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GREEN MAY TALK OVER CONCILIATION WITH C. 1. 0. AIDES Move Hinted After Hat Group Urges Representa- tion at Convention. TWO UNION OFFICIALS ARE UNDER SUSPENSION A. F. of L. Head Denies Meeting Is Scheduled, but Admits He Might See Pair. BY JOHN C. HENRY. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, left for New York today, where, it is re- ported, he will confer further with two key individuals of the Committee for Industrial Organization. ‘This plan bears out speculation that the present strategy of Green and the | Executive Council of the Federation | is to attempt to persuade some of the | C. I O. unions to withdraw individ- | ually from that organization. Such action would weaken the prestige of John L. Lewis, C. I. O. chairman, and of the group itself. Lending weight to this speculation is Green's question at yesterday's press conference when he asked re- porters if they thought all C. I. O. unions were still in as complete accord with their leadership as previously. Representation Asked. As a basis for the week end con- ference there was yestercay's action by the United Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers' Union in the form of a resolution urging that the 10 suspended C. I. O. unions be allowed representation at the November cone vention of the federation, with sube committees of the federation and the C. L. O. to meet in the meantime to seek reconciliation of the breach. ‘The resolution was adopted shortly after the union became an identity proceeding from a consolidation of the United Hatters and the Cap and Millinery Workers, Max Zaritsky, who was president of the Cap and Millinery Workers and is expected to continue as president of the enlarged union, is under suspension by the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. for his affiliation with the C. I O. It is with Zaritsky and David Dubin- sky, president of the International Ladies’ Garment .Workers, and also a member of the C. I. O., that Green is dexpecced to confer over the week end, Green Silent. The federation president denied yesterday afternoon that such a meeting has been scheduled but ad- | mitted that he “might see” Dubin- Briton, Jefferso N Superintendent’s Gaze Penetrates Monocle and English Accent. A monocle over the left eye and the pionounced English accent of the man who greeted him did not keep Superintendent Thomas Rhodes of the Thomas Jefferson estate at Mon- ticello, Va., from recognizing a mem= ber of the Jefferson family. When -Fred Jefferson. middle-aged industrialist, distant kinsman and admirer of the third President, and son of another Thomas Jefferson, paid his first visit this week to Monticello, Rhodes told him: “I could tell you were a Jefferson.” Fred Jefferson, the visitor, was sur- prised to find Thomas Jefferson dis- cussed in the campaign, with speakers debating what he would think of the New Deal. | Can’t Understand Voteless D C. Both the New Deal and the Ameri- can system of ‘Government in general | are somewhat of & puzzle to Fred Jefferson. He cannot understand why Congress denies legal residents of the District the right to vote. But of Thomas Jefferson and the campaign, he drew the: conclusion: “Both sides would like to have him back again. Both sides would claim his as their leader. He would be equal to the occasion.” | { In England, Fred Jefferson is con- | sidered an authority on the American | Jefferson. His visit to Monticello sat- isfied the ambition of a lifetime. Fred Jefferson, with his monocle, and attired in a bathrobe after a late | breakfast, was interviewed in his suite at the Mayflower Hotel. Today, he and his wife, who are accompanied by Mr. {and Mrs. Martin L. Slattery, Amer-| icans who have lived in England 15| years, were to leave for New York. “We had a great time at Monti- | cello,” he said. “It was one of the | greatest thrills of my life, because it | satisfied & lifetime ambition to see the place. | Cites Neglect. “One thing that struck me very + forcibly was that the Nation had not taken over that marvelous place. In | England we have a national trust un- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO n’s Distant Kin, Recognized at Montkeuo FRED JEFFERSON, der government subsidy that buys up the historic places. I understand Monticello went to ruin for a long time. But the whole atmosphére there was simply marvelous. “Thomas Jefferson’s life has been an incentive to me ever since I was able to read. He did so much in an age when few men dared to attempt such feats in Government.” Jefferson was presented at Monti- cello with a mallet made of wood from a tree planted by the third President. “Everything I saw there reminded me of my own father, who also was | Thomas Jefferson, also a lawyer ana also a builder,” Jefferson said. “My father was able to build although he was not a trained architect.” Asked his opinion of the British foreign policy of the last six months, Jeflerson replied “you cannot put an old head on young shoulders.” He | referred to the foreign minister, Anthony Eden. The salvation of a troubled world, he believes, lies in| British-American co-operation gor | peace. Fred Jefferson operates a printing | business. He never displaces workers with labor-saving devices. New ma- chinery in his plant means more work, he said. The workers, more | than 2,000, share in the profits. RS, THOMAS T UNOERSSOBOND Wife of Man Killed in Mail Bomb Explosion Held as Witness. Bv tne Assoctated Press. EASTVILLE, Va,, October 10.—The records of the Northampton Circuit sky and Zaritsky. | 1 Green declined to comment yester- = Court today showed that Mrs. Curry | day on the resolution but said he | Thomas, widow of & prosperous farmer had read it to the Executive Council, | Killed in the explosion of a mail bomb | now in quarterly session here, and | July 22, has been placed under $5,000 that action probably will be taken | bond for appearance as a witness at on it early next week. the trial of two men charged with the Although the proposal is being in- | slaying of her husband. terpreted in New York as another | Commonwealth’s Attorney Charles gesture toward peace between the | Lankford, jr, said Mrs. Thomas was labor factions, it is more significant | summoned as a material witness to note that neither Green nor John | against Dr. H. R. Hege, dentist, of L. Lewis, chairman of the C. I O, | Mount Airy, N. C., and Ed Banner, a has retreated or indicated any in- | W. P. A. foreman. tention of retreating from their re- | spective positions. These positions, | it may be added, are far apart, as| both factions have insisted upon | what amounts to complete surrender by the other. | Green Can Have Peace. From C. I. O. headquarters, for | The two men are in the Eastville Jail on charges of first-degree mur- der and Mrs. Thomas is recovering in the hospital at Nassawaddox from injuries received when the mail| bomb killed the farmer at his Cape ' Charles, Va., home. The prosecutor has guarded closely | instance, Lewis today remarked that | the evidence which he plans to lay | the proposal simply is the same view | before a regular session of the North- projected all along by that group. “If President Green wants peace | he' can conform to point 1 by re- storing the status quo ante bellum,” Lewis said. “As for point 2, we are always willing to do some talking, if they want to talk.” If, however, the proposal is ap: proved by the federation counci! and by the C. I. O., it would mean throw- | ing the whole fight over industrial organization of certain mass produce tion industries into the November con- vention. If the council’s suspension order remains in effect no C. I. O. representative would be allowed a seat at the convention. Hotels Unorganized. President Green yesterday reported & complication involving the Novem- ber convention in the failure of con- ferees of the federation and the Tam- pa hotels to compose differences over labor in the hotels. At the present time, he said, the hotels of the con- vention city are completely unorgan- ized and unless the managements agree to some adjustment within the next few days it.is possible the con- vention will be moved to another ecity. About 800 delegates and as many Mmore visitors attend the A. F. of L. conventions, which last through two weeks of sessions and about one more week of committee meetings. The council yesterday received a request for a charter from a union of State, municipal and county em- ployes. The union now has a mem- bership of about 12,000, Green said, with potential strength of 500,000. No action was taken on the request. mpton grand jury November 9. Dr. Hege, who employed Mrs. Thomas as a nurse in his office be- | | fore she met Thomas at Cape Charles this year, was arrested, together with Banner, in Carroll County on Monday night. ONE KILLED BY FALL, ANOTHER IS INJURED Falls down steps resulted in the death last night of one person and the injury of another. Andrew L. Moye, 44, died soon after falling from the third to second floor of his home at 3429 Thirty-fourth place. He was treated by his family physician. The body was removed to the morgue, where an autopsy was to be performed today. Police reported he struck his head against a door. Moye, a salesman, is survived by his wife and two children. Mrs. Emogene Haas, 73, 415 Fourth | street, suffered a fractured left leg when she fell from the first floor to the main landing of a stairway lead- ing to the basement of a 10-cent store in the 400 block of Seventh street. She was taken to Gallinger Hospital, where her condition was said today to be undetermjned. Transvaal Population Gains. European population of the Trans- vaal exceeds that of Cape Province for :hhz first time, South Africa’s census WS. Birds, Pioneers in F lying Atlantic, By the Assoctated Press. ‘When man climbs into an airplane and hops across the ocean and into the headlines, he is doing something that is countless centuries old, “Birds have been doing this for ages,” Dr. Frederick C. Lincoln of .the Biological Survey said today. He added that he was not belittling the accomplishments of human fiyers. But while man is aided by powerful machinery—radio, compass and charts —Lincoln said the birds depended on instinct and abilities that have puz- led scientists for thousands of years. - The champion distance traveler known to ornithologists 1s the Arctic tern, which nests in regions near the North Pole, then flies across the At- Jantic to Europe, and on down to the Antarctic beyond South Africa—an 11,000-mile trip—twice a year. ‘The golden plover, a bird about the size of the robin, is known to fly, non- stop, the 2,000 miles between Nova Scotia and South America over a land- less.route. Lincoln said the plover's flight, day and night, is accomplished with “con- Still Puzzle Man “To be as economical in operation, 8 1,000-pound airplane would mu:‘e ’i‘l;ell :gl-:]!ll’e flight, not- the gallon of consumed, but ! the biologist said. e Sy However, birds often encounter the same disasters that airplanes meet, Often a strong wind or freezing snow will kill thousands of migrating birds by plunging them into water, or through exhaustion and exposure, Lincoln said that until the Wash- ington Monument was lighted, hun- dreds of birds on their annual flights Ipllex:.nm to death against it in dark- Dig Up Ancient History. Workmen digging & sewer in a sub- urb of Auckland, New Zealand, have brought to light the unwritten history of a region whose written annals date back less than 200 years. They found the trunk of a kaurl pine two feet in diameter. Scientists think that many centuries ago the country around Auckland was heavily wooded and that the forest was buried by lava and ashes from nearby velcanic cones. sumption of less than 2 ounces of fuel 1n the form of body fat.” b/ Under Bond MRS. CURRY THOMAS. —A. P, Photo. POTOMAG BRIDGE UPENST_UMURRUW; Harpers Ferry Railroad| Span Planked for Auto Traffic. B the Associated Press. HAGERSTOWN, Md., October 10.— Automobile traffic over the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, suspended since the March floods, will be re- stored at 7 a.m. tomorrow with the opening of the railroad bridge the: to motor vehicles. . Dr. Homer E. Tabler, chairman of the ‘Btate Roads Commission, an- nounced that work of planking the bridge would be completed tonight. ‘The Harpers Ferry toll bridge, washed out' by the flood, was the only con- necting link at that point between Maryland and West Virginia. The roads commissions of the two States rented the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bridge, constructed ap- proaches, and laid planks across it for temporary use until a new span is constructed at Sandy Hook, a mile south of the toll bridge location. Dr. Tabler said a special signal system is being installed on the tem- porary bridge to warn motorists of trains. Four trains will continue to use the span daily. If the system is not completed by tomorrow morning, he said, watchmen will be stationed at either end. The roads commission chairman announced also that plans for three new bridges across the Potomac, in- cluding the - Sandy Hook project, would be ready for advertisement of bids between now and the end of the month. The other bridges are Jocated at Shepherdstown and Hancock. 34 POLICEMEN FINISH COURSE OF INSTRUCTION Schooled in criminol of 34 selected ofluflh-r,e‘pt:mxnt‘:“n: that number of police today graduated from the National Police Academy of the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation. On receiving their diplomas from . Edgar Hoover, director of the P. B. 1, the graduates were welcomed r of the academy, which convened at the Jus- tice Department for its first reunion. The alumni, numbering 81 ‘men, Today’s graduating class began its studies last July 20. In addition to learning all phases of fingerprinting, VAR PREVENTN COUNEL ADOPTS PEACE PROGRAM Immediate Arms Cut, Muni- tions Nationalization De- manded by Group. NEUTRALITY PLAN CALLS FOR LOAN RESTRICTIONS End of MacArthur's Service to Philippine Commonwealth Among Resolutions. A 19-point program for the preser- vation of peace was adopted late yes- terday at the concluding session of the ninth annual meeting of the Na- tional Council for Prevention of War, held in the Lee House. Principal demands were: Immediate reduction of armaments and military forces to a size necessary only for “protection of the soil of the United States against invasion”; cessation of Government aid to military train- ing in high schools; ing of inter- national trade tensions” and stabiliza- tion of currencies; nationalization of the munitions industry and “zealous maintenance of complete freedom of conscience, press speech and as- sembly,” The council’s resolutions form the basis of a legislative program to be furthered at the next session of Con- gress after submission to farm, labor, young people’s, women's and religious oups. With the forthcoming Pan-Ameri- can Peace Conference in mind, the council recommended that agreements be sought with other governments to extend the existing neutrality pro- gram. The neutrality plank also calls for restrictions to cover war mate- rials other than arms, ammunition and loans and credits to belligerent nations, on which the council pro- posed an embargo during times of | war. Adopted Unanimously. Representatives of the council’s 31 affiliated organizations adopted the resolutions unanimously. The withdrawal of all American | military forces from the Philippines and discontinuance of the services of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and other American officers as advisers to the new commonwealth were recommend- ed. Support was tendered the Nye- Kvale bill calling for elimination of compulsory military training require- ments in civil educational institutions and the proposal of the Nye Muni- tions Committee for a national refer- endum in 1938 on conscription in the event of war on foreign soil. The council also urged: Continuance of that section of the ‘Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 that forbids further fortifications of United States island possessions in the West- ern Pacific. “Industrial Mobilization” Hit. Discard of the War Department plan for industrial mobilization invelving conscription of labor and all other manpower in case of war of pational emergency. “Prompt efforts in preparation for a world conference for general eco- nomic appeasement.” Support of the Kellogg Pact and World Court. A ban on arms and munitions ex- ports during peace time as well as in time of war abroad. A “drastic” war profits tax measure. The council concluded its list of recommendations with an expression of strong opposition to teachers’ oath laws and restrictions on the right of labor to organize for collective bar- gaining or other purposes. RAY AGAIN HEADS BRIGHTWOOD GROUP Proctor and Randolph Also Win Offices in Citizens’ Association. Charles W. Ray was re-elected pres- ident of the Brightwood Citizens’ Association for the nineteenth year last night at the annual meeting in the Paul Junior High School, Eighth and Peabody streets. Other officers elected were: John Clagett Proctor, L. F. Randolph, Prof. L. J. Cantrell and A. Y. Casanova, vice presidents; J. W. Ferriter, cor- responding secretary; S. A. Swiggert, recording secretary, and Elmer John- son, financial secretary and treasurer, and William McK. Clayton and John A. Saul, delegates to the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. Ray announced appointment of the following committee chairmen: Utili- ties, Clayton; taxatlon and legislation, John A. Saul; zoning, Randolph; public schools and playgrounds, W. B. Bell; streets, lights and parks, Capt. Walter Emerson; fire and police, Elmer Johnson; post office, Richard Sauer; historical and Memorial day, Proctor; membership, P. J. Monahan; health and sanitation, W. E. Brown; program, George R. Wilhelm, and library, A. Y. Casanova. After general discussion of the street railway situation, two resolu- tions were unanimously adopted, after presentation by Clayton. Strong op- position was expressed against aban- donment of the line of the Capital Transit Co. on Third and Kennedy streets, connecting' with the Four- teenth street line at Colorado avenue. This resolution stated. that “the as- sociation renewed its demand for through rail service on the Fourteenth street line to and from the business center of the city. No makeshift, Mohammed Teaching, Mohammed taught his followers that D. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1936. Trbuble Goes a Fishin>—No Luck Trouble, 3-year-old Boston terrier, gets her first glimpse of gold fish and is making a des; effort to catch them, but is baffiled by the glass. Alezandria, was brought to The Star Building by her owner and was quickly lured by the sight of the fish, belonging to Miss Margaret Germond. Gold fish in an aquarium are generally very dif- ficult to photograph. cus trainer in Texas Thursday after he awoke her suddenly might have been frightened into violent action by a nightmare. | During his years as assistant chief | of the menagerie for the old Barnum & Bailey show Headkeeper W. H. | Blackburne of the Zoo often heard | & sleeping elephant trumpet with | terror when plagued by troubled dreams. “I know they had bad dreams,” Blackburne said, “because a sleeping elephant sometimes bellowed until he awakened every member of the herd except himself. “We had to rouse the sleeper as quickly as possible before he stam- peded the whole lot.” The elephant which killed a man Thursday crushed him against the side of a Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey box car being unloaded at Beaumont. Blackburne, who saw Jumbo, the | most famous elephant in the world, killed by a freight train in St. Thomas, Canada, in September of 1885, said | Blackburn Thinks Nightmare Might Make Elephant Kill Zoo Headkeeper Recalls Wild Trumpet- ing That Almost Stampeded Circus Herd. The elephant which killed a cir-|an ill-tempered elephant is particu- larly dangerous while chained in a box car. | “There is little room to work around | an elephant in a box car,” the veteran | keeper said, “and many an animal | | man has been crippled or killed when | | some elephant crowded him against | the sides of a car. | “Many aged elephants sleep stand- |ing up. Jumbo never laid down to | | sleep once during his three years | with Barnum & Bailey. Old Babe, | jthz elephant given us by the circus |two years ago, has not laid down | since she’s been here. “They tell me she slept standing | up for years before the circus turned | her over to us. “Most elephants are light sleepers, and I never heard they were par- ticularly ill tempered when wakened suddenly.” The trainers of the circus explained | Trouble, owned by Mrs. Clarke Slayma erate er of k —Star Staff Photo. CHARLES JOHNSON FREE AFTER PROBE No Grounds for Stolen Car Charge Against Boys, D. C. Police Told. Charles I. Johnson, 15, of Capitol Heights, Md., was released yesterday | from the Receiving Home, where he had been held for investigation after his arrest Thursday with two other boys in & car wich Maryland police had reported stolen. Maryland authorities notified police here that there were no grounds for a stolen car charge. One of the youths was kept at the Receiving Home, however, pending a Juvenile | Court hearing on other charges, not involving car theft. ‘The car in which Johnson and the others were riding when arrested by eleventh precinct police had been re- ported stolen from Capitol Heights, The Johnson boy recently obtained a court order abrogating a six-year sentence imposed on him by Judge Fay Bentley of Juvenile Court. Pleading guilty to a charge of illegal | the elephant became a temporary | entry in January, 1935, he was placed killer because startled from a sound | on a year’s probation by Judge Bentley. sleep. They said the beast other- wise was good natured and now is suffering from remorse. 2 PARTY' INQUIRY CROP ESTIMATES RISE 2 PER CENT URGED FORW.P.A. Republicans Demand Non- Partisan Probe—Rivals Hit “Wild Charges.” By the Assoctated Press. $800,000,000 Increase in! Cash Income From Farms’ Yield Predicted. By the Associated Press. Six months later his probation was revoked for playing hookey and he was | placed in a home maintained by the Board of Public Welfare. He escaped | and got & job in the Agriculture De- partment, using part of his salary to ' support his mother. He was appre- hended, however, and Judge Bentley ordered him committed to the Na- tional Training School until he was 21. Johnson appeaizd to District Court, contending Judge Bentley had no au- thority to impose more than the original one-year sentence after re- probation. Justice Jennings voking Bailey ordered the boy's release. COMMUNIST RADIO ALL T PLEASANT CARS REROTED OVER F STREE Change Tomorrow Intended - to Avoid “Split Line” Confusion. 13TH AND D CARS TO BE SHIFTED BACK Commission Informed Thorough-* fare Can Carry Traffic Re- quired Under Plan. All cars of the Mount Pleasant line, beginning tomorrow, will be sent through downtown P street, instead of G street, under a rerouting plan of Capital Transit Co., which has th approval of the Public Utilities Com« mission, it was announced today. For several months, the Mount Pleasant-Thirteenth and D northeast line has been routed down Seventeentn street, east on Pennsylvania avenue, south on Fifteenth street and then ecast on G street. The Mount Pleasan Seventeenth and Pennsylvania aven: southeast cars, however, were con. tinued on their old route througa downtown P street. This split in the line, through down- town Washington, was adopted with completion of track work at Fifteentn and G streets on the assumption P street could not carry all of the traffic. Would Avoid Confusion, Company officials now have informed * the commission F street can stand the traffic and the Thirteenth and D northeast cars will be shifted back t» F street as a means of avoiding any confusion as to where Mount P | cars travel through section. The commission and the company gradually are completing final car schedules under the final rerouting plan submitted recently by the come | pany and on which the commission | will base an order soon. Commission officials said today this order probably will be effective November 15, | There is still uncertainty, however, , as to final transportation plans for | Takoma Park and the sections Jying | immediately to the south. The com- | mission said today it had received | Suggestions from several groups in the affected sections proposing estab- lishment of bus service to replace | Street car service on the line uhing Third and Kennedy streets and tying in with the Fourteenth street line at Colorado avenue. Shuttle Bus Proposition. These suggestions are for abandon-" ment of the tracks on Third street and on Kennedy street from Third to Four- | teenth street, and the establishment of a shuttle bus from Takoma to Fourteenth street and Colorado avenue, where there would be transfers to the Fourteenth street line, and the establishment of a regular base day bus service from Takoma to downtown Washington via Grant Circle. The suggestion also proposes cone tinuation of the Thirteenth street ex- press bus service from Takoma. The commission is studying this suggestion, but no decision has been reached. It was said civic groups are discussing the proposals in conferences with officials of the company. TREASURY WILL AID RESETTLEMENT UNIT To Supervise Accounting in Ex: the congested penditure of Work Relief SPEECHES ATTACKED, A week of sharp fighting over W. P. A. culminated today in a Repub- lican demand for a bipartisian board of inquiry and a Democratic reply that “wild charges” of political coer- cion of W. P. A. workers had been refuted. William Hard, Republican National Committee commentator, demanded that the New Deal “name its own committee, with an equal number of Pennsylvania Republicans, to conduct an immediate inquiry into evident rottenness” in the Keystone State's W.P. A Harry L. Hopkins declared “we have refuted by affidavit dozens of wild charges made by William Hard and his crowd. But the parade of the scarecrows goes on.” Hopkins, the Works Progress Ad- ministration chief, also accused Col. Frank Knox of spreading “fake” stories. During the week Hard has been sending to the Senate Campaign In- vestigating = Committee documents which, .he said, proved his charges. In demanding a special inquiry, he said Hopkins should promise that any W.-P. A. worker who testified would not lose his job. “The charge,” Hard said, “is that the Pennsylvania W. P. A. is being used for campaign purposes by the New Deal party.” Hopkins declared Col. Knox “elec- trified” listeners in Washington State with a charge that W. P. A, was spending millions to control malaria in Maine, where thé disease Was prac- tically unknown. “Col. Knox made two speeches in Maine last month. * * * Why didn't he tell his fake story about Maine malaria control to the people of Maine?” Hopkins demanded. ene MESSENGER IS RETIRED FROM FEDERAL SERVICE Colored Employe at Internal Rev- enue Is Presented With ‘Watch and Chain. was presented with a gold watch and chain. ¢ _Commissioner Guy T. Helvering per- sonally presented the watch. Messenger Harris entered the Gov- ernment service in the Bureau of Internal Revenue December 1, 1891, and has been personal messenger all the commissioners of internal revenue, from the first, John W. down to Commissioner Helvering. Harris also has been active in church and fraternal arganizations. For over Church. Fellows in w exalted ruler | Oregon and Californis,” the depart-| The Because of big rains, the consumer | today faced the pleasant prospect of | lower food costs during the coming | Winter and Spring than he had been led to believe would prevail. This improved outlook followed a 2 per cent upturn of crop estimates made { public by the Federal Crop Reporting Board of the Department of Agri- culture. The Agriculture Department also predicted that cash income from this year's farm yield would be $800,000,- 000 above last year. The estimated yield of this year's corn crop, the prime indicator of the Nation's food supply, was increased by 51,000,000 over the forecast of Sep- tember 1. The indicated crop October 1 was 1.509,362,000 bushels, higher than that of the 1934 drought year. The new figure robs the 1936 corn crop of its former status as the low- est on record since 1881. Corn crops exceeding five-year av- erage production were forecast for nine Southern States. The condition on October 1 arrd the indicated con- dition of the corn crop for States near here were given as: Virginia, condition 71 per cent of normal, and indicated production 30,659,000; West Virginia, 67 and 12,627,000; North Carolina, 81 and 44,918,000. 2 Another big gain for September was & 10,000,000 bushel increase in the forecast for Irish potatoes, an important food ‘item. However, the indicated crop of 322,263,000 bushels was about 50,000,000 bushels below the five-year average of 372,115,000 Pasture condition—important to millions :of head of live stock for food—was said to have “made one of the most remarkable recoveries on record in any one month” as rains re- freshed seared acres. Other gains were reported for oats, rice, tobacco, grain sorghums and buckwheat. , Maryland tobacco prospects were said to have continuéd to show im- provement during September and in- dications were for s production of 27,900,000 pounds, compared with 26,- 820,000 harvested in 1935. Total wheat production this year was revised downward to 637,233,000 bushels, compared with 630,241,000 & month earlier. The 1935 wheat yield was 623,444,000, while the five-year Other crops in which estimated yield this year was reduced included bar- ley, flaxseed, apples and sweet po- tatoes. fresh consumption, at | bushels, compared with 66,274,000 of | pushels, the record low production | The truth is that a Valonia beard of 1921, “Commercial crop prospects have declined since September 1 in such important States as Maryland, Vir- ginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Illinois, Idaho and Washington, but improved conditions are noted in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, ment said. Two Officials of Local Patriotic, and Civic Organizations Urge Ban. Communist radio speeches yesterday were protested by two officials of local patriotic and civic organizations in telegrams to the Federal Radio Com- | mission. Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, president of the Columbia Heights Citizens’ Association, and E. Claude Babcock, president of the United Civil Service Employes, who made the protests, demanded that no further permission to speak be granted ng-inl to any “seditious and un-American organization.” Mrs. Worrell, who also is legislative chairman of the Department of the Potomac of the Ladies of the Grand Armmy. of the Republic, further de- clsred: “The Communist party is against the Government and seeks the overthrow of our Government. It has no place on the ballot.” Her telegram commended officials of Terre Haute, Ind, for arresting Earl Browder, Communist leader, and Funds. Resettlement Administration ac- counting has been placed under super= vision of the Treasury Department, it was learned today. It is the last of the agencies created to spend the $4,800,000,000 work relief money ore dered into Treasury jurisdiction. The primary reason for the- move . was to effect a segrogation on the books of repayments of money due R. A. and money due State rural ree habilitation corporations, which pree ceded Resettlement in making loans to farmers. As a result of R. A’s lumping to- gether the money in one special de- posit fund and of combining commit- ments on the books, it was said that no accurate figures were available on the status of rural rehabilitation loans | taken over by R. A. from the States of Federal rehabilitation loans made to farmers who already had received * State loans. Treasury officials estimate that $1,000,000 & year in administrative ex« | penses will be saved through its seg- :rezatmg the accounts. Under a presie dential executive order of May, 1935, all agencies spending the $4,800,000,000 fund were to be brought under the forbidding him to speak there. Treasury. Beards and Dragon’s Blood On Market for Americans A man in Piraeus, Greece, with' chants. The offering of this Oriental | more beards than he can use himself, ’ merchant sounds just as romantic wants to sell a few in this country.| and is just as commonplace as the And there's dragon’s blood to be beards of the man in Piareaus; bought by the barrel in Straits Set- | dragon’s blood is not a waste product 4 tiement. Judging from what the hairy Hel- lene has to say, the world beard mar- ket is facing a minor crisis. He took his trouble to the Amer- ican Consul in Athens and the Cone sul wrote the Commerce Department. And today from that agency the news went around America: Trade opportunity in Greece. At- tention, importers. Man in Piraeus wants to sell you all the Velonia beards you can buy. Coming o close to Halloween, when children like to hide behind face fuzz, this unlimited whisker offer might be expected to bring to Piraeus a flood of requests, many of them Not Like Tennyson’s. and better games of beaver in the offing if the beards the beauty Tennyson used in the breeze—but they are not. is nothing but the hairy adornment of a dried chestnut which grows in Greece and which is popular with tanners for dressing sole leather. Chestnut and all are known as & beard. It is used also for making ink, and the Hellenes grind it up for ! 's blood dealer is Mac- Phail & Co, Lid, Singapore mer- an? $ unwanted by the St. Georges, but only a red dye. The same Department of Commerce man who received the big Greek beard offer got & letter from Peru the other day saying there aren’t enough razors, barber chairs and after-shave smellum » in Lima to satisfy the smoothies there. Send us barber supplies was the tenor of the note. Now All Over World. ‘The requests to buy and sell come from all over the world, and in the letters one can read a line on the state of civilization and society in & hundred countries and communities. Sumatra, in the jungle belt, south of Sinapore, seeks masculine jewelry— tie clips, collar pins, cuff links. To top it off, says Sumatra, send over some briar pipes. Santiago, Chile, hints that the pop- + ulace finds it tough going to get up the next morning. They want alarm clocks down there. Triple keyboard typewriters is the dire need of China—machines that can play English, French and Russian all at once. If you're looking for & pet, write the United States Consul in Calcutta, India. He knows a man with iive snakes for sale, ones you can charm. ‘The international garlic situation is lively. Vienna wants to sell us sev- eral hundred whiffs and Havana wants to buy it.