Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1935, Page 7

TOBACCO PRICE FIXEDBY A.A.A Maryland Growers Will Re- ceive 18.1 Cents Per Pound for 1936 Crop. An increase of nearly $500,000 in annual returns to growers of the Southern Maryland tobacco crop, be- ginning with the crop year 1936, seemed probable today as the Agricul- tural Adjustment Administration set 18.1 cents a pound as the parity price for this commodity for which the ad- Justment should aim. This figure was submitted by the administration today at opening of hearings called preparatory to draw- ing up an adjustment contract for the crop years 1936 to 1939 on four types of tobacco—burley, Maryland, fire cured and dark air cured. The A. A. A. memoranda established parity, or fair exchange, values for all four types well in advance of the| yearly average market return. The computed fair exchange value for bur- ley is 17.5 cents, for fire cured, 10.7 cents, and for dark air cured, 88 cents. Average Price 16.36 Cents. Average price for the 25487515 pounds of Maryland tobacco sold in | the Baltimore market during the 12 months ended July 1 was 16.36 cents. Average price during the calendar | year, 1934, was 14.99 cents. ] E. M. Shulman, lawyer from the office of the solicitor of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, defined fair ex- change value as the price which "wnlf give agricultural commodities the | purchasing power they had during the | base period, which, for tobacco, is | the decade from 1919 to 1929. The hearing was packed with grow- | ers, chiefly from Kentucky and Ten- nessee, interested in the burley pro- gram, as well as processors from all parts of the country. No Need for Price Boost. No similar increase in the con- sumers’ price need follow the raising the market return of the growers, the A. A. A. insisted, declaring in its memorandum: “The cost at farm prices of the above kinds of leaf tobacco consti-| tutes a very small portion of the retail price of the product. Even larg2 changes in the farm price of tobacco have not been reflected in correspond- | ing changes in the retail price of the product. “If the prices for the above kinds of tobacco are maintained at or near the fair exchange value it is probabie | that the retail prices of tobacco prod- | ucts would be little, if any, different | than would be the case at farm prices | for tobacco materially below the fair| exchange value.” | The memorandum did note that | experts of American tobaccos are limited by the domestic price rise. | Crop Moves to Market. I The 1934 Southern Maryland crop at the end of June began to move | to market. The tobacco is raised in Prince Georges, Charles, Calvert, St.| Marys, Frederick, Anne Arundel and Montgomery Counties by 700 growers, who for their 1933 crop, the first produced under the A. A. A, received $35,911.03 in benefit payments. The extent of overproduction| through the 1932 crop, before the fld-! justment program was put into effect, was attested in the adjustment ad- ministration’s statement to the hear- | ing: | “Each year from 1929 to 1932 more Maryland tobacco was produced than could be used in consumption and ex- port. Stocks at the beginning of the 1933-4 marketing year were twice that of normal stocks.” Eighty-five per <ent of the Mary- land tobacco crop is domestically consumed and used in cigarette manufacture. An estimate made in early June figured the 1934 crop would bring en average of 18 cents a pound, a tenth of a cent below the parity price set by the A. A. A. The August figure was well above that, hovering around 23 cents, but the normal slump taken by the mar- ket in the late and early months of each year is expected now to bring the average well below even 18 cents. Mill Blast Marks Strike. SALEM, Mass., September 3 (#).— Five windows were shattered early to- day at the Pequot Mill, company offi- cials said, as a strike of the plant’s 2,200 workers entered its fourth week. J. Foster Smith, mill agent, reported | no one was injured. - SUMMER THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON Plans for Remodeling Old Pension Office LTI This shows a view of the proposed new home of the General Accounting Office, to be reconstructed from the old Pension Office in Judiciary Square. ‘The above sketch, by Henry de Sibour, Washington architect, ap- proved by the Fine Arts Commission, now is under consideration at the Public Works Branch, Procurement Division, Treasury Department, which has funds for the remodeling job. Ethiopia (Continued From First Page.) adopted to insure security among the neighboring colonies, giving Italy se- curity for Italians who would locate in Ethiopia. Basis for Discussion. This report, it was explained, was intended to be offered dependent upon | the consent of Ethiopia and the | League and upon assurance that Ethi- opia’s integrity and political inde- pendence would be maintained. It was said to be intended as a Wasis for| discussion. | The British held today that Musso- | lini had rejected this offer and let it be known he wanted to conquer Ethi- | opia and annex a large part of the | country, establishing political control over the rest. After Laval's arrival the French‘ delegation said its policy at Geneva vould be “fidelity to the League, to Great Britain and to Italy.” A British spokesman said it ap- peared Ttaly had not appreciated the | advantages offered, which would have | been an economic outlet and security | for that country in East Africa, and | maintenance of friendship with Great Britain, France and the League. He added if Italy still persisted in attack- ing Ethiopia, it would mean not only breaking treaties but violating the Kellogg peace pact and the League covenant, which form the basis of European security. “Such an action,” the spokesman said, “would not be merely a colonial affair. It would raise immediately, in acute form, the principle of tle validity of world treaties. Once it is admitted that a country can anaex E. C. GRAHAM, Pres. NATIONAL ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO. 1330 New York Ave. NAtL. 6800 66 its neighbors, there is nothing left of international security or post-war ideas.” Weaker Nations Anxious. Some of the weaker nations were manifestly anxious today on the eve | of the meetigg. It became certain that the three chief topics would be: 1. The report by Eden on the un- successful conference in Paris. 2. The report of the Italo-Ethiopian Conciliation Commission on the Ual-| ual frontier incident. 3. Consideration of the charge Ethi- | opia is unfit for League membership | which Italy is expected to lodge. While Ethiopia must face the possi- | bility of being thrown out of the| League, others among the weaker | states view nervously the possibility | of their being left inside the League | should the Ethiopian crisis weaken 1!.1 Not all of this nervousness arises from the fear of some day being trapped in & position similar to the | present one of Ethiopia. Several of | these smaller powers are already | caught in & dilemma of conflicting | loyalties. Little Austria, struggling to main- Wednesday, Thursday and Friday TWO OPTICAL SPECIALS | Ethiopian independence.” Save 259, to 509, 3 tain its independence, has placed ft- self on record in its official govern- ment gazette as siding definitely with Italy against “the fiction of At the same time Austria, more than any of the other smaller states, is di-| rectly interested in the maintenance |of the Stresa front, which the Ethi- opian crisis threatens to destroy. Hungary Is Doubtful, Hungary, too, is torn by conflicting tendencies, wishing both to cling to | its close friendship with Italy and yet avoid showing an anti-British position, and simultaneously to build up good relations with Germany. The Little Entente states find themselves attempting a difficult balancing feat—strict maintenance of the League authority and the in- vioability of the covenant and yet the closest possible co-operation with France, which is in turn trying des- perately to avoid a break with Italy. 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