Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1932, Page 13

FARM POPULATION NEAR 1510 PEAK Many Leave Cities to Seek Plenty of Food and Shelter. By the Assoclated Press. ‘The powerful magnet of three square meals a day and a comfortable place to sleep has lured fo many persons from the city’s bright lights that the Na- tion’s farm population is approaching the record-breaking 32,000,000 estab- lished in 1910. So rapidly has the city-to-farm move- ment continued during the last three s that Department of Agriculture believe the number living on the at the end of this year will bo 1tly below the peak figure, e there is a large normal flow of | n to and from the farms, the erated drift countryward in recent | 3 s was attributed by the department | to economic conditions. Behind the city dwellers’ decision to leave, officials id, lay the belief that they could at obtain a living on a farm. 30 the drift was toward the | in that year 416,000 more ns went to the farms than the r leaving. Last year the total to 656,000 and for the first three 6\3 ?Eo‘ms year the net farm gain 263,00 31,897,000 Total Likely. Department _estimates placed the total farm population on April 1, the test date for which a compilation has | becn made, at 31504,000. If the gain made this vear should equal that for ind officials say this is possible— vould be 31,897,000. first impetus to the increased | ulation resulted from the de- young men and women then 5 in the country not to leave home,” ). B. Manny, of the department’s 2 of farm population, explained. hen there was a large number of | young people in the city who lost their jobs. They were unable to find work and so decided to return to Pa and Ma | or other relatives on the farm to live. Many of them, having had a taste of e, probably will remain on the ther contributing factor was the colored people’ who had gone ity to work. They lost their <. could find no work, and so went back to the plantations. A large group of N getting up in years who have been displaced by yvounger workers, und refuge in the country. Some n had saved up some money and e ac- increase.” main, many said, the new- aking out very well. But seen a number who were in great di s—"but no more so than if they had remained in the city.” Opposes . Action. me Representative Baldridge o sense in trying to send people to the farms when agricultural ns center on “how to reduce output of farms.” n the bill by Representative rat, New York, to create mittes to guide a “back- came before ked its passage. relief, if it's 1" the Nebraska t give the | arms some- d get anybody t on a farm?” ow where to | t's one of would do— | | oposed would abor, Ag-| Farm Loan | tor of the | et Soft Beds in Spanish Army. MADRID (#.—"You're in the army now"” has a lcss foreboding sound for Spain’s recruits. The war ministry has decreed that soldiers’ bedding be made | of soit cotton wool instead of the tra- | ditional hard esparto grass matting on | which old-timers bunked. i ———— Edinburgh, Scotland, has a wave of | housebreaking. | N 1,000 Sparkling, Richly Colored TIES 69- 3 for $2.00 DETROIT WOMAN SICK ON REACHING ENGLAND Condition of Mrs. Isabella Ridout Too Grave to Permit Questions as to Kin—Friends Are Sought. By the Associated Press. SOUTHAMPTON, England, Decem- ber 20—Mrs. Isabella Ridout, Detroit, who arrived here last Friday on the steamship Duchess of Richmond, was seriously ill in a hospital here, and to- day was growing weaker. Her condition was such authorities thought it inadvisable to question her. Her pni)m did not reveal any address of relatives, but it was known she came to England to spend Christmas with friends. A public announcement was mad: last night in an effort to contact rela- Mvesg. lbut. thus far it had been unsuc- cessful. 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Sullivan, newly elected second vice muldent of the eration of Citizens’ Associations and a member of the progressive group, al. the January meeting. Mrs. Sullivan is the first woman to hold an office in the federation. m January meet- ing will be held on the third Monday in the month. The group voted $5 to the Christmas fund et the Georgetown Boys' Club. Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, newly elect- S0 president, preslded, maming. seversl new committees for the new year. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1932. LETTER IN CODE SENT TO DAVIS’ WIFE FOUND Banker Who Committed Suicide Last Week Ordered Sale of Colorado Property. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 20.—A letter written mostly in code, authorities dis- closed last mnight, was dispatched by ‘Walter C. Davis to his wife in Cglorado | P Springs shortly before the fugitive banker’s arrest and subsequent suicide last week. The letter was glued to the !nsme of a book and the package was ad by Davis to himself at Colorado Bpnnss in the hope, officials said, that it would R::l '&ouu surveillance there and reach Detective Domonick Pape, me of the two officers who arrested here after a six-month search on a Cl 000 000 embezzlement charge, said the letter contained instructions for Mrs. Davis to sell their property in Colorado at the highest figure cbtainable, A key, believed to fit a safe deposit box, was sent to its manufacturers in x. Detectives pot, Who have been Fre worklng with Chief Hugh D. Harper of Colorado Springs on the case, said it muld probably be several days before y heard from the manufacturers. CUTTER GOES TO AID SHIP Coast Guard Vessel Is Ordered to Help Tanker, Run Ashore. NEW YORK, December 20 (#).—The Coast Guard ordered the cutter Pont- chartrain to speed today to aid the tanker steamer Hagan. which ran ashore off Cape Henry, Va. 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