Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1936, Page 4

A= = e THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1936. FIVE TRADE GROUPS HITBY COMMISSION Auto Parts Makers Charged With Combining to Con- trol U. S. Markets. By the Assoctated Press. The Federal Trade Commission an- nounced “today it has accused five trade associations, composed of manu- facturers and jobbers of automobile parts and accessories, of forming & eombination to control the market in these products throughout the United Btates. Two of the organizations, the Na- tional Standard Parts Association of Detroit and the Motor and Equipment Wholesale Association of Chicago, were described as national organiza- Sions. ‘The other three respondents are Middle Western regional groups. They are the Automotive Trades Association pf Greater Kansas City, Mo.; Missis- »ippi Valley Automotive Jobbers' As- ‘sociation and the Southwestern Job- bers' Association. The complaint also _named as respondents the officers, di- Irectors and members of the five asso- tiations. The commission’s announcement |satd the complaint alleges substan- ‘lm]]y the same violations as com- plaints previously issued against the National Standard Parts Associations and others, and the Motor and Equip- ment Wholesale Association and others. Both these cases have been closed. The new complaint, it was said, is expected to simplify trial of the charges. ‘The commission alleged the five associations, “representing a substan- tial proportion of the total volume of business of all manufacturers and jobbers of automobile parts and ac- cessories throughout the United States,” were organized “for the pur- pose of binding together the largest possible number of competing indi- viduals, partnerships and corpora- tions, as members, and of obtaining their co-operation for a common end.” In “promoting their common in- terests of seeking control of the market and of the prices of their products,” the commission alleged, the assoclations “have combined together with others, jointly preventing the establishment of new and additional competitors, and executing certain agreements and conspiracies among themselves and with others.” ‘The practices alleged to have been put in force included efforts to monopolize distribution of automobile parts and accessories in the hands of so-called “legitimate jobbers, meaning jobbers who have made known their willingness to maintain resale prices d by manufacturer-members.” 1 WOODWARD & T @ X} Irish DOfiblejt[i)anvi;;kk 3 Linen Table Clothss W hite Damask Returns ECONONY BLAMED FORTYPHOONTOLL Quezon Says Failure to Re- pair Dykes Caused Many Deaths. BY the Associsted Press. MANILA, P. I, October 17.—Presi- dent Manuel Quezon blamed “false economy” of the government yesterday for part of the heavy loss of life from the typhoon and subsequent floods which swept Northern Luzon Island. Known dead were placed at 546 today and little hope was held for 1,045 missing. During the last three years, Quezon said at a press conference, the gov- ernment was s0 anxious to show a surplus in the treasury it failed to maintain important river dykes. The President said at least 100 peo- ple were killed as a result of dyke breaks. Quezon said it would cost the Com- monwealth $500,000 to repair the dykes damaged by the three-day storm which started a week ago today, while they could have been maintained to withstand the floods at a cost of ,000 to $75,000 & year. They will be repaired immediately, Quezon promised. 3 Quezon said he was speeding relief work as much as possible and would ask the National Assembly to appro- priate $500,000 for relief and author- ize him to disburse it. flooded provinces north of Manila was “heartbreaking.” A thousand sacks of rice were do- nated to flood victims by the Nationad Rice Gorp.,, & government agency. HOUSEMAID ‘AUTHORESS TO RETURN TO FINLAND By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 17.—Sally Salminen, 30, the housemaid who won a $1,100 prize with a novel about the women left behind by the men who g0 down to the sea in ships, said to- day she wants to go back to Finland to see the homefolks. In about two weeks, the petite, blond servant said, she will sail for her home on the Aaland Islands, mid- way between Sweden and Denmark. There she will visit her mother and 11 brothers and sisters and study the sturdy farmers and seafarers of the islands, the people of whom she wrote, Her story of “Katrina,” which won a competition for the best novel writ- ten in Swedish, was put down in long- hand, she said, most of it at night over a period of two years. Many | chapters were rewritten two or more times. R "',_\v' ‘The President said his tour of the|. to Smart Tables . . .and wise, indeed, is the hostess who adorns her table with the gracious crisp- ness of one of these snowy imported pure Irish linen cloths. A fit accompaniment to sparkling glass and lustrous silver. 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