Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1936, Page 9

FARM IMPORTS UP; EXPORTS DECLINE Total for All Products Sent Abroad Is Greater Than, 1935, However, A decline in the valye of farm prod- ucts exported by this country in the first quarter of the current fiscal year and an increase in agricultural imports for. the same period compared with 1935 were reported yesterday by the Agriculture Department. For the July through September period this year the value of all agri- cultural exports was placed at $152.- 635,000 as against $158,613,000 for the same months in 1935. Imports of all agricultural products for the June-September period were valued at $322,796,000, as against $286.236,000. Of these imports “competitive farm products” were valued at $154,839,000 the first quarter of the present fiscal year as against $145,144,000 in 1935. While value of farm products ex- ports declined, sales of other goods were large enough to bring the export total to $569,209,000, well above the 1935 total of $533,588,000. Total imports for the quarter this| 'CONTRACTORS’ UNIT year of $615,043,000 also were above the same three months last year, when they were valued at $522,161,000. Cotton exports valued at $60,025,000 for June-September this year and $66.253,000 in 1935, and tobacco val- ued at $32,799,000 this season and £36.860,000 last, comprised the bulk of this country’s sales to the world in farm products both years. Volume of exports for this Sep- tember showed a “marked rise,” the department said, reaching 63 per cent of pre-war levels, the highest index for any month this year and also | | at the Willard Hotel to consider imme- | above September the last two years. Cotton rose to 79 per cent of pré- war volume, with tobacco at 134 per cent. Fruit export volume was below August and last September but still 327 per cent of pre-war volume, LEAGUE OF COAST GUARD TO HEAR MME. UTGOF Widow of Russian Naval Officer to Talk at Meeting’ Wednesday. Mme. Lydia Utgoff, widow of Comdr. Victor V. Utgoff of the im- perial Russian navy, killed in & plane crash while attached to the flying service of the United States Coast Guard, will address the League of Coast Guard Women at its annual meeting and luncheon at the Co- lumbia Country Club next Wednes- day. Mrs. Russel R. Waesche, wife of the Coast Guard commandant, will preside at the business meeting, which begins at 10 am. Among the guests will be Mrs. ‘Henry Morgenthau, jr., wife of the Secretary of Treasury; Mrs. George T. Pettengill, head of the Navy relief here; Mrs. Thomas Parran, wife of the surgeon general of the Public Health Service; Miss Edith Spray of the American Red Cross, and Mrs. F. C. Billard, widow of ‘Admiral Bil- lard, League. Parliament Did Nothing. The so-called “addled Parliament” met on April 6, 1914, sat through two months and was dissolved by James ‘without h g passed a single bill. Democratic party. parade here. activities durmv the la:t three THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 15, Slated for Inaugural Parade Lieut.-Gov. J. B. Snider of MiSsissippi with a donkey that will be presented to James A. Farley as the official mascot of the The donkey will appear in the inaugural The donkey has been featured in Democratic years. —Wide World Photo. TO HOLD MEETING i’xogram for Betterment of Con- struction Companies to Be Considered. The Governing and Advisory Boards of the Associated General Contrac- tors of America will hold their annual Fall meeting tomorrow and Tuesday diate development of & program ror betterment of the construction com- | pany. | President W. A. Klinger, Sioux | ‘Cuy Iowa, and Managing Director | ‘E J. Harding, Washington, who last month made an extensive joint tour | through the West for the association, | | will submit reports and recommenda- | | “ tions based upon observations and exchanges during their fleld contacts. | Major consideration will be lwen to the questions of accelerating con- | struction revival, continuing highway | and public works construction and combating day-labor competition by governmental agencies. 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