Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1937, Page 7

FO0D PRUES SUAR DRDUGHT BLANED Steady Increase Promised by Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Boaring food prices today brought & U.S. Seeks Historic Plane keen reminder to city dwellers of the cost of last Summer’s drought. Veal went from 39 cents to 72 cents | & pound in three days, although the | Department of Agriculture offered | hope that meat would not reach the high of the Spring of 1935, when pork | F chops became a luxury food. A steady increase was promised, | however, in a bulletin of the Bureau | of Agricaltural Economics: | “During the Winter and early Spring | of 1937 live stock producers will be | confronted with a general shortage of feed and high feed costs. Live stock | feeding ratios will be generally unfa- | vorable during the forepart of the | year. : | “After the heavy Winter marketing i ©of hogs is over supplies during the rest | of the year are expected to be reduced | sufficiently to cause a rather sharp advance in hog prices. “Cattle prices in 1937 will have to be considerably above those of 1935 and 1936 for cattle feeding to be profitable. Prices of unfinished cattle are much higher than they were two years ago | and feed costs are somewhat higher. Stock Demand Seen. “Where there is a choice the fatten- ing of live stock this Winter should be limited if. by so doing. the sacrifice of foundation stock can be avoided. A strong demand for replacement stock | of all kinds is in prospect in 1937, if | erop production and pasture condi- tions are fairly normal. This will result in relatively high prices for cows and heifers. The price upswing is a reaction | from the low prices of last Fall, which. | reached their depth in mid-November, caused by an oversupplied market. Farmers at the close of the drought “liquidated” their stocks to save them the expense of feeding more animals Air Trllvel COMinlws Gain In Spite of Plane Crashes e [ Curtain SALE Effect on Passenger Lists Not Noticeable than they could reasonably afford in the face of a high feed market. The farmers profited as a result of the drought. Their gross income for last year is estimated at $9,530,- 000.000. 12 per cent better than in 1935. and almost double the 1932 low of $5.337.000,000. Short crops and high prices is the combination most | conducive to wealth among the | planters. Corn Price Leaps. | According to a Department of Agri- culture table on the course of farm prices, at the farm, the same bushel of corn available for 53 cents in De- | cember, 19 cost 95.6 cents in De- cember, 1936, Wheat went from 89 cents in De- eember, 1935, to $1.145 in December, 1936. Potatoes increased from 63.7 cents in December, 1935, to $1.063 cents a bushel last month. Beef cattle showed little variation— $6.14 per hundredweight December, ' 1935, and $6.17 last month. Hogs rose from $8.72 a hundred- ‘weight to $9.09, but chickens dropped | from 13.2 cents a pound to 12.6 cents. LEAGUE LAUDS PLAN | FOR MERIT SYSTEM Letter Tells President Widespread Support Will Be Given [ Civil Service. | The National Civil Service Reform League yesterday sent a letter to President Roosevelt promising to work | to the end that “Congress may carry | out your recommendations for making | the United States civil service worthy | of our democratic form of govern- ' ment.” Voicing satisfaction that many of the league's recommendations for im- | proving personnel procedure are em- | bodied in the presidential committee’s program, the letter, signed by Robert L. Johnson, president, says: “We are not unmindful that the committee’s ambitious program for ex+ tension and administration of the merit system may meet opposition in quarters where there may be a lack of appreciation of the vaiue of the merit system as a means of economical and | efficient Government administration. | We believe, however, that when the public realizes its potentialities, the ! program will have widespread sup- port.” | In the concluding program of the civil service week observance by the American Federation of Government Employes last night, Ira Y. Bain, na- tional vice president, outlined pending employe legislation, and said the out- Jook was the best in “a long time.” Bain spoke over WJSV in .he Labor News Review program. ACTRESS DIES AT 67 Marion Abbott Played With E. H. Sothern and Others. PHILADELPHIA, January 16 (#).- Miss Marion Abbott, character actress, who appeared in plays with E. H. Sothern, Maude Adams and others, died last night. She was 67. Miss Abbott, a native of Danville, Ky, had been living at the Edwin Forrest Home for Actors since her retirement in 1930. Her last Broad- ‘way appearance was in “I Want My ESTABLISHED 18122 SMALL *595 GRAND ‘.'r?“"'?r.“’#‘.‘!.‘ Though at the lowest price in its history it is traditionallyChickering in fineness of workman- ship, finish and quality. EASY TERMS ARTHUR JORDAN Piano Company 1239GSt. Cor. 13th | ing to available reports. Determined efforts are being made to bring the original airplane in which Wilbur and Orville Wright made their pioneer flights back to the United States to be placed in the Smithsonian Institution. The plane, as shown, hangs in the London Museum. THE SUNDAY STAR, —A. P. Photo. — After Day or So, Sa ys Director Vidal of If avallable passenger records are any criterion, air transportation has settled down to a point where airplane crashes have little more effect on pas- senger travel than does a serious rail- road or bus wreck on ground passen- | on many ger travel. So far as Bureau of Air Commerce officials can determine, the setbacks | in passenger travel following accidents are purely temporary and the effect is not noticeable for more than a day or two. “We have no specific figures upon | which we can base a judgment.” ex- | plained Eugene L. Vidal, director of | air commerce. “The Bureau of Air Commerce receives only monthly re- ports from the airlines. But the trend of these reports is always upward. For months on end, regardless of acci- dents, the monthly passenger figures have been growing and there has bean one new record after another. Of course, accidents have an effect on passenger travel, but it appears to be only temporary and then the march toward new records is resumed.” Of the recent series of air transport craches, beginning December 15 with the loss of a transport with' seven passengers in the Utah Mountains, only the last two, involving the loss of the United Airlines plane with all aboard, near Burbank, and the crash of the plane in which Martin Johnson died, appear to have had any measur- abel effect on passenger travel, accord- Travel Not Affected. There were three crashes during the 10 days before Christmas 1a. one two days after Christmas which, so0 far as can be determined, had no ef- | % & MEMBER FEOERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION # ¥ Bureau. fect whatever on passenger tiavel. | During the Christmas holidays all passenger traffic records on most air- | lines were broken and. even with every reserve airplane available pressed into service and with extra sections flights, passengers were turned away. Although the compila- | ap —the finest in music will give you superb command of the treasures of music, from the clossics of the immortols to the mosterpieces of modern artists . . . plus radio enter- tainment. No other automatic phonograph-radio combination has the exclusive Capehort record changer which ploys both sides of each record in succession, thereby automat- ically reproducing complete operas, symphonies and album sets of music in their correct sequence. We invite you to hear the music of your choice on this beautiful instrument. | merce Roper, and copies of proposed WASHINGTON, tion of December traffic figures has not yet been completed by the Com- merce Department, it is the opinion of airline officials in despite the series of four crashes, last month was the best December ir the history of Amer- ican air transportation. The Commerce Department has had no figures of any kind on January travel, but officials of the air transport companies operating out of Washing- ton report that, except for cancella~ tions due to bad weather, passenger travel is heavier than last year. “There undoubtedly has been a fall- ing off of business as a result of the two California crashes,” the traffic manager of one of the lines reported, “but not to the extent we had ex- pected. Very few passengers have canceled reservations and both local and transcontinental reservations are good.” In the meantime the Federal Gov- ernment is preparing to extract every bit of possible i.formation from the recent crashes with a view to prevent- ing accidents in the future from the | same causes. The Commerce Depart- | ment is arranging a conference, prob- | ably,_ during the second week in Febru- ary, with airline operators and pilots to consider any emergency regulations which may be considered necessary to meet the situation. Exhaustive official investigations of each of the recent crashes are in progress as a basis for study during the conference. 100 New Weather Stations. ‘The Weather Bureau Friday opened | 100 new weather-reporting stations at points off the lines of the main air- ways to fill gaps in its weather network for the further protection of pilots, and instituted six-hour observations at each of these stations. Weather in- struments are being brought up to uniform standards in each of the 100 stations on the airways and the pres- ent 50 off-the-airway stations. There is to be a general tightening up of air commerce regulations, it was explained by Secretary of Com- new air commerce regulations of non-emergency character, all designed to render the safety requirements more rigid, have been sent to all air transport operators. These changes, which have been under considera- tion and preparation for several months, are mostly in the nature of improvement and codification of ex- isting regulations, Roper explained. A clean bill of health was given Pederal airways aids in connection Formerly $1.50 to $2.95 McDevitt's 1317 F D. C, JANUARY 17, with the recent crashes by Col. J. Monroe Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. The Commerce De- partment radio beam system has functioned in every one of these ac- cidents, Johnson declared, and in no instance has been even a contrib- uting factor., Reports of “beam fail- ure” in connection with the latest California crash, according to Com- merce Department officials, refer to operation of the privately owned “lo- calizer” beacon at the Saugus Air- port and not to Federal airways aids. Roper and Johnson declined to comment upon the probable nature of the emergency regulations which may result from the February safety conference. These regulations, if any, will be decided upon at the con- ference and will meet the wishes of all concerned, in so far as possible, they sald. Spy Sentenced in France. Found guilty of spying in the forti- fied region of Bitche, France, Charles Bernhardt, a Frenchman, was sen- tenced at Metz to 8 years’ imprison- ment and 20 years’ local banishment. 1937—PART ONE. FINE ARTS DIVISION PROPOSAL FAVORED Women's Federation Directors for Creation in Office of Edu- cation. A plaa to create public sentiment for addition of a division of fine arts to the United States Office of Educa- tion was favorably received here yes- terday by the board of directors of the General Federation of Women'’s Clubs ending their annual three-day meet- ing. Mrs. John L. Whitehurst of Balti- more, Md., chairman of the feder- ation’s department of education, proj- ecting the proposal, stated that “there is no voice anywhere in our Govern- ment for the fine arts.” Mrs. Whitehurst also suggested | that the club women seek to arouse interest in compulsory crime-preven- | .tion studies and character building in | ! public schools throughout the couptry, | saying that “20 per cent of crime in the United States is committed by youth of less than voting age.” The board unanimously moved to| withdraw the federation from the Na- tional Council of Women on the grounds of conflicting policies, and made plans for the next annual fed- eration council meeting to be held in Tulsa, Okla., April 27-May 1. Carson C. Hathaway to Speak. Carson C. 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