Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1936, Page 2

" A2 wx» RITES HELD HERE FORMRS. POMERDY Bishop Freeman Pays Trib- ute to Memory of Former Capital Resident. Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. Tribute was paid by Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Wash- BUNDLING PARTY. ington. to the memory of Mrs. Mi- W!’ru apologies to Betsy | # ‘randa Noyes Pomeroy, formerly of | Caswell, who is employed ‘this city, at funeral services for her by The b:‘:' ":1 u:;u]n today at the home of her brother, persons about making their ties successful, we- want to tell *Fheodore W. Noyes, editor of The Star, | Par 3 1730 New Hampshire avenue. Inter- | WAshington hostesses. now poised on ment was in the family vault at Rock | the brink of the social season. about : | bundling parties. Creek CAmetery | Apparently bundling parties are en- The funeral party arrived last night | joying & vogue in Alabama, but Wash- from Greenwich, Conn.. where MIS. [inoyon “as far as we know, has never | e e i S P e g | . - “Rev. Prederick G. Budlong, BIshop of | y el aeoelonth oo or oey anf ask the Episcopal Diocese of Conneeticut, ‘ \tiainito iririgia soktums Tia BURMIES officiated Et services at her late home 1 not necessarily a fancy dress one, In Greenwich. | though they are popular—just any- Mrs. Pomeroy, who was the daugh- | thing picked up around the house. ter of Crosby S. Noyes, for nearly nalf l When the guest have assembled all a century editor of The Evening Star, | bundles. still wrapped, are placed in and Elizabeth Williarhs Noyes, had | the middle of the floor and every one spent much of her early life in Wash- is asked to select one, retire to the ington. | dressing rooms and reappear in what- Mrs. Pomeroy was stricken with an | €ver is found in the bundle. attack of appendicitis while nmnding} There have been cases, our in- & Republican rally in Bridgeport, formant says, of guests refusing to v | vhat they get, and leaving. Conn.. September 26 and was operated | Wear wha on the following day in Greenwich | They can not be permitted to remain FOREIGN GAPTAL INFLOW DECREASES Nearly Half Billion Comes to U. S. in Six-Month Period. By the Assoclated Press. The Commerce Department re- ports that a half billion dellars of foreign capital flowed into the United States during the first half of this year but estimated that this was | & decrease under 1933's six-month period. “Political and financial uncertain- ties” abroad were described as re- sponsible for the flight of funds from European shores. A smaller move- ment of short-term funds caused the | decrease, said Government economists, | who added that on the other hand long-term transactions—such as in- vestments in American enterprises— increased. The inflow of foreign capital was estimated at $496,000,000 or about | $124,000.000 less than during the first six months Jast year. Reviving international trade, a | world-wide improvement in domestic | business and a sharp pick-up in tour- | ist spending also were reported in the | department’s survey of international i payments. | Imports of Gold. ‘Hospital. Prominent in civic affairs and poli- tics, Mrs. Pomeroy was a vice presi- cent of the Woman's National Re- publican Club of New York and served on that organization's executive boar She also was a member of the Fair- field County Woman's Republican As- sociation and the Greenwich R!pub-‘ lican Town Committee. Her other activities included mem- |in their own clothes or the spirit of | Imports of gold totaled $537,000.000, the party is ruined. The host, it seems, |Or about two-thirds of the inflow | must be firm about asking them to during the same months last year. | leave. | American exports rose $130,000,000 | Conversation takes care of itself | above the comparable period for 1935, | at bundling parties, our inIm‘mnnt‘Commerce Department experts esti- says, and the problem ofs what to| Mated. Their figures showed that serve we leave to each bundling party Purchases from other nations shot up giver. more rapidly, leaving a $9,000,000 This column absolutely refuses to exCéss of imports over exports. be responsible for anything that hap-| Total merchandise exports were bership on the Connecticut Merritt Highway Commission and on the di- | “rectorates of the Federated Garden | !Clubs of Connecticut, the Greenwich | Hospital, the Woman's Club of Green- ;i—ich and the Greenwich Country I Elub. Surviving are two brothers, Theodore ~W. Noyes and.Frank B. Noyes, presi- “tent of The Evening Star Co. and president of the Associated Press: a ..gon, Crosby Noyes Boyd of this city, and a daughter, Mrs. James A Vaughan of Greenwich, and three grandchildren. | Her first husband, George W. Boyd of Philadelphia, passenger traffic| manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad, died in 1917. Her second husband, Theodore L. Pomeroy, former presi- | dent of the Indiana Refining Co. of | Area for ladies only. New York, died in 1929. |ing there are. quite naturally, quiet sort unaccustomed to men in SRR e e the house, except occasionally on the Rl l first floor. l10ues | When a booming baritone was heard | rendering “'Anchors Aweigh” from the | second-floor bath room early the other morning, accompanied by definitely virile splashings, the ladies listened with astonishment. pens at a bundling party. R ENTERPRISE. “No frog legs, thank you, I think I'll take the vegetable plate,” is what most any Washington Board of Trade employe would say these days if @ waiter recommended that dish. A thumb-stained postcard from Louisiana has been going the rounds of the board ofice. It re- quests information about diseases of frogs, but a postscript asks if the board will recommend a market for some “fiine, healthy frog legs.” « ¥ ox x LADIES ONLY. an exceedingly 'HERE'S genteel The ladies liv- (Continued From First Page.) were ignored against Logan O. Wil- ton and John S. Wilton, 24-year-old *twin brothers, who were arrested Au- | gust 25 allegedlv with guns and spe- cial officer badges in their posses- &lon. | They were taken into custody by Detective Roy E. Blick of the vice| ¢ equad, who had received complaints &,;{ concerning the activities of two men 3 who appeared to be policemen. The | b guns said to have been found in their possession were identified as belongng to Detective Sergt. A. D. Mansfield and Precinct Detective Elmer Dal- ’ strom. Charges against the two officers as & result of the incident now are pend- ‘ing before the Police Trial Board. 'Mansfield and Dalstrom are alleged to have lent the brothers the guns ‘while the Wiltons were acting as spe- “glal officers during the Shrine parade. Maurice R. Pulaski, former manhager “®f the Albee Building, was indicted #6n embezzlement charges. He is al- iJeged to hate taken money paid as rent pand converted it to his own use. Short- «Ages aggregating $325 were alleged in Simultaneously the landlady flew upstairs. Police seemed indicated. She had discovered a Navy uniform ,on the hall table and & midshipman's | cap perched on the bannister. Just then the bath room door opened and a handsome young man | emerged. clad in Chinese pajamas. | “Good morning,” he said. “ho] I'm not intruding. I came in too late | last night to explain that mother is away and sent me the key to her room.” The landiady says he's a very nice are enjoying his stay. ® ox % ¥ CORFESPONDENCE. young man and that all the ladies #wo true bills. | M OONLIGHT nights in the forest » Narcotic Prgscript‘nm. and sweethearts long distances +* Alleged to have signed 13 prescrip- | away combine to elicit eloquent letters #ions for narcotics, Stanley Grady, 47, | from C. C. C. boys, our reforestration #was charged with forgery. He was | operator reports. imrrested April 16, when a druggist| But since recent events at a camp g;nefl to recognize the name signed to near Washington “love and kisses” e order. | have become fighting words around | e ®n two charges of performing crim- dnal operations. In one case the girl vas but 17'vears old, and in the other, 38 Both recovered. Rowley's wife, Mrs. Ethel Rowley, 26, was charged §Wwith him in one of the indictments. Henry Albert Whittle, colored, 18, and Henry Clemons, colored, 17, both inmates of the National £chool for Boys, were charged by the px'rnnd jury with attempting to incite @ riot at that institution. I The grand jury's report today was (At last. It will retire tomorrow, to be Ssucceeded by another panel, which will {terve for three months. There were +38 true bills in today’s report. Other Indictments. Others indicted were: Frank M. Rowley, 31, was indicledl Training | the place. The officer in charge ac- cumulated a collection of letters, re- turned because of incorrect addfesses, and without the senders' names. He decided to open the missives at Toll call and read portions so that the writers might identify and claim them. The first letter ended “love and kisses” and was presented to an abashed youth amid boos and cat- calis. Although several other notes were read, the officer, entering into the spirit of his audience and omitting no terms of endearment, not another claimant stepped forward. 1 ® ok Kk % ! DEARIE. i IN A flutter of excitement a recent | © Washington bride planned her first | dinner party the other day. She Hobart Dodson, Carl C. Smith, Rob- | viewed her inexperienced maid with ert L. Davis, Thornton L. Giles and alarm and spent hours coaching her John F. Childs, joy riding; Amelia in the art of serving. Furbush, Ethel F. Lucas, Joseph M. X . Brockwell, Rubin W. Carpenter, Joan N — gady) / “» Webb, Richard Pope, Emmett D. e J | | \\\ Dowden and Hattle I. Pressley, h grand larceny: John Monroe, Earl Vermillion, Willam A. Gallatin, On the eve of the party the bride, who is & thorough sort of person, Thomas E. Drudy and Arthur Rich- ardson, housebreaking and larceny; even seated herself at the table and went through a sort of dress re- Edward Frank, receiving stolen prop- erty; Madeline Parsons, Eunice Rob- inson and Clifton Simpson, robbery; John Sims and Fred Allen, robbery and @ssault with intent to kill; Purcell g:uu’;z. .u-AuuGznn a dm::rous wea- | hearsal. n. Myron A. wans, embezzlement; Samuel R. McGlone, Claude C. Wli:er‘ ORI S | MyrVINInE jeeut and Frank Black, larceny after trust end embezzlement; Robert A. Murray, Joseph H. Linkins, Harry C. Adams The and Harry V. Davis, gaming; Joe Jones, Willie Erby and John Newton, cashing another’s Government check: William Calvin Wharton, forging a Government check; Perry Chairs, pos- sessing molds for coins, and Mimi Cassetta and James N. Ostrander, vio- lation of the white slgve traffic act. John H. McKim, forgery and utter- ing, and Jack M. Gersten and Emil F. Rochedleu, conducting a lottery. The following other charges were ignored: Robert L. Garnett and William Lee, essault’ with a dangerous weapon; Bernard 8. Reichlin, forgery and ut- tering; Allan Bray and Joseph Allen, | Joy riding; Elizabeth H. Willis, grand | larceny, and Julian Shang, Robert Kirk and Woodrow Eason, abduction. Title Undisputed. HERSCHER, Ill. (7). —Donald Meyer, 8 blacksmith, won the title of “cham- plon liar of Ilinois” with this tall one: ' 'While hunting he spotted seven wild turkeys on a limb. ot split the Tmb. The . turkeys’ dropped through and they were cought slive. delivered her World War, Chind would busy fighting China talked. Atfes Lonswerth. 85 it reads the placed at $1,154,000,000, and imports | at $1.163,000,000. Americans spent about 10 per cent ! more on foreign travel than they did during the first half of 1935. Al-/ though the survey did not cover the peak tourist months, it showed sight- seeing expenditures of $160,000,000. | During the same period, foreign tourists spent $43,000,000 in the United States, Better Business Comditions. | Improved business conditions in other countries resulted in the pay- ment of $280,000,000 in interest and dividends on American investments abroad, the department reported. These receipts were partially offset by payments to foreign creditors of boarding house in the northwest $90,000,000, virtually all on long-term | investments. Although foreigners the |hold more than $1,000.000,000 worth of short-term funds in this country, | they consist almost entirely of de- mand deposits which bear no interest, | it was explained. | Department economists estimated that immigrants sent about $45,000.- 000 back to relatives or friends in | their parent countries. In addition, | Americans sent abroad $14.000,000 in | charitable, religious and educational | contributions. The increase in American exports was fairly evenly distributed among | the country's chief foreign markets. | Purchases by the United Kingdom | rose 17 per cent above the first six | months of last year. while exports to | Canada increased 15 per cent. Larger sales also were reported to Germany, | Prance, Australia and South Africa. FUGITIVE OF NAZIS IS OFFERED HAVEN { ! | Mexico Consents to Receive Youth 1 Facing Deportation H by U. S. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 5.—Otto | Richter, 21, who says he fled from Germany to escape Nazi persecution, today planned to seek asylum in | Mexico. The American Committee for For- eign Born, which appealed unsuccess- fully for reversal of the Labor De- partment’s ruling that Richter should | be returned to Germany, announced Mexican authorities had consented to Teceive him as a “political exile.” Richter, who plans to leave the United States with his American-born wife within three weeks, left Germany in November, 1933, and jumped ship | at Seattle. He was arrested in San Franciseo during the general strike of 1934 and held for deportation. Last June he marched down Broad- way with & sign on his back saying, “8hoot Me.” suffer ¢hat fate if sent back to Germany. well until the maid was asked to serve more biscuits. ““There ain’t no more, dearie,” came the answer. ok % PICK-UP. A colored chaufleur in & shining town car, apparently waiting for his boss and needing companion- ship, drew up beside two colored girls on the curdb at Comnecticut avenue and Calvert street the other evening. They smiled. He said to the prettiest ones “What's your name?” “My name’s Lucy Jones. yours?” “Rudolph W. Randolph, fr." The chaufleur gave gome such mame with the best bow he could manage while sitting behind a wheel. “And, Mr. Randolph,” said Lucy Jones, “allow me to present one of my oldest friends, Miss Agnes Elizabeth Whité!” What's National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. |, INCINNATI, October 5.—How great has been the change in the international attitude towards conquest since the days of President Wilson's altruistic'state papers. When Japan 22 demands on China during the she seemed naively to trust that say nothing about it to anybody, and that the Western nations would be too among themselves to take notice. And Japan was overwhelmed by & perfect avalanche of moralistic tfeatises, warn- ings and Sunday school maxims. Now Japan. having accustomed the world to the landing of Japanese armies in China, pre- sents demands that may mean in effect estab- lishment of a Japanese protectorate over China. A world that has witnessed the rise and fall FRENCH FASEITS VOW TOGARRY ON Rightist Leaders to Marshal Followers for Counter- Demonstrations. By the Associated Press. PARIS. October 5.—The National- ist eohorts of Col. Prancois de la Rocque, ignoring threats of suppres- sion for their Sabbath battle with Paris Communists, proclaimed today they would “carry on.” While Leftists demanded the gov- ernment put a halt to the campaign of the Nationalist French Social | party, the Rightest leaders declared they would marshal their followers for counter demonstrations against all major meetings of the Popular Front. Strong forces of guardsmen and police, which restored peace to Paris streets after Sunday's trouble, with- drew to barracks but remained alert against the possibility of further oute breaks. “Organized combat” by Fascists at- tempting to break up a Communist meeting, informed sources declared, had shown the new Social party to be a military league rather than a political organization. Street rioting—characterized as “the worst in many years'—transformed the area near the Parc des Princes into a shambles yesterday and brought 112,000 policemen and mobile guards | into action as the political battlers surged in attacks and counter- | attacks. Fifteen hundred persons were jailed | temporarily, although all but a few were released later after the fighting ihnd been halted by energetic and | strong-arm guards. { The series of running fights—in | which heads were cracked, property | damaged and Sunday peace shattered | completely — started when Commu- | nists took over the park for a rally. Fascists previously had declared | they would hold a session in the same i | location, but the Communists got up | early and got there first. | Helmeted policemen guarded the 1 100,000 Leftist supporters as Rightists | allied with Col. Prancois de Ila | Rocque’s party began sallies against small groups. Most of the fighting occurred in the outskirts of the crowd, | | with opposing forces attacking and | retreating in turn. | I Cafes and stores within several blocks of the park suffered heavy | | damage as combatants wrecked com- | mercial property in their vicious | battles. | “Publie Enemy No. 1." ‘The Communist mass meeting pro- ceeded during the uproar in the vi- | einity. Speakers praised the Popular | Pront government of Premier Leon Blum and condemned fascism as public enemy No. 1. They demanded the arrest of De la ' | Rocque on a charge of starting a | “civil war” and other Leftist groups | ridiculed the retreat of his supporters | before squads of mobile guardsmen. | “The police and the mobile guard | | have demonstrated the republic has | nothing to fear from our apprentice | Fascists,” the Leftists asserted. The Fascist chieftain, however, ex- pressed “admiration” of the action ' of his followers. | Social party members, he said, achieved their object to “disperse red | flag parades, prevent the singing of | the Internationale in public places and | halt invasion of Paris by Soviet col- umns.” i “It is now proven they (Com- | munists) are even protected by over- | whelming forces of public order—with | | one policeman or guard for each Com- munist,” he declared. “Revolutionaries | are powerless before the Prench So- cial party.” An informed source declared crim- inal prosecution of De la Rocque’s or- ganization would be begun soon on | the grounds the new party was merely | | & camoufiage for activities of the dis- | solved Nationalist League, the Croix | de Feu. : THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1936. Planes Crash in Air—Three Killed A pilot and two passengers were killed late yesterday when two biplanes attempting to land at the airport at Springfleld, N, Y., crashed together 150 feet over a vacant lot. wreckage of the planes, one of which was piloted by Fred Davi w Above is the ho died later. —A. P. Photos. LAW VIDLATIONS LAD TOPACKER Meat Dealers Called to Ap- pear at Hearing in New York. BY the Associated Prass. Agriculture Department officials said today that retail and wholesale mest dealers in New York City would appear as Government witnesses in suppors | of charges that the Swift and Armour packing companies had violated the packers and stockyards act. | The two major packers were notified over the week end of the charges and a hearing in New York City Novembe: 2, but the complaint was not made | public until today. | It alleged that both packers in their | “own name, and through various sub- | sidiaries operating under various names,” had violated the Federal act in New York and at other places between | January 1, 1934, and September 1 this year. The notice charged the packers had used “certain unfair. unjustly discrim- |inatory and deceptive practices and By the Associated Press. 'Five Lea | | Special Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va., October 5—Five per- sons saved their lives by leaping from an automobile a few moments before it rolled off Skyline Drive and fell 250 feet into a ravine below near Panorama yesterday afternoon. The presence of mind of M. Rum- | shin, Alexandria grocer, who ordered | his wife, two children and a friend from his car when it started alipping | on the new section of the drive, and then leaped himself, averted the near catastrophe. Vernon avenue, Alexandria. was -in Rumshin, who lives at 914 Moum. p to Safety as Car | | Plunges Off Skyline Drive the act of making a turn when he felt | the car slipping. As it held a minute, he yelled to the others to D. | His wife, their two daughters, Annette, 12, and Adella, 14, and Miss Dora Newman ' of Washington, who was riding with them, scrambled from the-machine. | The grocer then made an attempt to complete the turn. The car slipped again and he leaped The car was wrecked Its drop lodged it in a crevice at the bottom | of the ravine. There are no guard walls on this new section of the drive that was opened a week ago. PLANE COLLISION LEADS TO INQUIRY Three-Way Probe Starts as Four Are Killed in Mid- air Crash. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 5.—Investie gators began a three-way inquiry toe day into an airplane collision that killed four persons and sent the two- wing-locked ships plummeting into a meadow 50 feet from a traffic-clogged Long Island highway. Representatives of the Federal Gov- ernment. the Queens district attor- ney’s office and the police had put much of their hope of learning the story of the midair crash on Pred Davis, Springfield, N. Y., the lone sur- vivor, but his injuries resulted in Davis' death today. The other dead were William Prank, 20, Jathaica South, passenger in the ship Davis was piloting to a landing; Max Stearn, 33, Rockaway Beach, pilot of the second plane, and David Cook, Jamalica, a passenger in Stearn's oraft. Harry Gordon, manager of the Ja- maica sea airport. over which the planes were flying. said the shius crashed almost directly above his head. He saw the threat of disaster, he said, as Stearn’s machine banked into a sharp turn that threw it into the path of Davis' ship, coasting in for a landing. “Both planes were flying inta the south, as a south wind was blowing.” he said, “and Davis had cut his en- gine and szlowed his plane down to almost 40 miles an hour as he fleated in. Then I saw the Rearwin (Stearn’s plane), which was flying low and about a hundred miles an hour, turn directly toward the path of the other machine.” Both ships were biplanes. Lira (Continued Prom Pirst Page) | brought the lirs back to the “rats of 90" which he established in hi spesch December 21, 1927, at Pesaro before the Italian monetary unit was stabilized. | Repercussions Set Forth. “Premier Mussolini set forth eventual repercussions of the devalua- tion provision,” the communique con- the Mrs. Esther Rumshin: | COTION EXPORTS CONSUMER CO-0PS OROPLAIDTOU.S. HT BY TRADEINT Government Interference in‘c, of C. Says Government' tinued in describing discussions at the cabinet session. “With regard to foreign trs tions, it (devaluation) -clarifies situation especially in regard to ex- ports and tourist business which will | be benefited. “Only an increase in prices in- ternally could compromise these ad- vantages. but Il Duce proposed and the cabinet approved blocking some prices by rigorous control and move- ment of others in relation to world prices.” | Quotas Also Changed. ‘The cabinet also authorized changes in import quotas and immediate elim- ination of lire exports “The cabinet has reconfirmed In the most categorical manner that the pol- |ley tending to reach maximum eco- nomic autonomy will be continued be- cause that is essential to the military ends and defense of the nation.” The gold value of the lira was placed at 4.677 grams of gold for each 100 lira. ‘The cabinet, however, declared fluc- tuations within a 10 per cent limit would be permitted, similarly to the policy adopted in French and Swiss franc devaluations. Gold Reserves to Be Revajued. Gold reserves of the Bank of Italy the cabinet decided. will be revalued Market Is Cited in In- stitute Report. Should Not Promote Movement. They pointed out the government | gevices in the sale and handling of | By the Associated Press. | already has begun an investigation of the party after Leftists declared | De la Rocque evaded the dissolution order against the league by trans- forming his group into a political or- ganization. | Bitterness of the street fighting was | echoed in Paris newspapers. Leftist journals praised the government's | handling of the situation while Right- | ist papers attacked the administra- | tion for “placing an army of 20,000 ai the service of the Communist cause.” Boulevard Clash Violent. | One of the most violent clashes oc- | | where 200 Rightists broke through a | police cordon and caused a general | melee until reinforcements arrived. | Pifty of the Rightists barricaded | |themselves in a cafe and hurled | bottles, dishware, glasses and chairs | At the onrushing police, who finally dislodged them. “Pascist will not happen here. It shall not pass,” Communist speakers shouted at the park rally. Among the huge red flags embossed with the Communist hammer and sickle were some bearing slogans, “make the rich pay” and “down with the 200 families.” The Communists assured th#ir leaders they would remain loyal to Premier Blum’'s People's Pront gov- ernment. MRS. MARY E. WALKER DIES AT ALEXANDRIA | | Oldest Member of Methodist Church Saw First Fatality of Civil War. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, October 5.— Funeral services for Mrs, Mary Walker, 87, & witness of the Ma shall House incident, according to local historians, the first fatalities of the War Between the States, were to be held herd this altérnoon. Mrs. Walker, who saw Col. Ellsworth shot by James W. Jackson, proprietor 8he leaves three daughters, Mrs. PFrank R. Mason, Mrs. Cora Lee Lucas and Mrs. Viola M. Hepburn; nine | meats and meat food products in com- | merce.” ROME, October 5.—Government | Contending that the Government | interference in the American cotton | should give no “preferential treat- The Government contended botn | market seriously disturbs exports from ' ment” to consumers’ co-operatives, a | | companies had made “reciprocal ar- | rangements and promises with C. H., | Sprague & Son, Inc., identified as an operating company and agency for freight and passenger steamships. The agency, the Government said. was requited to purchase meat and medt products “only from” the pack- ing companies. In exchange, the packers were said to have agreed to give “shipments of freight.” The Swif: company also was said by the Govern- ment to have made a similar agre He contended he would | curred on the Boulevard Exelmans, ment with the Intermational Mercan- tile Marine Co., operator of a larg: number of ships. MRS. JOSEPH MILLS DIES AT AGE OF 62 Wife of Builder Had Been Active Many Years in Petworth Baptist Church. Mrs. Mary Lillian Mills, 62, for many years active in church work here, died Saturday night after an iliness of two weeks in Garfield Hospital. Mrs. Mills, whose home was at 30 Madison street northeast, was the wife of Joseph F. Mills, & builder. For the last 25 years she had been an active member of the Petworth Baptist Church, being a member of the Aid | Society and a past president of the Missionary Society. At one time she | was a member of the Board of Man- agers of the Stoddard Home for the Aged. A native of Gold Vein, Va., she had been a Washington resident 35 years. Besides her husband she is survived by three sons, Prederick B., Chester E. and William E. Mills, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Petworth Baptist Church. Rev. Dr. H. J. Smith, pastor, will officiate. Additional services and burial will be held tomorrow afternoon at Mount Holly, Va. At this service Rev. Dr. C. W. Brooks, who married Mr. and Mrs. Mills 41 years ago, will officiate, as- sisted by Dr. Smith. HORSE BACK IN AUSTRIA Many Business Firms Reinstate the United States, a world study showed today. The report of the study was pre- ‘umed at the opening of the general assembly of the International Insti- tute of Agriculture. | The study was the first of the Insti- | tute’s new work in agricultural plan- ning begun two vears ago by the United States delegate, Henry C. Tay- lor of Des Moines, Iowa. Export Decline Shown. The report, of more than 400 pages, | drew a vivid picture of the decline of American cotton exports, tracing the States sent from its ports 72 per cent |of the world's total exports. Since then, the report declared. the American shipments have declined to a low point of 56.7 per cent in 1928. market back to 1880, when the United | | committee of the Chamber of Com- ,merce of the United States reported yesterday that about 1,800 such or- ganizations now were active in this country. The committee asserted that the consumers’ societies had “not yet con- clusively demonstrated their ability to reduce costs of distribution and manu- facture,” and argued that it would be “improper” for Government agencies | to offer them financing, tax exemp- | tion or other aid. Government representatives recently began a study of co-operatives in England and other European coun- | tries. = Small Membership. The Chamber of Commerce report said that less than 1 per cent of this country’s population belong to co- | operatives, although such societiss em- | *“The price for a product such 8s|prgaee 15 per cent of the population | which is an export produce on the basis of the new lira with the surplus to be placed at the disposition | of the treasury. Special powers were voted to sus- pend restrictions, wherever necessary, | on movements of capital between do- mestic exchanges and foreign money markets. ‘The cabinet decreed especially that for two years, rents of apartment houses, offices and other buildings may not be increased nor may increases be made in rates for electricity, gas and other public services. | The government also was given the right to change customs and tariffs in conformity with the new monetry alignment. NEW RECOVERY., ' STEP IN | Italian Devaluation Follows Week | of Readjustment. NEW YORK, October § (. — Financial circles, welcoming the lira into the family of readjusted monies, said today devaluation of the Italian | currency was another step in Europe's progress toward monetary stability and world trade recovery. Italy's decision to devaluate the lira came in the wake of a week of | cotton, par exceilence for the United States, cannot be affected in the domestic market without at the same time provoking & strong reaction in the world cotton market,” the report asserted. “The value of cotton in the United States depends almost equally on the | home market and the world market— that is, exports abroad and con- sumption by the domestic textile in- | dustry practically balance each other. Egypt Profits. “If one is a factor, the internal | cotton trade is then excessively in- fluenced, as it was by the Federal Farm Board, without & similar in- fluence being brought to bear on the foreign market. | “Then that implies, in fact, en- | couragement of the home market at | the expense of cotton exports, with the result—to put farmer has at the same time a few dollars to put in one pocket which he has taken out of the other.” Egypt has profited principally from the Ameriean export decline, the re- port declared. it mildly—the | of the British Isles. The most rapid growth of the con- | sumer’s movement in America, the committee indicated, had been in rural areas and small towns. Only 34 per cent of the societies operate re- tail stores, while 56 per cent are pri- marily engaged in selling gasoline and motor oil. “The concern of merchants regard- ing consumers’ co-operatives is that these organizations are being aided and promoted through governmental channels,” the report said. “Threaten Merchants.” “Although the immediate competi- tion from consumer's co-operatives is not acute, the results which would follow from active promotion of the movement by public bodies threaten the existence of thousands of mer- chants throughout the land. “So long as such competition re- mains on & fair and equal basis and contains no element of Government | subsidy, competent American mer- chants can be counted upon to pit their experience and skill against all rivals.” Anywhere THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS Night Final Delivered by Carrier in the City Full Speorts Base Ball Scores, Race Results, Complete Market News of the Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. What- ever it is, you'll ind it In The Night Final Sports Edition. and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70¢c a month. Call smuonll 5000 and service | currency revision which started when France cut the gold content of her money. Other countries which devaluated their monetary units were Switzerland and Holland, both of which were on | gold. | The Italian lira, however, rode up to the devaluation post under the reins of strict government management. Gold reserves up to the end of October, | 1935, when the Bank of Italy discon- tinued its condition reports, totaled | $350,000,000. | Government management involved | rigid control of imports and exports of gold, goods and currency. Devaluation of the lira was regarded in some banking circles as a long delayed effort to readjust Italian money into line with other world | currencies. | MOVE EXPECTED HERE. | Experts Regard Step as Natural Re- sult of Three-Party Pact. | By the Associated Press. | Treasury officials today viewed the | 41 per cent devaluation of the Italian ‘un as an expected development in | the realignment of the currencies of } major nations. | Although they declined to make | any official comment pending the re- | turn late today of Secretary of Treas- | ury Morgenthau, fiscal experts pri- | vately looked upon the devaluation as a natural result of the recent mone- | tary agreement between Great Britain, Prance and the United States. They characterized the Italian action as part of a general trend to- wards an approximation of the post- war ratios of the major world cur- rencies. v Aside from a poesible stimulation 1Am!un tourist travel n Italy, devaluation was expected to uv’ few immediate repercussions here.