Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1936, Page 21

. NEWSPAPERCITED BY FEDERAL TRADE Rules Those Carrying Na- tional Advertising Subject to Interstate Laws. Publications carrying national ad- vertising are subject to Federal laws based on the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution, the Federal Trade Commission has ruled. The agency made the decision in the cease and desist order it issued against the Blackwell, Okla., Journal, which Friday became the first daily news- paper ever to feel the effect of the Trace Commission act, passed in 1914 as part of President Wilson's program of business reform. ‘The Journal was told to end within 30 days these three unfair competitive practices violating section 5 of the act on the ground that the practices were injuring its competitor, the Blackwell Tribune Publishing Co., publisher of the Blackwell Morning Tribune: 1. Circulation of false, disparaging statements concerning the financial condition and responsibility of its Competitor. 2. Offering to newspaper subscribers of its competitor subscriptions to its ownynewspaper without cost. 3. Quoting or charging advertising rates which are below the cost to the publisher of the advertisements as set up and published. Established Claim. Before the commission could act, it had to establish that the Journal moved in interstate commerce. This it did on the ground that 10 per cent of its circulation is outside the State, that 1t accepts advertising of nation- ally-sold products and because much of the material used in producing the paper is bought in interstate com- merce. The publishers of the paper con- tended at the beginnings of hearings on the complaint, entered by an un- revealed party, that the commission had no jurisdiction because “the acts alleged in the complaint as unfair practices do not constitute commerce as_contemplated by said act.” In order to prove intent to injure its competitor, the commission made public a story of the financing of the Journal, which has total losses of $94.500, which was launched June 11, | 1933, by three political enemies of the Tribune. The findings state: “One of these men was a lawyer | residing at Biackwell, another an oil | operator residing at Ponca City, Okla., | and the third an oil operator residing at Blackwell. Loans Advanced. “E. M. McIntyre was, and is, the sole stockholder in respondent cor- poration. Soon after the establish- ment of its newspaper, the above named men advanced to McIntyre, in the form of a loan for use in connec- tion with the running of the news- paper, the sum of $40,000, each one of the three contributing one third of the amount. “This loan was made without in- quiry as to McIntyre's financial re- sponsibility, and no security was given by him except the pledge of his stock in the respondent corporation. Mc- Intyre paid no money or other thing for his stock, and at no time con- tributed money to the corporation or for the conduct of the newspaper. “Thereafter and up to June 30, 1935, the last two of the three men referred to above, advanced to Mc- Intyre in the form of loans addi- tional amounts in monthly install- ments of from $2,000 to $8,000, until on May 25 1935 the aggregate amount, including the first $40,000, was $117,400. No security other than the pledge of McIntyre’s stock was given for the additional $77,400. One of the two personally handed Mc- Intyre some part of this sum each month throughout period. Fight Over Gas Plant. “For a number of years prior to the establishment of respondent'’s newspaper, the editor of the Tribune, who owned 90 per cent of its stock, | and one of these two men had been on opposite sides of the question whether the city of Blackwell should sell its municipally owned gas plant. During this time there was a_bitter controversy between them, recurring at each city election. Editorials in the Tribune had bitterly attacked the other and he, through circulars, had replied in the same vein. “In the last four or five years the {ll-feeling between them had been augmented by the Tribune champion- ing the city’s rights in the matter of the pollution of its water supply by & number of oil operators, among them this creditor of respondent, and the Tribune had printed a number of editorials directed against him and his partner. “Personal relations between the ed- ftor of the Tribune and the other of the two men were even more antagon- istic. They were on opposite sides of a number of State political ques- tions, the editor had been active in an attempt to oust him from a State office, had testified against him in a State investigation of his conduct of this office, and during this time he had made the threat that he would get even with the Tribune's editor. ‘This controversy brought forth a num- ber of editorials in the Tribune at- tacking him.” SHOOTING ADMITTED Robert Mahoney Pleads Guilty to Wounding Woman. Robert Mahoney, colored, of 1520 Marion street, who shot a woman through the neck and abdomen, and then fired a bullet into his own head, pleaded guilty in Police Court yester- day to a charge of assault with intent to kil and was held for the grand Jury under $5,000 bond. Policeman J. P. Zier of No. 2 precinct told Judge Isaac R. Hitt the shooting occured on Sunday morning, August 9. He said Mahoney wounded Bertha Smith, colored, a roomer at the Marion street address, and then ran into the back yard, where he shot himself in the head. The woman is still in the hospital and Mahoney was discharged yester- day from Gallinger Hospital. LAW CLUB TO MEET Patent Attorney Group to Ob- serve First Anniversary. The first anniversary meeting of the Patent Lawyers’ Club will be held ‘Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Parrot, Twen- tleth and R streets. A business meet- ing after the dinner will be devoted to election of officers and 8 discussion of club activities for the coming year. ‘The club is organized to provide for debate and discussion of patent, trades | adjustment. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO Herr McIntyre Leads a German Band - The annual Summer excursion of the National Press Club got off to a boisterous start yes- terday when Marvi \ McIntyre, secretary to President Roosevelt, took over the job of directing a German band, one oy the entertainment features of the cruise. Later in the trip down the river, the Press Club boat dropped anchor opposite the President’s yacht Potomac and exchanged greetings, while the German band played “Hail to the Chief.” bodyguard, said that he regretted he was “unable to be aboard the show boat.” More than 500 members of the club and guests attended the outing. The President, through Gus Gennerich, his ~—Star Staff Photo. BY BLAIR BOLLES. For all the moaning about the drought, 1936 is the best domestic wheat year since the markets were | glutted in 1932, before agricultural Wheat is the primary food of the world, and the revelation by last week's report that 630,241,000 bushels of it have come or will come out of the Nation's fields this harvest means the population will be far from starvation. But even so, according to the A, A. A., we are no longer dependent upon wheat for food as we once were. Con- sumption has slumped per capita in this country from 226 pounds of wheat flour in 1879 to 176 pounds today. For food, stock-feed and seed- ing, America's wheat need is -about 600,000,000 bushels a year. Ten years ago, when world markets still existed for the United States crop, this country produced 833,544,- 000 bushels. Exports amcunted to 219,160,000 bushels. The farm value was $1,014.000.000. The farm value in 1936 might hit $650,000,000 and exports may run around 25,000,000 bushels. Between the two extremes of 1926 and 1936 lies an era of de- pression and the story of the changes a decade brings. It’s All a Gamble. ‘The vagaries of making a living in wheat growing are reflected in the unpredictable variation in production and income. In 1915, for instance, when the warring countries abroad were crying for wheat they could not produce themselves, the output reached 1,008,000,000 bushels, but the value to the farmer was only $968,800,000. Four years later output was 952,097,~ 000 bushels and yet income was $2,059,000,000. In 25 years production has fluctu- ated from 496,929,000 bushels to 1,- 008,637,000 bushels. Price has ranged from 36 cents to $2.16, average yield per acre from 11 bushels to 16 bushels, farm value from $283,750,000 to $2,- 059,000,000. Exports vary from 369,- 313,000 to 21,532 bushels, imports from 728,000 to 57,682,000 bushels. . About 800,000 farmers are totally or partially dependent upon wheat. It supports whole States in the Mid- dle Northwest. Chicago is deeply in- debted to wheat for its position as the second city of the United States. Railroads pushed over the Western plains became rich off wheat. Ship- ping lines on the Great Lakes and even on the oceans declared dividends because they carried millions of bush- els of wheat. Is World Commodity. What happens to wheat, then, is vitally important to many persons aside from those whose interest in the grain lies solely in the fact that from it bread is made. Next to gold, it is the great international commod- ity. It gives a uniformity to the eating habits of the world. Even China, the globe’s rice country, plants 46,000,000 acres in wheat, according to the Yearbook of Agriculture for 1936. The primary problem of wheat, after it is established that produc- tion will be great enough to satisfy the cravings of the collective na- tional stomach, is its effect on the world market. In recent years most of the 50 wheat-producing nations have developed a strictly nationalistic viewpoint about the grain. Raising the tariff wall was the theory. Sixteen years ago the United States hiked its wheat acreage to meet the demands of Europe, where 40,000,000 acres had been taken from produc- tion because of the war. By the end of the last decade, however, these acres were once more yellow with grain. Around Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia went the duty wall. The United States produced thousands of bush- els for which it had no use. Calam- ity was at hand, and its name was carry-over—bushels from one crop year held in storage into the next crop year and keeping down the price. No Carryover Threat. Now, at last, the excessive carry- over seems likely to be done away with. The drought is in some meas- ure responsible. The agricultural ad- justment _crop-reduction program sought to equalize output and con- sumption. From the unprecedented total of 393,407,000 bushels after the 1932 harvest, carryover has fallen to little more than 100,000,000 bushels, which is near normal. And from all over the world yester- day came news of joy for the Amer- ijcan wheat farmer, wheat trader and wheat exporter. France and Great Britain report adverse crops. Moist- ure conditions are unfavorable in the Argentine. The outlook in Australia ‘mark and copyright matters of interest to members. L A is unsatisfactory. The Chicago mar- ket is buoyant and the Liverpool mar~ 4 Best Wheat Year Since 1932 Assured U. S. Despite Drought |Carryover Threat Is Dissipated and There Will Be More Than Enough, to Feed the Nation. ket was farther above Winnipeg quo- tations than it has been in years— indicating that England is fighting to buy grain ip the world market. This all means that perhaps a wedge will be driven into the gates of the barriers against world trade in wheat. War, of course, would drive that wedge at once, but war pros- perity is usually followed by a sharp decline, because war-time production is peace-time overproduction. Colonists Brought Wheat. ‘The beginnings of wheat culture in the United States, the Yearbook of Agriculture says, are found in the seventeenth century along the Atlan- tic Coast, where the grain was sown in the Jamestown Colony in 1611 and at Plymouth in 1621. Their wheat was from England. From Swe- den wheat came to Delaware, from the Netherlands to New York and New Jersey, from Spain to Califor- nia. The drama of wheat is found in the development of the Spring wheat in- dustry, which accounts for 100,000,~ 000 bushels in the 1936 United States crop and almost all the production of Canada. “More striking than the growth of an oak from acorn is the fact that the vast hard red Spring wheat in- dustry of the United States, with all the milling, baking, transportation and trading dependent on it, devel- oped from a few seeds saved from a single wheat plant,” runs the story in the Yearbook. “The variety that founded the hard Spring whegt industry came origin- ally from Galicia, in Poland. F#m Galicia it went to Germany. From Germany it went to Scotland. From Scotland it went to Canada. From Canada it came to the United States. It was David Fife of Otonabee, On- tario, who saved a single plant of Spring wheat out of a lot of Winter wheat obtained from a friend at Glasgow. From this single plant came the variety known as ‘Red Fife, which in turn was a parent of the world-famous Marquis.” MRS. CHARLES BURNHAM, DISTRICT NATIVE, DIES Wife of North Carolina Official to Be Buried Here Tomorrow. Mrs. Charles W. Burnham, wife of the North Carolina superintendent of fisheries, formerly of Washington, died Friday at her home in Fayette- ville, N. C, it was learned here last night. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the chapel of Glen- wood Cemetery here, where she will be interred. Rev. Lawton Riley of the Pinkney Memorial Methodist Church, Hyattsville, Md., will officiate. Born in Washington, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aqulla Fletcher Moul- den, Mrs. Burnham lived here until a year ago, when she moved to Fayette- ville. She is survived by her husband and three brothers, Dr. William R. Moul- den of Washington, J. Fletcher Moulden of Riverdale, Md., and Elmer Lyman Moulden of Palo Alto, Calif. PIANIST’S WIFE SUES Mrs. Eisenberger Asks $50,000 Balm of Cleveland Woman. CLEVELAND, September 12 (#).— Mrs. Margarete Eisenberger, wife of Severin Eisenberger, concert pianist, filed suit for $50,000 today against Miss Edith Bloomfield, charging alien- ation of her husband’s affections. Her petition in Common Pleas Court asserted that Miss Bloomfleld induced Eisenberger to institute divorce pro- ceedings now pending in Reno, Nev. The Eisenbergers Were married June 18, 1921, in Vienna, Austria, and have a daughter, Agnes, 13, the peti- OFFERS HYGIENE COURSE A series of classes in home hygiene and care of the sick, organized by the District Chapter of the Red Cross, will open at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the chap- ter house, 1730 E street. Subsequent morning classes on Mondays and Wednesdays,-and after- noon classes on Tuesday and Thurs- day, will be held in the chapter house. Evening classes, on Wednesdays and Pridays, will be conducted at the Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets. A Garden Party Tuesday. Washington Alumni of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity will hold their weekly luncheon at 12:30 tomorrow in Burt’s Tavern, 1412 New York avenue, NEEDS PARLEY OPENS THURSDAY Roosevelt Will Address Wel- fare Leaders and Swope Will Respond. President Roosevelt will address a gathering of private welfare leaders at 10 am, Thursday from the south portico of the White House, opening the 1936 Mobilization for Human Needs Conference. Gerard Swope, chairman of the mobilization, will make a response. Leaders of both major political par- ties will attend the conference, to be held at the Mayflower Hotel Thursday and Friday, emphasizing the non- partisan aspect of this approach to social improvement, despite relief con- troversies in an election year. Swope will preside at a conference Thursday night on “Tomorrow’s Citizens,” at which special problems concerning young people will be con- sidered. Speakers are to be Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, one of Gov. Lan~ don’s principal campaign advisers, and Miss Dorothy Thompson, wife of Sin- clair Lewis and a well.known writer. In the afternoon of the same Jay Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, and Stillman F. Westbrook of Hartford, Conn., president of Com- munity Chest and Councils, Inc., will discuss the future of the Community Chest movement and its relation to varipus welfare services. Chest cam- paigns will be held this Fall in 330 cities. After the President’s address, mem- bers of the Women’s National Com- mittee of the 1936 mobilization will meet with Mrs. Roosevelt, their hon- orary chairman, in the east room of the White House. Mrs. Harper Sibley of Rochester, N. Y., chairman of the committee, will have charge of the program. Mrs. Roberta I. Campbell Lawson, Miss Katherine F. Lenroot, D. C., SEPTEMBER 13, 1936—PART O King Works on Holiday King Peter of Yugoslavia runs a wheelbarrow of gravel as he works with the boys at a working lads’ camp near Belgrade, sponsored by the Yugoslav Boy Scouts. spending his vacation at the camp at which many of the boys The young King is are sons of laborers. The gravel is for use in constructing a club house which the boys are making entirely by themselves. Miss Jane Hoey, Secretary of Labor Perkins and Miss Charl O. Williams are Washington members of this group. At the same time the National Citizens’ Committee of 101 will meet at the Mayflower, adjourning for a luncheon there to be presided over by Mrs. Roosevelt and addressed by Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the United States, and Mrs. Sibley. ‘The second day of the conference will be devoted largely to consideration of standards for corporation contribu- tions to community welfare. In the morning the Women’s Committee will hold a round table discussion of women’s opportunities as interpreters of social needs. —Wide World Photo. MOVIE BAN LIFTED “The Green Pastures” to Shown in Trinidad. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Sep- tember 12 (#).—A special Board of Ap- | peal, named by the governor, today !lifted Trinidad's ban on the Ameri- can film, “The Green Pastures.” Negroes, contending the original decisicn of island censors was prompt- ed by racial prejudice, had raised an outcry against the ban. The Appeal Board was composed of a Negro minister, a Catholic priest | and a labor leader. LIQUOR IMPORTS SHOW BIG GAIN Duty Cut by Canadian Trade Treaty Double Shipments Over 1935 Period. By i Associated Press. With duties lowered by the Canae dian-American trade treaty, United States imports of foreign liquor ine creased sharply during the first seven months of this year. In a recnet Customs Bureau report imports of distilled liquor for the pee riod were set at 6,608,377 proof gale lons, compared with 3,190,751 gallons in the corresponding period last year, For July, liquor imports were 1,042,- 545 gallons, compared with 523,349 gallons the same month a year ago. Still wine imports were 1286953 liquid gallons for the first seven months of this year, compared with 1,031481 in the corresponding 1935 period. Sparkling wine imports were 103,360 liquid gallons compared with 73,587 in the first seven months of 1935. Still wine imports dropped off for July, being listed at 121,859 liquid gallons, while 150,236 gallons were imported in July a year ago. Sparke ling wine imports, however, increased to 15,095 liquid gallons from 6,333, — Fraternity Luncheon Tomorrow. 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