Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1935, Page 23

* WAR WAVE GUTS ITALIAN J0BLESS Plants Producing Materials for Use in Conflict Active. Opposes Husband’s Candidate By the Associated Press. i A war boom was credited by the Commerce Department yesterday with slashing Italy’s uneraployment to the “lowest mark in recent years.” But the wave of intense activity was restricted largely to industries producing materials useful for conflict between nations. The department added, also, that need for money to pay for increasing “special purpose” imports had made financial problems more acute. The Italian industrial production index for May, latest available figure, ‘was up 26 per cent from May last year, and these gains have been extended. Some Imports Up. ‘While imports for “normal pur- poses” were greatly reduced in the first six months, the department stated in a general survey of current Italian economic conditions that other im- | ports were up. This “normal purpose” drop was al- | most entirely wiped out by “larger | takings of a selected list of raw and | semi-manufactured materials,” the ! report said, “for industriai use.” While full figures were lacking to show how much Italy had reduced its gold reserve to pay for imports, the department said about 300,000,000 lire | of gold was converted into foreign ex- | change between June 10 and July 20. | Ttaly suspended the gold reserve re- quirements for backing of its currency in July “to facilitate the wiping out of arrears in supplying exchange for import purposes.” “Unemployment continued to de-| eline in July,” the report said, “owing | to seasonal agricultural requirements, the departure of laborers and troops to East Africa and re-employment occasioned by intensified industrial activity in certain branches. Full Capacity Plants. - ! “Certain branches of industrial | production, such as steel and metal- lurgical, mechanical. munitions, auto- | motive, certain sections of chemical | and cotton and wool industry, and the shipyards, are working at full capacity; in other branches, however, seasonal stagnation and the difficulty arising from import restrictions have curtailed activity. * * * ‘“‘Automotive activity is concentrated on Government orders, a reduction of private passenger car production be- ing reported. Cotton arrivals, par- ticularly America, increased during July and demand is active; cotton stocks at the end of May were con- siderably lower than a year earlier.” Despite the reduction in gold re- serve, the report noted an increase in currency circulation from 12,918,000,~ 000 lire on June 10 to 13,266,500,000 July 20. The trend of interest rates was up. —_— D. C. YOUTH, INJURED IN CRASH, IMPROVING William Wood Badly Hurt in Truck Accident Near Leonardtown. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., August 25.— William Wood, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George L. Wood, 3618 i Thirty-f o urth street, Washing- ton, D. C., was in a “‘much im- proved” condition in Union Me- morial Hospital here Jast night after his serious injury August 15, when a laundry truck he was driving over- turned four times near Leonard- town, Md. At first it was not be- lieved the youth would recover from his injuries. He suffered a collapsed lung, brain concussion and internal injuries. Wood, who was graduated from Western High School in June, was employed during the Summer months as a truck driver for the Elite Laun-| dry Co., of which is uncle, A. W. Fields, is president. While covering his territory his truck skidded, and after turning over, crashed into a telephone pole. Upon learning of the accident, the youth's father and Dr. George G. Finney of Baltimore chartered an airplane and were rushed to Leonard- town, where young Wood had been taken to a hospital. He was then transferred to the Baltimore hospital by ambulance. It is hoped Wood will be sufficiently recovered by opening of the school term to attend Maryland University. His father is a Post Office inspector. InfantryMarches Thing of Past, Says Dern at War Games Full Use of Motor Trans- port Made in Recent Movements. By the Associated Press. The long and tiring marches for foot soldiers were called a thing of the past yesterday by Secretary Dern. He made the observation in pointing out that the Army for the first time in history had made full use of motor transportation in concentrating trooos for the maneuvers at Pine Camp, N. Y. Dern expressed his satisfaction with e contributions the maneuvers had de to national defense fust before Jeaving to =ttcnd the war games that @re being fought by nearly 50,000 Regular and National Guard troops in While Senator Theodore Bilbo stumps the State in the interest of the Mississippi gubernatorial candidacy of public support to the race Paul B. Johnson is making for Governor. Mrs. Bilbo is shown above scanning one She accuses her husband of “insincerity” in supporting White. A Million—To Look At Bureau Shows Its New Exhibit. BY DON BLOCH. ESS than 10 setonds away from the street entrance, and covered only by a quarter of an inch of window glass, lie $1,400.498 in bills, $92,826 in stamps, and the | dies to run off enough more real | the display. money to make Croesus look like a pauper. There's little use to get excited | about it, however, as it's part of the new exhibit of the Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing showing the techni- cal aspects of the birth of stamps, bonds, and currency. It's out in the floors and walls and, although little is said on the subject, there are suf- ficent gongs, bells, guards and other | protective devices strewn unobtrusive- ly around to take fair care of the display. i May Become Permanent. The layout of original sketches, ap- proved designs, first engravings and final specimen plates with samples | rency, and securities—was planned | primarily as a supplementary exhibit | Zor visitors to the recent National | Stamp Convention. It has remained, explained Alvin W. Hall, director of | the Bureau, as much for employes to | see what their co.workers are doing, as for the hordes of tourists who daily | make the trip through. It may stay put as a permanent floor exhibit of the bureau. | Flanked by $2,500,000 worth of sam- ple money and bonds, including the: | main lobby, ranged about in cases on | THE SUNDAY 8§ t Hugh L. White, his wife is lending the the latest campaign circulars. —A. P. Phcto. Alluring Wares In | rarely seen and little known $100.000 bill which bears a likeness of Woodrow Wilson, together with a vast wealth | of various types of stamps issued from | the bureau’s presses, the center-floor cases contain the newest portion of | Placards in abundance explain to| the layman the three types of print-| | ing used by the bureau in its proc- esses—the relief, planograph and in- taglio. Both postage stamps and cur- | rency are printed by this latter means, | which insures the fine quality of the | product turned out. New Certificate Shown. Perhaps the most interesting of the | cases, one at the extreme north, shows the evolution of the latest silver cer- tificate soon to be issued. A bill of | the old type, now in circulation, was | used as a “dummy,” with sketches of portions of the new design pasted on. | | From tHis the new design was made | a sample for approval by heads of de- | | partments, etc. This sample, as final- | of their products—for stamps, cur- |ly passed upon, shows the signature of | the President, and the initials of 13| other high officials in the Government. Conventional end designs, the now- famous reverse side of the great seal (here shown for the first time in his- tory engraved, and also for the first time used in any manner), signature engravings and dies follow in order | around the case. The chrome-steel roll used to imprint the 12 images upon the plate from which the bill is eventually printed lies beside a com- pleted bill, final item in the exhibit. MUSIC BARGE T0 GO TO ANACOSTIA RIVER| Shift Tomorrow Planned for Win- ter Anchorage, Following Concerts. | Wind and weather permitting, the barge and its sound effects, utilized | at the Water Gate by the National| Symphony Orchestra during the Sum- mer outdoor concert season, will be shifted tomorrow from the vicinity of | Accident Victim CHILD BADLY INJURED ON DEFENSE HIGHWAY. the Arlington Memorial Bridge. Under plans announced yesterday, it will be taken around to the Ana- costia River and anchored for the the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. The superstructure will be covered with canvas to withstand the elements, and | then it will be refurbished next Spring | for another series of sunset concerts. | Albert Clyde-Burton, assistant su-| perintendent of the® National Capital | Parks, said the District’s tug, Vir-| ginia, and the park craft, Aileen, will | be utilized in moving the barge, which | was furnished by the Navy and brought | up from Norfolk, Va. e ROADWAY CONTRACT ON VIRGINIA SIDE LET $77,773 Low Bid on Drainage and Grading Between Arlington and Key Bridges. Harry T. Campbell Sons & Co. of | Towson, Md., has just been awarded a contract for $77,773 for drainage and grading of the new roadway be- tween the Arlington and Key Bridges on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, C. Marshall Finnan, superin- tendent of the National Capital Parks, was informed yesterday. This work, which will begin shortly, is to be done for the National Park Service, under supervision of the Bu- reau of Public Roads. Sixteen con- tractors wanted the job and the Campbell firm was the lowest bidder. The job is made possible by a Pub- lic Works Administration allocation of $280,000. Plans already have been approved by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and Finnan said yesterday that all the required land is now in Federal Government ownership. ——— DESTROYER TO CRUISE One of the Navy's latest destroyers, tke MacDonough, is going on her shakedown cruise to Europe, the Navy New York and Pennsylvania. % Department announced yesterday. “The First Army’s maneuvers afford “n August 31 the mc{)onouzhy will the greatest fleld training our Army |, ;) oyt cf the Boston Navy Yard for has had since the World War and fur- s meterdam, where she will remain for nish opportunity for practical field |y gdays, before going to Havre, tests of modern facilities for communi- | prance, for another six days. Ports- cation and transportation and weap- | mouth, England, is the next port of ons,” Dern said. call, the schedule calling for the ship “As never before the Army is utiliz- [ to remain 'here from September 25 ing modern communication methods | to October 3. She will return to New- that have reached such a high state | port, R. I, on October 21 via Bermuda. of development in recent years. The| Captained by Comdr. Charles S Winter in the stream, not far from* f i‘HOMAS DUKE, 9-year-old son of Mrs. Winifred Duke of 2233 Eighteenth street, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident on the De- fense Highway near Priest Bridge yesterday afternoon. He is in Emergency Hospital with a crushed chest and punctured lung. Expedition Soon To Study Canyon Of Salmon River The Salmon River in Idaho—called “the River of No Returns” because its falls and rapids make travel up- stream impossible—will be explored soon by a National Geographic So- ciety expedition, John Oliver La Gorce, president of the society, announced yesterday. Expedition personnel will include Philip J. Shenon and John C. Reed of the United States Geological Sur- vey, Maynard Owen Williams, staff representative of the National Geo- graphic Society; Robert Marshall, naturalist; D. Worth Clark and two local boatmen. The Salmon River winds through rugged Central Idaho and is walled by & steep canyon. Downstream travel can be accomplished only in stout, flat-bottomed boats, reipforced to withstand collision with boulders in the rapids and low falls. The torrent has sliced through sev- eral thousand feet of lava flows and deep into older formations beneath. At places the canyon is 6,000 feet deep, permitting scientific study of formations more than a mile below the original surface of the main body of granite rock. | yesults have been highly gratifying. |Alden, the MacDonough was com- The days of long and exhsusting |r - sioned at the Boston Navy Yard marches for foot soldiers seem defl- [on Mar-1 15. She is the sixth new nitely over.” destroyer to be finished recently. 3 a The expedition intends to study prehistoric Indian picture _writings on the colored canyon walls along Big Creels AR, WASHINGTO FEDERAL EMPLOYES EN ROUTE THURSDAY Eastern Delegations to Join Lo- cal for Trip to Yellow- stone Convention. Eastern delegations to the biennial convention of the National Federation of Federal Employes will start the trip to Yellowstone Najonal Park ‘Thursday. - Groups from New York, Boston, D: C, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other points will join here with that from Washington, leaving for the West on the Capital Limited of the Baltimore & Ohio at 4:45 pm. The convention will open at Old Faithful Inn on Labor day, remaining in session through ,the following Thursday or Friday. Harry B. Mitchell, president of the Civil Service Commission, will speak at the convention. On September 9, the American Fed- eration of Government Employes will AUGUST 25, open its convention at Oincinnatl ‘William Green, president of the Amer- 1935—PART' ONE. ican Federation of Labor, is expected to attend. REUNION SERVICES Special Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., August 24.— Rev, Robert Browning, rector of the | Prince of Peace and Ascension P. E. Churches of Baltimore, tomorrow will hold reunion services at historic old St. Andrew's Church, 5 miles south of here. Rev. Browning will be assisted by the rector, Rev. J. M. B. Woodrow and the Southern Maryland missioner, Rev. Clyde Brown of Washington. ARLINGTON MAN DIES; NECK BROKEN IN DIVE Injuriés Received at Bay Resort Prove Fatal to J. W. Tuberville. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, August 24.—Joseph W. Tuberville of South Washington, Va., died at the Emergency Hospital today from injuries received on Au- gust 14, when he dived into shallow water during an outing at Bay Ridge on the Chesapeake Bay. Tuberville, who was 38 years old, was employed as a salesman by Washington automobile firm. Two vertebrae in his neck were broken, Tuberville lived on South Joy street in the South Washington sec- tion of Arlington County. His wife, Mrs. Gertrude Tuberville, and several children survive, During the rebuilding of the Bank of England in London 800 human skeletons were unearthed. 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