Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1933, Page 7

D. C. DRY ARRESTS - TOTAL 94INNONTH November Record of 125 Cut by 31, According to Prohibition Director. Arrests by Federal prohibition officers ‘ in the District of Columbia dropped from 125 in November to 94 in Decem- ber, according to statistics made public by_Director of Prohibition Woodcock. ‘The number of cases placed on the docket of courts dropped off during the same period from 120 to 40, verdicts The following articles is one of s series showing how industrial condi- tions in foreign countries affect Ameri- can workmen. Merwin H. Browne. the writer, is & member of the Washington bureau of the Buffalo Evening News. BY MERWIN H. BROWNE. The “Buy British” movement, fos- tered by Great Britain to speed pros- perity within the empire, has extended to the United States, and gullible Amer- of guilty fell down 3 to 2, pleas of guilty from 140 to 89, acquittals and nolle prossed cases from 16 to 9 and | the number of unfinished cases remain- | ing on the docket dropped during the | period from 215 to 155. | The average sentence in November | was 64 days, as compared with 55 days | during December, and the average fine | $137 in November, as compared to $142 | in_December. | Permanent injunctions dropped dur- | icans, lured by the will o’ the wisp of low prices, are buying British goods to the impoverishment of American fac- | tories and firesides. Secemingly at the very moment when | Americans from coast to coast are be- ginning to realize that to patronize home industries means increased em- | ployment for American workers, the startling information comes that foun- | dations are being poured, and skyscrap- | ers erected, with British cement, alleg- ing the same period from 5 to 3, and | edly dumped into the domestic market | judgments of forfeiture increased from none to 23. | Auto Seizures Decline. Automobile seizures dropped from 51 to 46, stills seized | that in_the tremendous business area 2 for each month: ms:‘i‘z’;;’c_s‘hsfsfl:}'surru\mfling New York City relief con- | dropped from 193 gallons to 139 gal- lons. Selzures of spirits dropped from 1,984 gallons to 1,692 gallons, and wine from 55 gallons to 4 gallons. For the country as a whole the sta- tistics showed fines totaling $1.923,195 were nssessed against 14,714 viclators of the dry laws during the last months. persons were sentenced to serve an ag- gregate of 8,436 years in jail. For the country the bureau figures showed seizures last month included 95,781 gallons of beer, 133,509 gallons of spirits, 36,037 gallons of wine, 1,366 stills and 1,135 automobiles and boats. This compared with 135,993 gallons of | This is beer, 167,661 gallons of spirits, 32,651 gallons of wine, 2,111 stills and 1,046 automobiles and boats the same month & year ago. Six Months’ Seizures, Seizures during the six months ended with December were 1,177,963 gallons of beer, 751,868 gallons of spirits, 142,- 367 gallons of wine, 8,367 stills and 6,479 automobiles and boats. Cases originated by Federal officers last month in which arrests were made totaled 6,067 compared with 5,746 a year ago. The average fine assessed was $121 and the average sentence was 163 days mfinst $216 and 201 days for December, EX-GRID STAR HELD AS DEATH PLOTTER Former Southern California Cap- tain Accused of Attempt to Have Wife Slain. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 13.—As the result of. what police charge was his plot to have his wife slain, Gerald A. Oralg, 39, captain of the 1916 Uni- versity of Southern California foot ball team, is held in the City Jail on a police charge of attempted murder. Chief of Detectives Joseph F. Taylor accused C: of planning to pay & killer $300 to t Mrs. Ethel Craig, his 40-year-old wife, to death with a steel bar in theif home, so he might control of a joint estate estime’ 2t $90,000. Detective Lieut. Thomas B. Bryan, posing as “Buckeye” Bryan, an Eastern gangster, said he approached Craig saying he had learned he had “a killing .” Bryan alleged Oraig offered him $100 to kill his wife, but later agreed to give $300. Craig denied any knowl of the plot. Mrs. Craig said the only intima- tion she had of an estrangement be- tween herself and her husband came several weeks ago, when she “suspected him of being interested in another ‘woman.” Craig is superintendent of a truck e. Mrs. Craig is the former Ethel couey of Los Angeles and is prom- | ment in club circles. | PR R More than 5000 foreign girls and women are working as domestics in For the same period, 17,725 | caused by England’s abandonment of | | is this area which is feeliny | in which contracts calling for the use over the American tariff wall, at de- based currency prices. Indeed, Government officials have | been shocked to learn in recent months | struction, ordered for the sole purpose | | of providing work for part of America’s | vast army of the unemployed, has util- | | ized British and not American cement Robbed of Labor. | | The influx of British cement into | America followed closely the deprecia- | |tion of the British pound sterling, | the gold standard. In 1931, over 200,000 barrels of the foreign product were im- ported by American dealers. This meant, according to sworn testimony from leaders of the American cement industry, that American workmen were cheated of 25,000 man-days of hire, estimated on the basis of 62.5 man-days of labor directly concerned in the manufacture of 1,000 barrels of cement, and 62.5 man-days of labor in- directly concerned in collateral activi- ties. In other words, had the British cement not been imported, American workers would have had 25,000 addi- tional days of labor. As in other industries, it seems in- credible that such a bulky commodity as cement from abroad can compete satisfactorily with the domestic prod- uct in this country. Yet it threatens to snatch the American market from the American producer, and although but a comparatively small amount of the foreign products has been imported, it has already paralyzed the price level of the domestic industry. The area within a 100-mile radius of New York City is the great cement pro- ducer of America, if not the greatest cement producing area in the world. It so strongly the British competition. It is this area of American cement have been broken, so that British cement might be used, and it is in this area where the Ameri- can manufacturer is beginning to be shouldered from the picture. One cement manufacturer alone told Gov- ermnment officials that in Newark, N. J., where he formerly sold his product to 16 wholesale cement dealers, 14 have leserted to the British product. Matches Domestic Quality. “Ordinarily,” says a brief submitted to the Treasury Department in behalf of the American manufacturers, * would be fair criticism that-such a small importation would amount to no more than a flea bite on this industry, but the circumstances under which a small quantity is imported, coupled with the constant quotation of prices below our cost of production, plus the ability 1o deliver to our market up to 10,000,000 barrels a year, constitutes a serious menace. It has been impossible for domestic mills to raise their price struc- ture to their cost of production, much less to a figure which would permit them to make a profit.” One of the chief difficulties faced by GINGER ALE 12 LARGE BOTTLES; CONTENTS England. REAL CLOTHING VALUE .ol AF MAN CAN WELL AFFORD Semi-Annual SALE LANCGCROCK Fine Clothes RICE -EVERY THE EVENING FOREIGN CEMENT THREATENS TO RUIN AMERICAN INDUSTRY “Buy British” Movement Takes Hold Here as Imported Product IssSold Below U. S. Production Cost. American producers is that the British cement matches fully in quality and strength the cement produced by the most efficient factory in the United States. A comparison of prices shows that the American cement is selling in New York today at $1.54 a barrel. The fact that it costs $1.25 to produce that bar- rel of cement shows how closely the American manufacturer has trimmed his price to meet the British competi- tion. The American price of $1.54 is equal to 90 cents a barrel at the mill. This makes the American price actually 30 cents below the cost of production. On the other hand, the British agents | are offering British cement in the New York market at $1.35 a barrel. Taking the British price, and deducting there- from 23 cents for tariff ‘uty, 38 cents for ocean freight, 10 centsWor lighterage and storage, 4 cents for demurrage, 1 cent for insurance, 10 cents sales cost of the New York agent and 12 cents packing, the price at the British mill is brought down to 37 cents a barrel. Comparing this 37-cent cost at the mill in England with the total pay roll of 37 cents a barrel in America, the domestic manufacturer complains, what possibility is there of the American in- dustry making an adequate defense? Resist American Price. “How does that affect our indu: the American manufacturers ask viously, the quotation of any quantity— the offering of any quantity to the trade buying from these United States mills at a price lower than the current market price of the domestic cement, creates in the mind of the buyer the thought that he should get the cheaper article—not cheaper in quality, because the quality is the same, but cheaper in price. As a result, these buyers are constantly endeavoring to pull down the American price. “Unless this industry can get back to its cost of production, then first the lit- tle fellows are going, and some have al- ready shut down, and then the bigger fellows, and lastly the companies at the top will close down, and we mean the companies that have plenty of capital to last through an ordinary storm. “We are complaining because our busi- ness is in jeopardy, and it is in jeopardy because control of the market price situation has passed beyond us.” Official import figures show that the American, cement manufacturers are not frightening themselves with a self- created bugaboo. Comparing seven- month figures in 1931 and 1932, Eng land more than tripled her cement ex- ports to the United States. Between January and August, 1931, Great Britain shipped 14,765,846 pounds of cement to the United States, with an average value of $0.381 a hundred pounds. During identical months in 1932, Britain’s shipments to the United States aggregated 54,866,400 pounds, with an average value of $0.190 a hun- dred pounds. Belgium, too, has shown that it is not KA Girls’ Chinchilla, Camel-pile and Novelty Cloth COATS $2.59 Smartly styled; gray, navy, tan and brown. Broken garments; plain and brocade fabrics; cor- .settes, 36 to 48; step-ips and girdles, 28 to 36. Made of ag- jor round- Biread _cotton: wide hems; will wear and laun- STAR, WASHINGTO TEN AR ARESTED N THEFT SERES Several Hundred Dollars in Food and Clothing Taken From Stores Recovered. More than 20 grocery and clothing store burglaries in the third precinct within the past six months were thought solved today with the arrest early this morning of seven colored men and three colored women and recovery of several hundred dollars’ worth of food and clothing. Thousands of dollars’ worth of loot has been taken by the gang, police say. Acting on a tip, Precinct Detectives | J. W. Shimon and W. 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