Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1936, Page 26

BRI BALAKGEFDRL S Favorable Position Shown in Report Covering First 10 Months of Year. B3 the Associated Press. ‘Moving back into its normal trade position, a Commerce Department report showed today that the United | States sold $20,092,000 more than it bought from foreign countries in the | first 10 months of this year. Officials said this excess of exports assured that the country would end this year with shipments abroad top- ping purchases, because substantial THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1936. Driver Swerving to Miss Girl Strikes and Kills Her F qther export balances always are realized in | ° the final quarter. | & For the first nine months of this year, imports had exceeded exports by about $33,000,000, but a $52,707,000 excess of shipments during October weighed the balance of foreign trade to the export side. For the first 10 months of this year, exports aggregated $1.997.681,000, an increase of $208,114,000 over the sim- ilar period last year. Imports were set at $1.977,589,000, an upturn of $296,457,000. October foreign trade also was larger than that for the same month a year ago, exports totaling $264,708,000, an increase of $43,000,000, and imports | $212,001,000, a rise of $23,000,000. The excess of exports in October was | $21,000,000 above the export balance | for the same month & year ago. Raw | cotton, tobacco, machinery, vehicles and iron and steel products, the de- partment said, accounted largely for the increase. ‘The import rise was attributed main- Iy to increased purchases of meats, grains, feeds, fruits and nuts, cocoa, | alcoholic beverages, crude rubber, flax- seed, raw wool, newsprint, tin and fer- tilizers. Increasing 20 per cent over Septem- ber the October export upturn was de- scribed as seasonal, while a 2 per cent | drop in imports under September was | contrary to the usual movement. £ ] ALICE SHERWOOD. —Star Staff Photo. " |and Rhodes street, in Colonial Vil- lage, Va., not far from their Arlington home. Alice had started across the inter- section ahead of her father. She had gone only a few steps when she heard the car. Turning, she saw the machine | strike her father and drag him sev- eral feet along the ground. Sherwood was the. father of seven ||f children, whose ages range from 7 to | years. i | Sherwood was rushed to Emergency D S ERWOOD. “him dead. The driver, Jesse Dodd, | 4700 block of Sixteenth street, was || 15-year-old daughter | released on $500 bond, pending a hear- | | While his watched helplessly, Daniel C. Sher-|ing next Tuesday. Police quoted him wood, 64, a veteran employe of the as saying he saw the girl, who was District Sewer Department, was killed | wearing a light-colored coat, but last night by an automobile swerved | not see Sherwood a few steps behind by its driver in an effort to avoid | her. striking the girl. | Two other persons died here of in- The accident occurred as Sherwood | juries received in automobile accidents, and his daughter Alice were crossing | police reported. the intersection of Wilson boulevard ! to Form Invitations BETTER DRESSES—THIRD FLOOR 25-year-old C. C. C. worker, who died in Walter Reed Hospital|said his early todey. His neck was broken in & motor cycle-truck accident at Car- rollton, Ky., several days ago. A short while before the Virginia mishap Benjamin Hull, 35, of 3054 Clifton street northeast, died in of an automobfle crash on the Defense Highway near Ardmore, Md., early yesterday. Cooper Heard, 22, of 1132 E street northeast, was killed. 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