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SLUMP END SEEN INRAIL SPENDING Eastman Declares Congress Must Provide Funds for Carriers. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 1—Holding that normal expenditures by the| railroads would go far to “break the back of the depression,” Joseph B. Eastman, Federal railroad co-ordina- tor, said in Railway Age today that one of the main objectives in the next Congress must be the provision of funds for the carriers. Scanning the present needs of the railways — modernization of equip- ment, new trackage, an accumulation of deferred and essential maintenance work—Eastman asserted: “It is clear that the railroads fur- nish an unusual opportunity for the useful expenditure of large sums of money, and that such expenditures would be of great benefit to the dur- | able goods industries and to the entire country. Grade-Crossing Work Urged. “I do not mean, of course, that expenditures should be made on the railroads merely for the purpose of | helping other industries. No expendi- ; tures should be made which cannot | justify themselves, ultimately, at least, in dollars and cents results to| the railroads. But even within these limits there are, or soon will be, large opportunities. Moreover, there are large and immediate opportunities for the use of public funds in the elim- ination of grade crossings which I hope will be utilized, for such a use of public money can be justified on many grounds. “The problem is, of course, to make the necessary funds available for the railroad expenditures. It is a very difficult problem, but I do not believe that it is insoluble. In any legisla- tive program for transportation im- provement at the next session of Con- gress, it must and will be kept in the forefront as one of the main ob- Jjectives.” Rail Survey Taken. The transportation co-ordinator related that he had undertaken a sur- vey of railroad operation, equipment, service and controlling rate policies. This survey, said Eastman, is ex- pected to demonstrate that operation costs can be trimmed and at the same time service improved and traffic in- | creased by using busses and trucks | to supplement or substitute for rail | equipment. SIX D. C. STUDENTS GIVEN G. U. HONORS Group Receives Nine of the 15 Academic Testimonials for First Quarter. Six local students at Georgetown College, it was announced yesterday, | won nine of the 15 academic testi- monials awarded to honor students on the basis of class standing during the | first quarter semester just ended. | Three of the local boys received two testimonials each, while Bernard J. Entner of Newark, N. J., one of the | four out-of-town honor students, also | won two awards. | The record of the Washington | students was the more unusual in | view of the fact that most George- | town students are drawn from other | cities. The awards were made at a general assembly last week. Philip A. Tumulty of Washington, a son of Joseph P. Tumulty, former secretary to the late President Wilson, was the only senior placed on the | honor list. He received two testi- monials. Awards were made to those students who achieved an average of 95 per cent or better in all their sub- jects as well as in their major sub- Jects. In the junior class, John B. Ross of | Chevy Chase, Md., and Robert A. Her- | ring, jr., of Washington each received two awards. Mr. Entner also was a member of this class. Others receiv- | ing one testimonial were Edward P. Betowski of Waverly, N. Y.; an James S. Kernon, jr., of Utica, N. Y. The winners in the sophomore class were Harold B. Chait and John C.| Gartner, both of Washington, and ' William T. Roberts of Buffalo, N. Y. ! Each received one award. | The lone freshman to score was George 1. Mishtowt of Chevy Chase, | Md. Home Products Favored. “Smoke French cigars and ciga- rettes” is being urged in France. Ann Harding, screen star and divorced wife of Harry Bannister, is pictured above with her daughter Jane, for whose exclusive custody she will ask a modification in the court decree which ended her marriage. By the Associated Press. RENO, Nev., December 1.—“Not as | an actress, but as a mother,” Ann Hearding will seek in Reno courts the exclusive custody of her 6-year-old daughter, Jane. The blond screen star announced | tonight she would file “in the very|ing” said Byron Hanna, attorney for | near future,” a motion to modify the | Bannister. decree which divorced her from Harry Bannister in 1932. Under that decree Bannister has custody of the child two months of every year. “I am in Reno, not as an actress, but as a mother who wants and has to have the right to bring up her child to the best of her judgment and abil- ity,” Miss Harding said, “and as a mother and a woman it seems a little strange to me that courts have to have anything to do with that. “But they do, and I am here to ask the court to give me the right to my own baby.” William Woodburn, Miss Harding’s attorney, said, “It is our contention that divided custody of a little girl 6 years of age is not conducive to her well being.” “This mother’s paramount consid- eration,” Woodburn added, “is what is best for her daughter.” Woodburn said the legal papers have not as yet been drawn, and the grounds for the motion have not been compiled. Miss Harding and her daughter ex- pect to remain in Reno, Woodburn said, “until this case is completed.” He had nothing to say concerning THE SUNDAY STAR, Actress Fights for Child ANN HARDING ASKS EXCLUSIVE CUSTODY OF DAUGHTER. | | reports from Hollywood that Bannis- ter would resist any effort to give his | | former wife exclusive custody of the | child. [ “Steps will be taken either in the | Nevada or California courts to pre- | vent the reported move of Miss Hard- | | Child Always Guarded. Jane is a student in & private Holly- wood school. She is accompanied to | and from classes by an armed guard, | a precaution taken by her mother to prevent kidnaping. | Miss Harding wept at the court | | proceedings which divorced her from | Bannister, whom she professed still to | love, two years ago. She had been | WASHINGT FORWARD CYCLE INBUSINESS SEEN Memorandum by Federal Economists Suggests Upward Swing. By the Associated Press. The suggestion that an upward cycle swing in business has begun was inclosed yesterday in an official memorandum, drawn by a Federal economist and circulated among offi- cials in one important Government agency. ‘Three other Government econo- mists, although unwilling to be| quoted, are known to have tenta- tively reached this same conclusion, A cyclical swing is ordinarily un- derstood to mean & long-term move- ment of business, ‘This opinion, however, is not now held by all Government experts. In fact, many of them doubt that there is such a thing as this kind of an economic cycle. There is evidence on both sides of the long-term upward swing thesis. ‘The principal tangible support of the theory is the movement of vari- ous statistical indicators against the usual trend. This does not necessarily mean that conditions now are un- usually good, but simply that the economic signals are pointing up de- spite depression forces. 550,000 More Jobless. The American Federation of Labor has reported that there are 550,000 more unemployed than in October last year. While opinion varies as to the accuracy of this figure and the Immediate significance, the economists, seeing the upward swing, hold it is one of the unfavorable factors now slowly and steadily being overcome. A major item in the analysis of the four Government economists who see an upward trend is that a compara- tively continuous forward movement in the consumption goods industries is beginning to stimulate the dormant capital goods industries. One economist reports that engineer- | ing inquiries to machine tool com- | panies are being made in great num- ber, and that the machine tool business | is better. Stock Market Stability Cited. Another gauge of the gain was cited in the stability of the stock market D. C., DECEMBER 2 Seriously 111 FORMER MISS MORROW STRICKEN IN WEST. MRS. AUBREY MARGAN, The former Elizabeth Morrow,. is in a critical condition in a hospital at Pasedena, Calif, as the result of an illness that developed after an appendicitis operation Novem- ber 10. She is the daughter of the late Senator Dwight F. Morrow, for- mer Ambassador to Mexico, and the sister-in-law of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. —A. P. Photo. CHOIR TO FEATURE ST. NICHOLAS FAIR Alexander Pyankoff Will Direct Singers at Church Benefit Wednesday Night. Numbers by the St. Nicholas Rus- sian Orthodox Church choir, under direction of Alexander Pyankoff, will feature the St. Nicholas fair Wednes- day from 2 to 10 p.m. at the Wash- ington Club, Seventeenth and K streets. Countess Elizabeth Heiden will be the principal singer in a scene from Rimsky-Korsakoff’s opera, “The Night Before Christmas,” to be presented once during the afternoon and once in the evening. Mme. Marie-Zalipsky, formerly of the Imperial Opera of Petrograd, directs this feature. Among the displays will be booth of dolls dressed in Russian clothes, metal work., wooden articles, em- broideries and hand-painted greeting | cards—some of them designed by a For the 19 weeks ended November 10 | Russian princess. the market was quieter for a longer period than it has been since the be- ginning of 1929. Considerable significance was at- tached by more than one of the economists to the Treasury’s decision to allow a comparatively free move- ment of funds out of the United States This was generally interpreted to mean that present international monetary The St. Nicholas fair is given for the benefit of the Russian church at 1717 Church street. Scots to Make Coal Gasoline. | Production of gasoline from coal is being tested in Scotland, and indica- tions point to extensive operations in an industry new to that country. Scot- | greeted affectionately on arrival by‘slabfllza(ion was to be continued |tish coal shows a remarkably high | Bannister, who established Nevada | residence for the action. Miss Harding said they could not remain happily married—they were wed in New York October 21, 1926— | because her fame had overshadowed | his career. | “We find the apparently drastic| | course of divorce,” she said. “the | quickest and best solution fo our | eventual complete happiness.” | Friendly regard was manifest in | subsequent expressions of the two. Denying rumors soon after the di- vorce that he would marry a girl | | “who resembles Miss Harding,” Ban- nister said: “They don’t make them like Ann | Harding.” | “MIDGET” AWAITING NEXT STAGE ROLE City’'s Most Talented Burro Is Understudy for Dinah in “Nobody's Girl.” A local celebrity may step into one of the most important roles when “Nobody's Girl” is presented at the National Theater Saturday by the Children’s Theater of New York. 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