-week journey | was the sight of wheelbarrows trundling | along with loads of second-hand build- ing material for the reconstruction of destroyed homes. | “The waiting work of rehabilitation is | tremendous,” he declared. “It will be | a good, long time before these two provinces recover from the famine ex- | periences of those terrible years.” Diamond Prospecting Banned. To lessen production, diamond pros- | pecting on private as well as government | lands in South Africa has been forbid- den for & year. MAKERS FORESEE AUTO TAX DEFEAT Manufacturers Believe They | Have Convinced Committee to Reject Levy. | There will be no let-up in the busi- ness ‘“comeback” campaign launched by the automobile manufacturers of the country, it was announced by repre- sentatives of the leading motor car builders today. | Their attitude was based on the re- ception yesterday by the Senate Finance Committee of arguments against a | spectal excise tax on motor vehicles. Although without assurance of the committee’s final attitude, they ex- pressed a spirit of optimism over fge outlook and the belief that the Senate committee had listened with a friendly ear. Earnings Fall Off. The automobile builders were repre- sented at the hearing by George M. Graham, head of the Rockne Motors | Corporation, and other prominent | manufacturers, including Edsel Ford, | Walter Chrysler and Ailfred P. Sioan, president of General Motors, attending | the hearing. They told the committee | the “automobile industry is sicker to- |day than at any time in its history," and pointed to a slump of 55 per cent in the number of cars produced to lend | emphasis to the statement. The auto- mobile industry, exclusive of the Ford plant, earned $330,000,000 in 1929, $155,000.000 in 1937 and only $66,000,~ 1000 in 1931, they said. The House has already passed measure exacting & 3 per cent tax on pleasure cars, a 2 per cent tax on trucks and a 1 per cent tax on tires, parts and accessories, Believe Committee Convinced. “We believe we convinced the com- mittee of the soundness of our argument against discriminatory taxes” Alfred Reeves, vice president and general man- ager of the National Automobile Cham- ber of Commerce, said today. “The ap- pearance of the heads of virtually every great passenger car company and of leaders of many allled enterprises can- not fail to show the unanimity with which the industry judges the justice of tts appeal to escape the burden of & ax. “We feel assured the committee rec- ognizes the two vital points that the industry is of first importance to the American wage earner and that this cannot fail to be adversely affected by the proposed excise tax. Our figures on | reduced pay rolls certainly can leave little doubt that we are both sound and practical in our view that we must in- crease employment before we can ac- complish anything else. “It seems inconceivable that the tax will be countenanced in the face of these established facts.” COMPETING WITH U S. Spanish Orange Growers Seek Mar- ket in Britain. VALENCIA () —Spanish orange {owers are concerned over competition ornia oranges are givin the London market, ~ © ¢ them in It is computed that, roughly, 60,000,- 000 cases of oranges are shipped an- nually to England from California, Africa’s share is 5,000,000 cases, while other exporters are Brazil and Jaffa. A large stafl has been sent to Eng- land to praise the merits of Spanish fruit and attempt to penetrate the Brit- ish market. Spain produces annually about 20,000,000 cases of oranges. . ‘The country commains some 14,000 hotels having 25 or more rooms. Machine Guns Guard Ohio Mine NATIONAL GUARDSMEN CALLED TO END DISTURBANCES. ATIONAL GUARDSMEN were called into action when .rioters threatened further trouble following the dis- turbances April 14 at Cadiz, Ohio, in which one man died and many others were injured. Strike sympathizers _at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber €0 coal mine jeered the troops, buk did not offex violence. Here is a machine T CloW GRAMING SaOSTY Mn-mnnflu SR IR, A, B, Bhota, IEUROPEANS HOPING FOR CHANGE BY 0.5 Stimson’s Participation in Conference Revives Old Speculation in Geneva. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Secretary Henry L. Stimson’s appear- ance in the meeting hall of the League of Nations as a member of the Ameri- can Disarmament Conference caused & mild sensation, which was only natural since very few people, even at Geneva, ever expected to see America’s foreign secretary take his place at the official table of the League. It is true that the Geneva meeting is outside the League of Nations, which is merely lending the building and its personnel for the Disarmament Con- ference; it is also true that other out- slders, such as Russia and Turkey, are at the same table at Geneva. But the has an entirely different significance from the Geneva point of view at least While Turkey is by way of becoming a member of the League and while no- body wants the Soviet Republic to join the League, everybody at Geneva hopes that Mr. Stimson's entrance in the Council chamber might mean the be- ginning of a change in America’s view- point toward the League. Geneva has always been optimistic and has again ::?muu?xgcfiled to draw inferences from ons of the St epar ment and was mv;mm_vs teatiata E Situation Is Peculiar. If Geneva's hopes are raised again today it s because of the pflr\llhx“m- ternational situation in which United States finds itself at present | , While the disarmament delegates are discussing disarmament in its various aspects and are endeavoring to frame some general resolution which will meet the approval of the principal par- ticipating nations out of the half doz- en suggestions which have been brought forward, Secretary Stimson and the leaders of the French, British, Italian and German delegations are discuss- Ing the more important side issues on which depends the whole disarmament problem. These issues are debts, reparations, | the political aspects of the German- ich and German-Ttalian situations and, as far as America is concerned, | the Far Eastern situation ' Close Interlinking Seen. It appeers today more than ever, ac. ccrding to American observers who have recently returned from Geneva and Paris, that the economic and dis- armament questions are closely inter- linked with the political dissensions between France, Italy and Germany, and the Sino.Japanese tonflict. . The reparation problem, which will come before the public only in June, during the Lausanne PFinancial Con- ference, is actively discussed at Geneva at present. Germany has repeatedly stated in official declarations from he: leaders and in private conversations between Herr Bruening and the French and the British prime ministers that she will not be able to meet her obli- gations under the treaty of Versailles and the Young plan at the expiration jof the Hoover intergovernmental debt | holiday. Everybody in Europe is con. sequently expecting a default on the part of Germany, but there are a good :‘p‘p’:“;p:‘t‘ys :'o make that default less and cof e y le: lmxénrnnt. nsequently politically ceording to certain American observ- jers. the PFrench, who hold in their hands the key to the situation, have not made up their mind as to how they are going to act when the Germans request & new indefiniate postponement of all reparation payments. It depends, it is said, on certain political arrange- {ments which may or may not be reached in the confabs between Sec- ;;;nry Stimson and the European lead- May Seek Entente. According to certain American ob- servers, the French, who have never waivered in their demands of “no dis- |armament without security,” are will- might give Prance complete confidence that whatever may happen, the United States and Great Britain would be en her side. The French are not demand- ing officially any alliances or security ,?::"J; butmit ul;ald that, if some ar- 'ments could be reached whereb; the British government would enlei into a definite agreement like the entente pact of 1905, and if the Amer- ican Government would agree to some- thing more definite than a consultative pact, France might see her way to help out the rest of the world in connection with the question of reparations and her whole attitude toward Germany. France, it is sald, would go even a step further and co-operate more wholeheartedly than heretofore for the maintenance of peace in both hemis- pheres. Secretary Stimson’s hands are tied by Congress, ‘and he could not promise anything like an American participation in a security past or any eventual re- duction of the allied war debts. But he Wwill be necessarily forced to join the other nations in exploring the possibil- Ities of getting Europe together again. The Far Eastern situation weighs heavily on the minds of the American statesmen. They are not so much con- cerned with any actual dangers of a serfous conflict with Japan, but they are concerned about the inviolability of the solemnly signed treaties and agree- ments which guarantee each of the signatories absolute territorial integrity and protection in case of an unwar- ranted aggression of any nation that may run amuck. U. 8. No Longer Isolated. The United States has the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans as the best safe- guards far her security. This country is geographically safe from any attack or Invasion. But America is no longer iso- lated economically and politically, The Eastern crisis has proved this amply. The American economic inter- ests in the Far East are of such a nature that this country cannot claim not to be interested in what is happen-~ Ing 6,000 miles away from her shores. It is this argument which is being used 8t present at Geneva by most of the European leaders who wish to see Amer- l:flu u\‘::e & greater responsibility in world It 1s said that the French, who are realists in international politics, are using the present situation in the Far East as a concrete example to show how closely interwoven are the Ameri- can interests with the interests of the Test of the world. ‘The situation in the Far East is now deadlocked. Although it is reported that the Jlmmmcglnue negotiations Will be resumed next Wednesday at Shanghal, it has become evident that no practical results may be expected. It has become more c icuous every day that the mission oolnltrle League of Nations’ delegation to investigate the Sino-Japanese conflict will be negative. overnment, while ex- of representatives ‘estern powers all the customary :mes. w;l& not. lh}l%;l u;: commis- see muc! what on in Manchuria. iR Held Own Affair, ‘The Tokio government has made % plain to the League that Japan con- siders the Manchurian situation and her dispute with China her own affair, in which no other nation has any business to interfere. Japan, self confident as she is, could not adopt such an attitude if she knew t.hlnhe’ L'!:le re:mlmc:umvwldn wtaluld form a sol loc T, On March 4 the Leagie of Nations nas m:flum Which has been in- in certain opiimistic quarters £ | presence of America’s Secretary of State | ppointed | the | |ing to listen to any proposals which | |[RECALL OF ADMIRAL STIRLING | e IS SOUGHT IN HAWAIIAN HOUSETPRBHIB"'UN PLAY Resolution Tabled for Time, Being Following Its Introduction. Legislative Committee Weigh Richardson Report Is Appointed. to By the Assoclated Press HONOLULU, April 19.—A resolution asking President Hoover to recall Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, jr. comman- {dant of the Pearl Harbor naval base. was before the Territorial House of Representatives today. The measure charged the admiral “used his official position to villify the territory” and said “his early departure would be welcomed.” It was tabled for the time being at least, shortly after it was introduced yesterday by Representative Harry T. Wills. The creation of a legislative commit- tee to consider the recent crime report of Seth W. Richardson, Assistant United States Attorney General, was proposed | Humor—Will BY CARL SANDBURG. In his younger days, H. G. Wells | wrote some books worth reading, one of them & novel called “Tono Bungay." I mention it now because you may vet be thinking on the question of why Ivar Kreuger, the Swedish match king, killed himself Of course, when any man kills him- self it is ofton a secret with himself g8 to just why he chose to send himself across the border In the case of Ivar Kreuger, however. it seems as though he followed a course somewhat like that of the main char- acter in “Tono Bungay.” Each of them strayed into flelds where a vast surplus income came rolling in Each of them sought new fields for reinvestment of the ever-fresh surplus (of earnings. Each of them built a fabric that became a Tower of Babel, a confusion of tongues. As the fabricated structure wabbled toward collapse, the weaver of it killed himself. SHORT SALES LIST BELIEVED DUMMIES Committee Members Plan to Uncover Real Principals in Stock Transactions. | By the Associated In the belief that many of the names | in the list of 24,000 short sales pre- sented for the stock market inquiry represent “dummies” for important principals, some of the Senate's Bank- ing Committee members today advo- cated uncovering the real trader: The committee held its inquiry in | abeyance until Thursday to give William A. Gray of Philadelphia, its new coun- sel, time to go through the tremendous list of transactions. Administration Senators, among them Republican Lead- er Watson of Indiana, reiterated their determination to go to the bottom ol‘ the subject and determine what in- fluences have been depressing the mar- ket. | List Kept Secretf. | The list of short traders’ names was guarded from publication, but Senators who have seen it said the great major- ity were unknown, leading to the belief | expressed by some that in the larger | | transactions_either fictitious names or | those of agents for big operators had | been used. One Senator said he would propose that the committee pick out a few of | the more important transactions and| send investigators into brokerage offices to find out who was behind them. Many new angles of the investigation were being presented to members of the committee and Senator Stelwer, Republican, of Oregon, said he would ask for an Inquiry into the publication by a certain magazine recently of the purported names of many big short traders. Publication of the names was suddenly stopped after the magazine had announced that more would be given. When the committee resumes Thurs- day. Richard Whitney, president of the exchange, will be recalled to the stand. In a sharp all-day cross-examination yesterday he testified that the market would have had to close after England went off the gold standard if short sell- ing had not been prohibited. | Will Announce Names. He refused to admit that the ban was imposed because of a fear of demoral- ization from short selling, but said it was decided upon to force the shorts to cover through buying and thus pro- vide a bolstering influence in the face of widespread liquidation. ‘The committee late yesterday adopted a resolution making the list of 24,000 short sellers furnished by Whitney un- der subpoena available to the Senators themselves. Senator Walcott, Republican, of Con- | necticut, who early in the investigation demanded that the names of the “bears" be made public, would give no assurance | that the list would be announced, but | Chairman Norbeck said they would eventually be given out. Gray, the Philadelphia sttorney, who | as a sign that the world stands together gainst Japan's aggression. But the Japanese government have not been worried about the action of the league because it believes it to be a platonic gesture. The Japanese, rightly or wrongly, are convinced that when it comes to sanctions, the world powers will decline to go further. Secretary Stimsoh is anxious, it is said, to see the Sino-Japanese conflict finally settled in accordance with the international treaties Japan has agreed to observe. Most of the other nations share his desire. But, according to political observers, the principal Euro- pean nations, and especially France, want at quid-pro-quo and are ready to tell him quite frankly that unless the American Government is willing to as- sume & full share of responsibility in all the world problems it would be idie for him to think Europe could co- operate in matters which interest Amer- ica more the Ei une in the leadting REAR ADMIRAL STIRLING. port contained comments by Admiral Stirling. Admiral Stirling was strongly eriti- cized in some cuarters of the islands because he expressed doubt that Ha- wali’s large Oriental population would be loyal in time of war, and suggested that the Federal Government make and in a second resolution. The crime re- enforce laws for the territory. Carl Sandburg’s Notebook Ivar Kreuger’s Career Likened to H. G. Wells’ “Tono Bungay”—Match King Had Touch of Rogers, Critic. It happens occasionally with big-¢ity slickers and with small-town Napoleons I would advise the reading of H. G. Wells' “Tono Bungay” by many young men and women. And as I look back at Ivar Kreuger I am sure he was not a type but an individual, perhaps a very friendly human iture under the exterior reserves of his financial face He had at least a touch of humor whim, for when he was asked to how & young man s d p at it to win a fortune he replied Ty a rich widow.” A woman who manages the book de- nertment of a large store tells me they h-d been selling two or three copies & day of “The Good Earth™ Then Will Rogers gave a sweening recommenda- tion of this book. “We soid 10 copies that day,” said our bookseller lady. “We ran out of stock and telegraphed for more " As a book reviewer who reviews no book every five years, Will Rogers 11 to the good. be. 1010 Newspaper Al North American nce, Inc.) cted most of yesterday's question- . raid he was merely laying the backgrcund and would be ready to go ahead Thursday 4,000,000 Shares Short. The real fireworks developed when ay began to question Whitney about he events following England's de- parture from the gold standard. Whitney said ciosing the Exchange had been considered, but found inad- visab'e “because it probably would have caused chaos in the banking situation.” “Did the short interests have any in- | fluence in your decision?” Gray asked ne of the factors in our decision to keep e market open and ban short selling.” Whitney replied, “was that the <horts would be driven to cover because thefr_contracts would not be covered if the Exchange closed.” “Was the large short interest and the inability of the shorts to cover & fac- tor? “Yes,” Whitney said, adding that the hort interest in the market was 4,000, 000 shares KENESS TO ‘UNCLE TOW GETS DEFENDANT OFF His resemblance to Uncle Tom of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin™ fame may or may not have accounted for the leniency received in Police Court by John York, colored. ‘Things looked dark for York yester- day when witnesses told how he was surprised in an otherwise vacant house at 120 G street southwest Friday. They said an electric light fixture was swinging free from the wall and about to drop in a bag of junk which the elderly colored man was collecting. Judge Robert E. Mattingly took York's personal bond and admonished him to stay out of vacant houses. As York turned to leave the court room the judge advised him to get a job playing Uncle Tom, as he would appear to bet- ter advantage in that character than as a junk collector. ‘“Here’s th forced three times at fit better, look better TWestminster TRIPLE SUARD $1.00 All Staple Colors and All Sizes OU'VE put it off long enough! thing to do tomorrow is to come in and ask why we sell the socks that are rein- any socks you've ever worn! But see them. Sidney West, 14th & G Sts. EUGENE C. GOTT—PRESIDENT TOBEGIVENATFAIR Mrs. Rushmore Patterson’s “Long, Long Trail” to Be Produced Tonight. ten by Mr: ington dry attraction t tion Fair Washingt. der auspices | Committee far “The Long, be the ed. Ar- for its first time it ha rangements a production in 7 liquor dered unttl it It is bein Mo lighting ef- Last night tk the Dragon S and act piay, “Killing Kathleen Norris was tomorrow night “Chal- Caroline Atwater Mason, Both are being di- Foote attracting cc lliam Ru audiences. ctor of the a contest for the statement on the subject, Prohibition to Any Other or Control.” Pirst prize, be awarded the y 1 Method of Lig and : closing day of INTERNAL REVENUE RETIRED AIDE DIES Samuel Hill Boyd, Former Deputy Commissioner, Succumbs After Two-Week Illness. zel Hill Boyd, 67, former deputy ernal revenue, died t George Washington al following an illness of about ks. He had been a resident of 7 gton and nearby Maryland since the Wiison administration, when he here from North Carolina as dep- Osborne, then com- missioner of internal revenue. Born in 1865 in Reidsville, N. C., Mr. ad lived on a farm near Sandy Spring. Md., since he left the Govern= ment service. He ma red an office in Washington as a tax consultant, however. He is s ed by three daughters, Mrs. Rocco Fanelli, Rochelle, N, Y. Mrs. Clement C. Brown of Washington and Mrs. Randolph Perkinson, Danville, Va.; three sons. Andrew Jackson Boyd and Samuel Hill Boyd, both of Sandy Spring, and Thomas Settle Boyd of Reidsville, and two sisters, Misces Bess and Margaret P. Boyd of Washington. Funeral services will be held in Wash- | ington at the Church of the Pilgrims at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The body will be taken to Reidsville for burial on Thursday. “SINGING IN BATH TUB” | IS REPLY TO COMPLAINT Samu Songs Were Too Loud, However, l Judge Decides, and Gives | Lodger 30 Days. | _ Harold J. McCartney, 35, explained in | Police Court yesterday that he was only singing in the bath tub when fellow lodgers in a Fourth street rooming house complained to police Sunday. McCartney was “making too much noise,” according to complainants, who . called police. The officer found Me- Cartney partially clothed, he told Judge Isaac R. Hitt, When the prisoner was brought up on a ¢harge of intoxieation. Among reasons why McCartney got 30 days in jail were that he was sing- ing loudly and that the bath tub hap- pened to be in a boarding house. Swedish Units 30 Years 0ld. The Swedish Coast Artillery is 30 years old. It was organized in 1902 in the reign of King Oscar II, father of King Gustav. Just Think of It— The Star delivered to your door every evening and Sunday morning at 1%c per day and 50 Sunday. Can you afford to be without this service at this cost? Telephene National 5000 and de- livery will start at once. e Answer”’ First toes and heels. They and wear longer than