Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1933, Page 10

A—=10 = THE EVENING RN PRI FING BL 5 SEECTED Democratic Measure Would Guarantee Pre-War Pur- chasing Power. By the Assoclated Press. A newly devised emergency relief plan designed to guarantee the farmer his pre-war purchasing power despite price Jductuations was the bill chosen by Democratic leaders today for aiding agriculture. For the second time members of the | House Agriculture Committee gathered behind closed doors to study its provi- | rions. A favorable report to the House was predicted by Chairman Jones not later than Wednesday. Carefully prepared by experts during the holidays, the bill would fix “a fair exchange value” for four major farm rommodities—wheat, cotton, tobaccoand | hogs. It defines this value as the ~mount which, in relation to the prices s, will represent the same ratio xisted in pre-war years. Price Depends on Season. On hogs, the “fair exchange value” is | fixed definitely at 3¢ cents a pound threugh April, 4 cents in May and June and 41 cents for the remainder of the 1933 marketing year proclaim “a fair exchange allowance.” U. S. CONTROL ASKED | U. 8. Commerce Chamber Would | By the Associated Press. Minute Mysteries Solution to TEA FOR TWO. (See Page A-3.) Mrs. Jones said she had been asleep in the living room for 30 minutes and when she returned to the kitchen she found every- thing as she had left it except for the dead body. Yet Officer Roach found HOT biscuits on the table. THE FAULT RESTS WITH THE GODS WHO HAVE MADE HER SO STUPID.—GRESSET. UPHOLDS CONGRESS ON REFERENUN |Palmer Says National Gov- ernment Has Right to Regulate Conventions. By the Assoclated Press There is no doubt that Congress has | the right to call and regulate the time | |and manner of State conventions for FOR WATERWAY'S | consiceration of the repeal of the clght- | eenth amendment, A. Mitchell Palmer, | Attorney General in the Wilson cab- inet, declared yesterday. He took issue with Representative Beck, Republican, of Pennsylvania, who has doubted the right of Congress to| call the conventions, Said Mr. Palmer: | “The Constitution is a covenant made by the people” and “the people have the sole right to decide whether the | Constitution should be changed.” Reduce Competition Among Rails, Highways and Ships. competition the farmer pays for commodities he | highway transportation systems through | | regulation have been advanced by a special committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. mental supervision of domestic ocean, | lake and river shipping much like the present railroad regulation. The Secretary of iculture would | of highway transportation would be left i i to the States, but uniform regulations | Eighteen suggestions for lessening among rail, water and The suggestions called for govern- Direction This would be the difference between | Were outlined. The committee said the | the “fair exchange value” and the price | actually received at local markets. An adjustment charge equal to the | Federal Government should give up its | inland waterway barge lines. | “The committee agrees,” & statement “fajr exchange allowance” then would | from the chamber said yesterday, “that be levied on “the first domestic proces- sing.” entitled to an “adjustment certificate” |U on his share of the estimated domestic | in the losses which are | inequitable to shippers whose interest | should go into great detail in regulating To obtain this certificate—which | is in dependable service and conditions.” the methods of calling and holding consumption. would have the same unit value as the adjustment tax or “fair exchange al- lowance”—the farmer would have to agree to a 20 per cent acreage reduc- | tion or, in the case of hogs, to a 20 | per cent tonnage cut and a limit of | 210 pounds on the average hog lot | weight. | Seek Steady incomes. ‘The certificaies would be redeemable at the Treasury, half in the first six months of the marketing year and the rest in the last six months. The “fair exchange allowance” would be raised or lowered by the Secretary of Agriculture as required by commodity price fluc- tuations, so the producers’ incomes would remain steady. | A motion was pending before the | committee to eliminate hogs from the | bill. In an open telegram to Jones, | the Institute of Meat Packers said the bill would “impair if it did not actually | destroy the adequate daily cash market for hogs.” | The telegram, signed by William W. Woods, acded: “We regard the pro- posal as an injustice and danger to the live stoc” industry.” | TWO HELD IN THREAT | TO MURDER GIRL, 18| Wire Frame Manufacturer Aided | by New York Police When $1,000 Is Demanded. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, January 2—Two men | were arrested yesterday on a charge of threatening to kidnap and kill the daughter of Valentine Watrell, wire gl(%; manufacturer, unless he pald Watrell sent his 18-year-old daughter out of town and turned the case over to the police after receiving the extor- tion demands. The prisoners, arrested when one of them allegedly sought to collect the money, were booked as John Nitoli, 24, and Adam Pan, 17. P S RPN AR D. C. COUPLE IMPROVE Special Dispatch to The Star. | DANVILLE, Va., January 2.—Mr. and Mrs. Gordon' Burch of =Washington, D. C, are at the home of Mrs. Burch's | parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Steel, re- cuperating from injuries sustained in | an automobile accident on the Wash- ington-Danville highway. Mrs. Burch suffered a lacerated scalp | and her husband cuts about the face and chest. They were patients at a| Richmond hospital for several days be- fore coming to Danville for their be- Iated visit. | unregulated competition with regulated And every producer would be | forms of comparable transportaticn is unfair, contrary to the public interest | caused, and | See All the Interesting Things Have you heard all about Jelleff’s many services to make feet happy and comfortable? Here they are—and re- member, they apply to both men and women. your aching o We lengthen shoes that are too short. (As you can see in the illustrations). Take another look Mt Businessman/ » &bUSIIlesS o S Do you know how many people there are at the other end of the line who are at this moment reading your advertisements ? Do you keep your telephone door always open? enter by this door? You can do this by keep phone number constantly your advertising. On your your bills. Tell your customers how wi to come to your store by them again and again. Do you invite your customers to ing your tele- before them in stationery. On elcome they are telephone. Tell It will bring results that may surprise you. In this way your telephone will be worth more to you, for it is one 5{; the of those things whose value grows with use. | governments” and that consequently the Compact With States Seen. Palmer said Beck took the position, in a recent speech in the House, that “the Constitution was the result of a compact between the States as sovereign | State governments should have complete control of the proposed conventions. “If there is any one question which the Supreme Court has repeatedly and clearly decided, it is that the Consti- tution was the creation of the sovereign people and not a compact between the States,” Palmer said, adding: “The Supreme Court has further de- cided that when the legislatures act in ratifying or refusing to ratify Consti- tutional amendments, they are perform- ing a Federal function granted by the people, and that the Congress has the power to prescribe the time within which action shall be taken * * =, “It is not necessary that Congress New We Can Do o We widen shoes that are too narrow. We convert suedes into leather. We correct shoes that gap and vamps that cut, We dye and tint leather and fabric shoes. Not paintéd! First Floor 3 shabby smooth THE NEW elle S 1216-1220 F STREET STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 2 1933. these conventions, or interfere unduly with the ordinary functions of a State. ‘There need be no conflict of jurisdiction in the exercise of a purely national power by the people themselves. In order to assure prompt action, it is only necessary that Congress do four things: | (1) Fix the date of elections; (2) set the limit of time thereafter within which the conventions shall assemble; (3) announce the principle which shall govern the nomination and election of delegates so that the issue shall be fair- ly and directly l)reunted to the people, and (4) pay all expenses of elections and conventions.” Palmer sent a_brief of his arguments | to members of Congress. Several weeks | ago he issued another elaborate brief in support of his ideas, and it was with 1thls that Representative Beck took ssue. | Special Dispatch to The Star. KANSAS CITY, Mo, January 2.— City Power & Light Co. face the pros- | pect of serious talks with their sweet- hearts over the problem of marriage, | now that a general order has been | issued by company officials establishing | a new rule on employment of married Foreign Vessel First to Dock at| women. A |~ The question to be decided is whether Richmond in 33 Years. | to visit the marriage license bureau be- RICHMOND, Va. January 2 (®.— | ;:;;tlu!y 1, 1933, or break the engage- The British Jack flew at the Richmond | "T3"an official bullétin the company docks yesterday from thefirst foreign | announces that no married women vessel to dock here in 33 years, and | hereafter will be employed, that mar- hundreds of Richmonders turned out | fied women now employed will not be to visit the Baron Elibank. woman is considering matrimony the ‘The craft brought to Richmond a | marriage must take place before next cargo of 500,000 pounds of refined | July 1, for after that time any woman Cuban sugar for the Hershey Corpo- ( employe of the company who marries ration. will be dismissed. Young women employed by the Kansas | dismissed, but that if any unmarried | |UTILITY COMPANY FIXES DEADLINE /ON WOMAN EMPLOYES’ MARRIAGE Kansas City Power and Light Firm Seeks to Make More Jobs for Men by Order Against Cupid. “We purposely give them plenty of time to decide on marriage,” sald an official of the company. “And, you see, we included June for those who prefer the month of brides.” Two hundred women are employed by the company. Officials of the power company said they first discussed the dismissal of all the 54 married women employed by the organization, but department heads complained that it would cut down efficiency. Running through a card index, one of these department heads cited case after case of women who are supporting several dependents. “Here's a woman with four children whose husband lost an eye a year ago and hasn't been able to work since,” he pointed out. “Here's another who sup- ports her widowed sister and two chil- dren. Many of these women are wives of men who formerly held good posi- FLORIDA PRISONERS LAUD FAIR OFFICERS Scroll of Appreciation for Treat- ment Presented State Farm Head. By the Associated Press. RAIFORD, Fla, January 3.—As & protest against “reports which have been generally circulated through the country that those from the North are not accorded good treatment in the penal institutions of the South,” 12| Northern_and Western inmates of the Prison Farm yesterday L. F. Chapman with a | scroll of appreciation for his treatment | © e scroll said l e scrol that “you and your subordinate officers treat all prlwny:rs, regardless of nationality, color or creed with the same fair and impartial con- sideration.” Yesterday was the first anniversary presented Supt. tions, but have lost thelr jobs because of hard times.” i of Chapman’s ma - m%z:un. nagement of the in. prisoners were from the Stat of New York, New Jersey, Ohilo, Pem: sylvania, California, Minnesots, Ari- zona, Michigan and Maryland. At the ceremony, planned without the knowledge of Chapman until yesterday, the superintendent also was presented with & floral wreath. Otto H. Roberts, a prisoner from New York, acted as chairman and A. L. Wanamaker, Min- ROXY UNDER KNIFE }'&nor Operation Is Performed in New York Hospital. NEW YORK, January 2 (#)—8. L. 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