Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1932, Page 4

' " A4 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. - C, TUESDAY, New Members OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF G. N. C. C. BUSINESS LEADERS SEE PRICE UPTURN Buffalo Advertising Official Says Interviews Indicate Time to Buy. Special Dispatch to The Star, BUFFALO, N. Y, July 26 (NAN.A). —Interpreting current business condi- tions in the light of his contact with the heads of many of the big business concerns in this country, Alex F Os- born, vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Inc., advertising firm, believes the low point in com- modity prices has been reached and expects a slight upturn soon. “In my contacts with the heads of big businesses.” Ms id, find about at the ti buy against tk e been awail s, but that the b will buy, f Hog Price Increase. “Althcugh the increase in the b “During the boom year mists were wrcng when, analyzing the whole situation, they sald it could not be very bad because commodity prices had not been inflated, although they | assailed the purchase of stock &nd | other such activity characteristic of | the period. | “The econcmists in 1928 and 1929 did not think ccmmodity prices were Today those prices are still This is a good indichtion that rcy are at the botlom now. Big Hope Is Demand. now is that there will commodities on the | uvers, who need the mmodilies anyway, and who are ex- pected to buy before prices rise. Buy- ing makes commodity prices go up and kes conditions slightly better all tantial business months, how- | n longer than | Osborn believes that Buffalo is | everal of the larger | nomic conditions arc :ffalo is handling its own he said, and is doing it suc- Cities like New York, Detroit | he pointed out, are experienc- with its con- rly over wel- | North Amesizan News- | T Ine.) GARNER WILL EXPLAIN FARM AID TO “DUMB" | ‘Wife Writes Man So Described by Curtis of Speaker’s Ability on Subject. By the Associcted Press. | UVALDE, Tex, July 26—Speaker John N. Garner is both able and willing to explain farm relief to A. J. Living- ston of Spencer, Iowa. whom Vice President Curtis in 1928 considered | “too dammed dumb” to understand the subject. Mrs. Garmer, who acts as secretary to the Democratic vice presidential | nomine¢, so notified Livingston in a letter written yesterday. She answered for the Speaker, she said, because he | was resting out in the woods. ¢ - Arr: ents for Garner to speak at Spencer depend, however, on ‘the | wishes of Gov. Franklin D, Roosevelt | and the NaMonal Campaign Committee. | Mrs. Garner sald the speaker -would | let them meke out his schedule. | 618 12th St. -capacity of chairman of the Executive | | Lachlen. GEO. D. HORNING H. L. RUST. Een T. Webster, president of the wa ion Board of Trade, today ap- pointed A. C. Case again to act in the | Committee of the Greater Natlonal Capital Committee. The entire Execu- | tive Committee was reappointed and two additional members added. Curtis| Hocges, executive director of the G. N. | . C., was also reappcinted. Besides Mr. Case, the officers reappointed are: ¢ Francis G. Addison, jr., treasurer; Rob- ert Cottrell, secretary, and George Plitt, vice chairmzn. The newly elected mem- bers of the Executive Committee are J. D. Kaufman and H. L. Rust, active | members of the organization during the last year. Other members of the Executive Committee are Robert V. Fleming, George W. Offutt, W. W. Everett, Lloyd B. Wilson, D. L. Moorman, E. C. Gra- ham, Charles W. Morris, Merle Thorpe, Edwin C. Brandenburg and L. P. Mc- Since_its organization last year the G. N. C. C. has brought approximately 200 conventions to the city and has publicized the attractions of Washing- ton in hundreds of publications. MEXICAN CITY ROCKED Quake at Colima Wrecks Buildings, but No One Is Hurt, MEXICO CITY, July 26 (#).—A dis- patch from Colima last night said, the Tesidenis of the city were driven inte the streets in terror yesterday by two sharp earth shocks. Some houses that were weakened by the June shocks, which severly damaged the town, collasped, but no deaths were orted. The dispatch sald other towns nearby were affected by the shocks which, like the .others, l})-cpuenlly had their epicenter in' the ific Ocean. 618 12th St, | matter of American recognition of the PITTMAN CONFERS WITH ROOSEVELT Nevada Senator Believed to Have Urged Nominee to Visit Mining States. By the Assoclated Press. ALBANY, N. Y, July 26—Senator Key Pittman of Nevada brought Gov.| Franklin D. Roosevelt tidings of Demo- cratic prospects in Nevada and neigh- boring States today. The Governor’s friends thought Pitt- man also would bring an urgent in. vitation to the candidate to push his| speaking tour into the State of silver | and gold mines toral votes, it is considered representa- by the Roosevelt managers of States where the vote is fairly evenly divided. Nevada cast 18300 | votes for Hoover and 14,000 for Smith. | To the list of advisers whom the| vernor has consulted since his nomi- m on national and international affairs yesterday was added Walter Duranty, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, who lunched with Mr. Roosevelt and informed him of af- fairs in_Soviet Russia, where he has been stationed for 10 y 1 did the intervicwing this time” E ernor. Mr. Roosevelt did not reveal the trend of his conversation with Duranty, but the conference was seen as possible preparation for a declaration by the Governor of his attitude toward the Soviet. | Gov. Joseph B, Ely of Massachusetts | is expected to be & luncheon guest | VICE PRESIDENT GOES | TO OPEN OLYMPIAD Hoover Greetings Borne to Athletes of World for Opening Cere- monies Saturday. Bearing with him a greeting from President Hoover, Vice President Curtis left here last night for Los Angeles to represent the President in opening the Olympic games Baturday. The Vice President also carried the Distinguished Flying Cross awarded by Congress to Amelia Earhart Putnam for her solo transatlantic flight. He will present the cross to Mrs. Putnam at Los Angeles. It is the first departure from the Capital by Mr. Curtis since his renomi- nation for Vice President by the Re- publicans, but he will withhold any campaigning until after his notification exercises next month. ‘This ceremony will be held at Topeka, Kans., the home of Curtis, about Au- g\;sidls. although the time has not been ed. The Vice President hopes to return from Los Angeles to Topeka in time to vote in next Tuesday's primary election. He is making the trip West aione, — O — Students Arrested. MEXICO CITY, July 26 (#).—Several university students were detained by police yesterday during a demonstr: tion against “dictatorships,” part larly the rule of President Gerardo M: chado of Cuba. The police stepped in and arrested four or five students who got too en- thusiastic in their addresses in the uni- versity assembly O@WASHINGTON"’ Bears Learn Gong Means Dinner and Amble Into Camp By the Associated Press. MOUNT BAKER NATIONAL | | PARK, July 26.—Smart Mount Baker bears have learned trict | |Walton apd Country School Superintendent Attract Major Attention. amble to camp when the dinner OKLAHOMA HOLDS gong rings. | The cook summoned the men to meals by hammering a huge triang’e. The bears soon associ- ated the scene of food with the gong. and the men encouraged them by tossing offerings from the dinner table. Now upward | | of a dowen bears ere o-ompt ar- rivals at meal time. JAPAN WILL NAME By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, July 26—A de- | superintendent with the same name as | Will Rogers, the humorist, today held the principal interest among candidates |as Oklahoma voters participated in a run-off primary. J. C. (Jack) Walton, attempting a RUNOFF TODAY | posed Governor and a country school ! JULY 26, 1932. mnorunulmemg:un.udim James A. (Big Jim) Harris, Republican | leader of a few years ago, are ri for the Republican senatorial nomina- | tion. The only congressional contests, all Democratic, find W. W. Hastings, vet- eran second district Representative, op- | posed by Alex Johnson, Okmulgee oil and lawyer; Tom D. McKeown, | incumbent, meeting Bart Aldridge in | the fourth district, and P. B. Swank, incumbent, competing with O. B. Mothershead, former State bank com- missioner, in the fifth district. ‘Wembly, England, has an epidemic of <harity-collection-box thefts. Ibanez Leaving Chile. who is rety ht and will continua a; Open All Day on Saturday SANTIACO, Chile, July 26 (#).—For- mer President-Dictator Carlos Ibanez, 1g to exile “at the re- quest” of the provisional Socialist gov- ecrnment, arrived at Puella, Chile, last o) cross the bor- KWANGTUNG ENVOY churia Purpose of New Appointment. By the Assoctated Press. TOKIO, July 26.—The government decided today, for the purpose of unify- ing the Japanese administration in Manchuria, to appoint a commander in chief provis.-nally, clothed with powers of special to be governor of Kwangtung 'and to control the South Manchuria Railway. As an envoy he would be under the political comeback for the fourth time since he was removed as Governor in | 1923, is opposing A. S. J. Shaw, former ! State auditor and treasurer, for Demo- Although Nevada has only three elec- [pifying Administration in Man- cratic nomination to the Corporation Commission. Pitted Against Woman. Rogers, whose vote in the first pri- mary was not even counted by unoffi- | cial "tabulators until some one discov- | ered he had an amazing total, is pitted against Mrs. Mabel Bassett, State com- missioner of charities, for Democratic nomination for Congressman-at-large. Gov. William H. 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