Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1937, Page 2

WINDSORSMAY SEE U. . IN FEBRUARY Criticism Will Have Died by Then, Associate Believes, Opinion Now for Him. Roosevelt’s Reply To Windsor Letter Remains Secret By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt has ac- knowledged the Duke of Windsor’s message from Paris expressing regret over the postponement of his trip to the United States. White House officials declined to make public the President's answer, By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, Nov. 8.—A source close to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor said today the couple had decided tenta- tively on February as a possible new date for their postponed trip to the United States. Th Duke and Duchess believe that by that time “the criticism will have subsided,” making the tour possible, one of their associates said. ‘The Windsors expected to remain in Paris, at least until Armistice day, when they may participate in memo- rial observances “in a completely un- official capacity,” their associates said. Dispatches from Austria were that the Windsors might return to Vienna or to the Enzesfeld castle of Baron Eu- gene de Rothschild for a short stay or to spend the winter. Circles close to the former King said his plans for the immediate future still are indefinite. It was disclosed yesterday by . r- sons close to the Windsors that the Duke had sent a message to Presi- dent Roosevelt regretting he would be unable to make his scheduled call at the White House. Special police protected the Duke and Duchess during their afternoon drive and assured them privacy at their hotel. The Duke's associates placed before him what they described as evidence that his postponement of the journey to America had turned public opinion in his favor, The Duke read the statement of ‘Willlam Green, American Federation of Labor president, that he would be ‘welcomed by United States labor since Charles E. Bedaux, American indus- trial engineer whose association with the Duke was criticized by labor, would not be connected with the tour. LONDON, Nov. 8 (#).—Charles Bedaux, millionaire industrialist and key figure in the controversy which led to the postponement of the Amer- ican visit of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, resigned today from the Board of Directors of British Bedaux, Ltd., consulting industrial engineers. The announcement of his resigna- tion merely said it would in no way affect the management of the com- pany. OPTOMETRISTS TO MEET The American Optometric Associa- tion will hold a special meeting at the Lafayette Hotel tomorrow and ‘Wednesday under auspices of the Op- tometric Extension Program of the District of Columbia. Dr. Lewis H. Kraskin, who has of- fices in the Washington Loan & Trust Building, is in charge of arrange- ments for the meeting. Dr. Louis Hill, dental economist and psycholo- gist, will be the principal speaker. Daughter: Is Shot As Father Fires at Suitor He Dislikes “If Law Won’t Protect Home, Powder Will,” Says Parent. By o Btaff Correspondent ot The Star. LAUREL, Md, November 8— Thomas A. Merson, 75-year-old re- tired employe of the Navy Depart- ment, today justified firing a shot which early today wounded his 23- Year-old daughter Jeannette when she returned home in company with Isaac Xnisley, 36, of Savage, Md, at 1 am., by saying Knisley was a married man and father of five children. Knisley was unhurt. Merson, now living on his farm near here, said he laid in wait at his home until the couple returned and that when he fired the shot, he be- lieved his daughter had already en- tered the house. Although he had not left his home and police had broad- cast & lookout for him, no arrest had been made up to noon. Merson sald the police had not Yisited his farm home. Miss Merson was taken to Univer- sity Hospital in Baltimore, where shotgun pellets were removed from her acalp early today, after being treat- ed by Dr. Bryan P. Warren, a Laurel physician. She was to return to her home today. The father, who also is the father of Edward Merson, Prince Georges County policeman, who was killed in an accident early in September while answering a call in Muirkirk, Md., told By the Assoctated Press. COUSHATTA, La., Nov. 8.—Pretty R. Jessie Pepper, 18, was free under $3,000 bond today pending appeal from her conviction for manslaughter Sat- urday in the “gossip slaying” of Mary Elvin Allen, 17, her former chum. Judge James W. Jones, jr., sentenced the girl to serve 6 to 18 months in the State penitentiary. Jessie testified she shot her former friend, but only in self-defense after Mary Elvin had grappled with her in BORAH DEMANDS ANTITRUST AGTION Time Is “Now or Never,” Senator Declares on Eve of Special Session. | By the Associated Press. Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho sald today the time had come when lation “and not just talk about it.” “It is either now or never,” he said. President Roosevelt has proposed that the special session of Congress strengthen existing laws to “end re- strains now imposed upon business by private. monopolies and financial oli- garchies.” Attorney General Cummins said Wednesday that he did not believe it was possible to get a speedy solution of the anti-trust problem. “It will require an enormous amount of research and disinterested study,” he said. To Co-operate With Administration. Senator Borah, asked if he had tactics of his own in mind, replied that he would co-operate with and await the initiative of the administra- tion, “at least for a while.” “You know, I've been studying this thing for 30 years,” he said, his eyes twinkling. *As I was one of the recal- citrants back in the days when Presi- dent Theodore Roosevelt found there was & difference between a good and a bad trust.” National Charter Plan. Senator Borah’s omn solution for “driving monopoly from control and breaking its grip once for all” is a bill to provide national charters for all corporations engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, and for their regulation by the Federal Trade Com- mission. Senator Borah, here for the special session, which begin; November 15, looks in the pink of condition. Al- though past 72, the “Lone Lion of Idaho” is still a rugged man, with a mane of hair parted in the middle, a heavy face above a conservative bow tle, and a large, loose frame usually clothed in a dark gray or blue suit. The popuplar conception to the cons trary, the Senator does not roar when reporters: “If the law of Maryland won't pro~ Sect my family, black powder will.” Vi AR he goes forth to battle. His voice is gentle, his manners charming, his demeanor a bit shy. /810181 8\i/8\ii78) PICTURES Sets Number 1, 2,3, 4and 5 Now Available C'/4NY one is entitled to one week’s set of Four Pictures in the Art Appreciation campaign of The Star upon payment of only 39c at the Art Counter in the Business Office of The Evening Star. By mail—inclose 46¢c (stamps not acceptable), addressed to the Art Appreciation Counter, The Evening Star. Indicate desired set—No. 1—2—3—4—5 NABMW.coccececccnaecectencmcarancancasemcnncanemsanaaananee TY U PRSI YRS e e i memeeamsceeenecne e e temea s naan e e ———————ans i Age (if student) ...............Yoars. Congress must pass anti-trust legis- | Convicted in “Gossip Slaying,” Girl, 18, Is Freed Under Bond Jessie Pepper, 18 (right), convicted and freed on bond in the “gossip slaying” of her girlicompanion, Mary Elvin Allen, 17, photographed on the Coushatta, La., courthouse lawn with Marie Shaffer, 17, mutual friend of both girls. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. . a cow pasture several miles from here last July 5. The girl's mothers, Mrs. Jessie Pepper and Mrs. H. H. Allen, had quarreled allegedly over gossip that Mary Elvin had gone away to “have & baby.” On the witness stand, Jessie denied she had spread such tales. She testi- | fled she found her mother and Mrs. | Allen struggling in the pasture for | possession of a pistol and that Miss Allen approached her threateningly after she, Ju’ne. seized the gun, HUGE D. C. BUDGET OPPOSED BY KING {Senator Favors Keeping Fig- ure for Next'Year Near $46,000,000. The next District budget should be this year's total of approximately $46,000,000 to avoid placing added tax burdens on the community, Chair- man King of the Senate District Com- mittee declared today on his return to the Capital from Hawail. Senator King announced he would start committee work on any local matters that may be ready during the special session, which convenes next Monday, rather than wait for the regular January session. With this in view, he expects to communicate with District officials this afternoon to see if they have any proposed legislation they think should be taken up immediately. The com- mittee also has a number of bills left over from the last session awaiting conaideration. While Senator King's legislative committee does not handle the budget, it will have charge, along with the House District Committee, of revising the tax program enacted last August, and the scope of this revision will de- pend largely on the amount to be ap- propriated. The budget still is in process of preparation at the Budget Bureau, The 'expression by Chairman King of opposition to any heavy increase in the total of the estimates is in accordance with sentiment recorded Saturday night by the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, which took the position that increased expenditures should be allowed only in the highway and water departments, which are financed separately by water rates and motor taxes. Senator King recalled today that he had opposed the gross receipts busi- ness tax in the District’s new revenue law and believes that If the same amount of tax money is needed next year, Congress should look for some substitute for the gross receipts levy. The Utah Senator said he was not sufficiently familiar with the street car rate situation to pass judgment on the recent increase from four tokens fhr 30 cents to six tokens for 50 cents, but plans to study the subject. MISS MARY HOFFMAN SERVICES TOMORROW University of Maryland Graduate Dies in Hyattsville After Long Iliness. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md.,, Nov. 8.—Miss Mary Virginia Hoffman 26, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. B. Hoffman, 6 Ralston avenue, died Saturday night at the family home after a long ill- ness. i 3 Miss Hoffman, a graduate of the University of Maryland, was employed in the Prince Georges Bank & Trust Co. here before her health failed. Besides her parents, she leaves & sis- ter, Miss Elizabeth Hoffman, and a brother, Candler H. Hoffman, both of Hyattaville, i/ Services for Miss Hoffman will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Firat Methodist Episcopal Church South of Hyattsville. Interment will be in Na- tional Capital tery at < held down as closely as possible to | Memarial Park ml Md. D.C. FAMILY'SKIN MISSING IN CHINA Miss Isabel Hemingway Un- reported in Fierce Shansi Fighting. Unreported in flerce fighting in Shansi Province, where Japanese forces are clashing with Chinese, is Miss Isabel Hemingway, sister of Mrs. Horace W. Truesdell of Silver Spring, and niece of Mrs. Anna Eckels, 701 Shepherd street N.-W. An Associated Press dispatch from Shanghai today listed eight persons as unreported at Taiku, now believed to be behind the Japanese lines in North China. Taiku is about 30 miles from Taiyuanfu, capital of Shansi Prov- ince. Although the dispatch said nine per- sons were unreported, only eight of their names were listed, but the other Is belleved to be Miss Hemingway's mother, Mrs. Mary W. Hemingway. Both were planning on remaining in Taiku, ready to flee into the safety of nearby mountains if fighting came too close. Mrs. Hemingway. Isabel Heminsway. Mrs. Truesdell-sald today that her mother and sister, both of whom are connected with the Oberlin Shansi Mission in Taiku, have visited here often. Both Mrs. Truesdell and her sister were born at Taiku, their parents, the late Dr. Willoughby A. Hemingway and his wife, having been with the mission since 1903. Received Letter September 8. A letter received from her mother on September 8, Mrs. Truesdell said, reported that the fighting was con- stantly coming closer. Many of the residents at the mission had fled, but Mrs, Hemingway and her daughter Isabel elected to remain, planning to flee into nearby mountains if the sit- uation became too dangerous, However, Mrs, Truesdell said that all mail from her mother which went through territory held by Jap- anese was censored. Letters to Peip- ing, now occupied by Japan, were all sent through the censor, she said, but alrmail by way of provinces still heid by Chinese came through as written. Although there are telegraph facili- ties at Taiku, they would be con- trolled by the Japanese military ma- chine if the territory has been occu- pied, Mrs. Truesdell believed. “I realize it is very risky for them to remain,” Mrs. Truesdell said, “but mother says that it would be just as | dangerous for them to attemot a| Journey to the coast. Then, too, she and Isabel hate to leave their work.” Mrs. Hemingway's Sister. Mrs. Eckles is the sister of Mrs. Hemingway. Among ‘others lsted was Dr. L. F. | Wilbur of San Francisco, nephew of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, former Secretary | of the Interior in the Coolidge and | Hoover administrations. His wife and two children were reported with him. Others unreported were P. D. Dut- ton, Auburndale, Mass.; Gladys Wil- liams, Oberlin, Ohio, and Nettie Senger, South English, Iowa. TREMAINE OFFERS NEW TAX PROGRAM Levies on Gross Profits on Sliding | Scale Is Plan of New Yorker. By the Associated Press. A revolutionary program of corpora- tion tax revision, designed to stimulate production and employment, has been suggested to the administration by Morris S. Tremaine, New York State controller. The plan contemplates, in effect, taxing of gross profits, on a sliding scale, the rate declining as inventory turnover increases, with the granting of credits for maintaining stability of employment. Corporations could decrease their taxation rate by increasing production and could gain credits by retaining em- ployes during slack periods. Mr. Tremaine is said to have argued that the plan would tend to lower the cost of manufactured goods and in- crease employment. Mr. Tremaine said the cost of government should be levied as a “first cost of goods” in discussing the plan before the Invest- ment Bankers Association at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., yesterday. Present taxes levied on net profits after sale of the goods, he explained, tend to impair corporation credit and penalize enterprise. ' “Many of the best minds,” he said, believe the capital gains and loss tax, undistributed surplus tax and other levies 'tend to retard industrial recov- ery and “they certainly keep the reser- voirs of credit closed.” TRIO SLIGHTLY HURT IN PLANE MISHAPS Aviation Instructor and Girl Pas- senger Cut and Bruised When Craft Hits Wires. ‘Three persons, including an aviation instructor and his girl passenger, escaped with cuts and bruises in two airplane crashes in nearby Maryland yesterday. . M. C. Bolomon, a flying instructor, and Miss Ethel C. Schaeffer, 18, of Foraatville, Md., received only super- ficial hurts when the plane in which they were attempting to take off from the newly established Suitland Airport stalled, struck overhead wires and crashed into a bank. Observers said Solomon was trying to get the plane back on the fleld when the under- carriage caught in the wires. At Greenbelt, Hubert Routt, 29- year-old insurance adjuster of the 1000 block of L street S.E, escaped with minor cuts and bruises when the plane he was piloting taxied into another at the Greenbelt Airport. He was taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment, but later was home. Julio Fala~ bello, 4912 Third street N.W., a passen- #er'la the“plane, was uninjured. f Fanned by a strong wind, fire destroyed a block of ti in Moscow, Tenn., 38 miles from Memphis. Fire-fighting equipment was summoned he business section and razed four homes rom Mem- phis and nearby Somerville when the flames proved too much for the town’s bucket brigade. Damage was estimated at $100,000, Note merchandise and household goods saved from the blaze. SELF-PROTECTION STABBING DEFENSE Inquest Held in Death of | Brother, Slain in Row Over $5 Loan. Self-defense was brought out in| testimony at a coroner’s inquest to- day as the motive for the fatal stab- bing early Saturday of Harold Wal- den, 28-year-old carpenter, in the quarters of his| brother, Robert Walden, at 1209 N street N.W. Policeman Rob- ert Ashley, sec- ond precinct, said that when he arrived &t the scene after the stabbing, he was told by both Robert Walden and another| brother, Reuben, | that Robert slashed his brother under the left arm with a butcher knife during a fight in which Robert had Harold down on the floor. Officer Ashley testified further that | he was told the fight began when ' Harold returned to Robert’s room | about 3 am. after a previous visit | and pulled his brother from the bed and knocked him down several times. The argument began, the policeman testified, over Robert's refusal to lend Harold $5. Capt. Ira E. Keck, assistant chief of detectives, said earlier that Robert, 40, had admitted killing his younger brother during a fight when the latter came to his basement room and dragged him from his bed after taunting him about his refusal of the | loan. = Robert Walden. Asked $5 Loan. Mrs. Marie Morrison, 1335 Eleventh | street, a close friend of the brothers | and one of those present at a party | said to have preceded the stabbing, said she was told by Reuben Walden | that after the stabbing Harold cried, “Robert has killed me! Get a doctor!” Claimed Self-Defense. Robert, she said, sat down in a chair saying, “I guess I have, but I did it in self-defense. I'll wait here for police. Harold was taken to Emergency Hospital, where he died yesterday. Reuben was spending the night in | Robert’s room the night of the stab- | bing because a young sister, Douglas, who had come to Washington recent- ly from their home at Alta Vista, Va., was staying with his wife, Mrs. Virginia Walden. All the brothers except Robert had come to Washington since August from their home in Alta Vista, Mrs. Morrison said. Robert had been here some time. Both he and Reuben are carpenters and Harold was a house painter. A fourth brother, David, about 23, is employed in a cafeteria. CHIROPODISTS ORGANIZE Four States and D. C. in Tidewater Zone Just Formed. RICHMOND, Nov. 8 (Special).—The Tidewater Zone of the National Asso- ciation of Chiropodists was formed at the annual convention of the Virginia Pedic Society here yesterday. The zone will include Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Dr. G. B. Ostermayer of Washington was elected president, of the new or- ganization. Guest speakers were Drs, Elliott C. Schutz and Waldo Jones of Washing- ton. 2,000,000-Ton War Fleet Claim For Anti-Red Allies Debunked By Cable to The Btar. LONDON, England, Nov. 8.—Con- siderable amusement has been created in British naval circles by the Fascist boast that the three signatories of the anti-Communist pact “can together defend themselves with nearly 2,000,- 000 tons of warships which are being constantly and rapidly increased.” Virginio Gayda, “Il Duce's mouth- piece, who made this statement, seems to have gotten his figures badly balled up. In the first place the three anti- Communist states do not have any- where near 2,000,000 tons of ship, either built or building. In the second | place their combined fleets are not much larger than the fleet of the British Empire alone. They look positively puny compared to the com- bined fleets of France and Britain, and ridiculous compared to the com- bined fleets of PFrance, Britain and the United States. The Fascist powers ‘actually have a total of 1,289,909 tons of overage and underage ships afloat. Additional units FOR CENSUS STAFF | conducted through the Post Office which are building or sppropriated for VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT IN DRIVE ON SYPHILIS Campaign Is Under Way at G. ‘W. U.—Exhibit to Be Held at Student Clubg To lend impetus to George Wash- ington University’s anti-syphilis cam- paign, volunteers were sought among the student body to take Wasserman tests given by senior medical students. Health posters and photographs showing development of the disease were to comprise part of an exhibit to be held at the Student Club. The campaign, which started today, is spansored by the Hatchet, the achool publication; the Ward Bocio- logical Society and the Smith-Russell Honorary Medical Society. BULDING PLANNED Garage at 1701 Kalorama Road Will Be Occupied by Jobless Counters. Plans for the Federal unemployment census have resulted in a number of | Government electricians, carpenters, plumbers and painters being put to ! work renovating the garage at 1701 Kalorama road N.W., which census workers are expected to occupy next ! Monday, it was learned today. Officials said the number of persons | to be engaged in census work here will be determined by the number of re- turns made through the Post Office Department. The Census Bureau of the Commerce Department will employ those needed here from the Civil Serv- ice registers. 1,200 May Get Work. If returns are received in sufficient quantities officials said as many as 1,200 will be put to work in Wash- ington. Cards not properly filled out will be distributed again by the cen- | tral post offices in various sections of the Nation, The unemployment census will be Department beginning a week from tomorrow and lasting through No- vember 20. It will cover the entire United States, Hawaii and Alaska. It may be two weeks after completion of the census before all returns are received. Office Space Signed. Clay J. Guthridge, chief of the Di- vision of Government Space Control, Buildings Branch, National Park Service, signed up for the use of the second and third floors, containing a total of 38,000 square feet, at 1701 Kalorama road. The lease was made for John D. Biggers, unemployment census admin- istrator, who will continue to have his office in the Commerce Depart- ment, officials said today. The authorities expect to have the coding, editing and tabulating groups of the OCensus organization in the Kalorama road building. The Census Bureau will actually do the work for Mr. Biggers, it was explained. Charles A. Peters, jr, assistant director of the National Park Service in charge of buildings, is supervising the reno- vation job. General Electric to Entertain. Eight hundred dealers and custom- ers of the General Electric Supply Corp. will be entertained at the Earle Theater tonight in honor of General | g Electric's “Hour of Charm” radio or- chestra, conducted by Phil Spitainy, | making a personal appearance at the theater this week. They are to be guests of the corporation. will, after many months,sbring the totai up to 1,779,163 tons. Up to July 1 Japan had 745,694 tons actually built and 79,272 tons building or appropri- ated for, Italy 396,683 tons built and 147,600 tons building, Germany 147, 832 tons built and 262,482 tons build- ing. Britain alone had 1,216,398 tons afloat and 541,000 tons building or appropriated for—a total of 1,757,588 tons. Britain and France together had 1,685,744 tons afloat and 2,401,077 tons including those building—roughly 700,000 tons more than the three anti- Communist states had afloat, bullding 0'1‘ and appropriated for. If the United States be included, the three democratic countries had 3,769,- 074 tons actually afloat and a grand total of 3,819,972 tons including those building and appropriated for. Group- ed together, the three democratic coun- tries have 2,000,000 tons more ships afloat, building and appropriated for than Japan, Italy and German taken —A. P. Photo. MAGAZINE T0 AID NEEDY CHILDREN 12,000 Subscribers Will Be Sought to Help Put Over Program. Twelve thousand subscriptions to a children’s magazine will be sought in a drive beginning this week that is hoped will put the program for needy school children on a perma- nent basis. Mrs. John Boyle, jr.. chairman of the Citizens' Permanent Committee on the Feeding and Clothing of Needy Children, outlining the detailed pub- lication plans today, expressed the be- lief the magazine would fill a definite void among the children of the city. “It will contain articles on athletics by outstanding sports writers, reports of school activities and articles on child psychology and hygiene,” she pointed out. Money Goes to Fund. All the money to be raised by the vearly subscriptions, which will cost $1.25, will go to the fund, she said, and the magazine will be published by a non-profit organization. A contest among the children to se- lect & name for the publication is planned, prize money totaling $50 hav- ing been donated by the Southern Dairies. The first issue will come out without a name, she said. Essay Prizes. Each month, prizes totaling $50 will be given to children writing the best essays on subjects selected after con- ferences with school officials to select topics that will be of interest as well as educational. This money will be donated by the Chevy Chase Chestnut Farms, Mrs. Boyle said. If the plan is successful, a perma- nent fund will be established by the assured subscription money, Mrs. Boyle pointed out. She also stressed the fact that that all money taken in over and above the operating expenses | of the magazine will be turned over to the fund. MILTON R. TRENAM, 54, FEDERAL ENGINEER, DIES Served in Irrigation Division of Bureau of Indian Affairs. Milton Roswell Trenam, 54, a civil engineer of the Irrigation Division, Bureau of Indian Affairs, died yester- day at his residence in the Cavalier Hotel after a short iliness. Mr. Trenam had been with the bu- reau office here since May, after serv- ing in Los Angeles, Calif. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Flora L. Trenam: a daughter, Miss Ruth Trenam, this city; a son, Milton E. Trenam, Denver, Colo.: two brothers, Edwin D. Trenam, Petaluma, Calif, and Erwin W. Trenam, Denver; two sisters, Mrs. Leila Retallic, Petaluma, and Mrs, May Oldfleld, Turlock, Calif., and one grandchild. Funeral arrangements were to be completed today after the arrival of the son, who is flying from Denver. —_— Pimlico— FIRST RACE—The Severn: purse, $1.- SRt Her 1 FaTetr; ool furiane Sir Golden (C. Kurtsinger) Briae Plume (R Eccard) ime, Also’ ran—: Gold Satin. Cbunt Valiant. Miss maraderfe. Biue Pre- lude, Little Tramp, We: Jen. SECOND RACE—Purse. $1.000: clal ng: the Delinguent; for 3-vear-old maid- miles. Pirate (A. Clutter) 7.40 4.10 2. (€. Kurtsinger) 330 2.30 irearo) 290 26.20 12.50 6. —Flying Zelma. Clean Heels, ret Chatter, Spotiess, Nadeen, Elsie J. (Daily Double paid $96.20. RACE—Purse. $1.000; HIRD, the Ar- lington: for 2-year-oid filll : @ furlon ourt Dance (W. Wright) 3.60 ~ 2.80 Eves Shadon (Kertsinger) 4.10 370 X Breath (E. Acarro) Also_ran—Le . Goodepeed, Polyats, Hatel Nut. Devil's Mate. —_ Rockingham— By the Associated Press. 1800: elaiming: .40 3.90 3.60 2.80 690 Clarksdale. Whit- n—Dundrum, . Play Line, Balkanese, 50 Jolly, Morls Paula, Fo; SECOND RACE—Purse, $800: claiming; 3-year-olds and up: 6 furlongs. estview (Meloche) 14.10° 7.20 4. fackfull (McCoy) 1190 War Glow (Krovits) T 1:124. ‘)llle (Romaine) Duffy) Ao Garels. Rassle Danle. Zac Xum, Harry Go Tansoriar and (Daily Double paid $77.) FOURTH RACE—Purse, $800; claiming; » 6 furlengs. faFon aleloche © 1050%270 840 (Napler) LE cheih) S+ together. ) - (Copyright, 1937.) e_Danny. High Treas ‘Seureel. High Folish, Grand WALLAGE REPEATS PLEA FOR GRANARY Adequate Corn Reserve for Use in Years of Scarcity Urged in Talk. By the Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 8. —Establish- ment of an ever-normal granary—an adequate reserve of corn to be set aside in years of plenty to be drawn on in periods of scarcity—was advocated again today by Henry A. Wallace, Sec- retary of Agriculture, as the answer to corn belt droughts which disturb the Nation's economic stability. Wallace, in a prepared address on a national radio network outlined his corn crop producing and marketing proposals to farmers and their repre- sentatives from Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and Indiana. The Secretary of Agriculture empha- sized that the problem of corn produc-~ tion and marketing was closely linked to livestock raising, chiefly hogs, and soil conservation in protecting the corn belt in years to come Recalls Previous Efforts. Recalling previous governmental efforts at corn crop control, Wallace asserted, “any one who faces the facts with an open mind must come to these conclusions “First, that, that as things are today, it is unfair to subject farmers alone to unlimited competition; second, that there is no magic way of reopening quickly our big export markets; and third, that corn belt farmers cannot afford to rely on chemistry for a quick solution of their problems “All of which,” he said, “leads tn this fourth conclusion. The best way now open to deal with the corn prob- lem is through co-operation of farm- ers in a program that will iron out the | cvcles of glut and scarcity; create an ever-normal granary giving farmers and consumers better protection against food and feed shortages due to drought; stop the ruthless destruc- tion of soil which has resulted from cut-throat competition among farm- ers; and safeguard agriculture, busi- ness and labor against the disaster of | & farm price collapse. Says U. S. Aid Necessary. | “To do these things" Wallace con- tinued, “farmers must have the help of their Government. Social action to accomplish them is fully justified because such a program is vital to the | public welfare.” Wallace asserted present falling | prices have hurt farmers, “because hogs now being sold were fed on dollar | corn.” “The extremely high level of the last (few month: was due mostly to the | great drought of 1936 coming on the heels of the "34 drought,” Wallace said. ““This level could not be maintained, especially with business slackening and consumer buying power weakening. Even before the good corn crop of | this year has had an opportunity to | affect hog supplies, the price has gone | down materially and is already below | parity. | Hog Price Slump Danger, “If this year's good corn crop should be followed by crops as large or larger than this one, and if there should be a further decline of consumer pur- chasing power, farmers easily couid be faced again with the calamity of $3 hogs. “The only way to guard against the disaster of drought years,” Wal- lace said, “is to provide for carrying more grain over from the good years | to the bad. The fact that we usually have had only 170,000,000 bushels carried over is a serious reflection on the economic setup in the corn oelt and the Nation.” Wallace estimated an annual carry- over of about 350,000,000 bushels would be necessary to establish an ever normal granary “that should work like a reservoir.” The Secretary proposed a referndum in the corn producing States to de- termine the desire for a surplus corn- sealing program. The conference was called by Gov. M. Clifford Townsend of Indiana to sound out opinions of Midwestern farmers and businessmen on proposed legislation to be laid before Congress at its forthcoming special session. Governors of three other States— Nelson G. Kraschel of Towa, Lloyd C. Stark of Missouri and William Langer of North Dakota—accepted invitations to attend. ‘MUM’ SHOW DRAWS 16,668 VISITORS Record Day's Attendance Brings Total to 26,654 Growers to See New Types. were 16,668 visitors at the “mum” show yesterday, making a total of 26,654 thus far this season. This is the largest single day's tofal | during the entire 36 years the show | There 'y.20 | has been held by the Department of Agriculture. The largest previougly was in 1926, when the attendance was 14,209. All day, long lines of people | waiting to get into the exhibition | greenhouse formed along Constitution avenue. J. Wise Byrnes, superin- tendent of the greenhouses, had to call on the police for assistance in handling the crowd. This week the attendance will con- sist largely of students from the col- leges and academies in this vicinity, and public and parochial school chil- dren. Large groups from at least six schools are expected each day at the show. Garden clubs from more than 30 cities and towns in Maryland and 24 communities in Virginia are sched- uled to visit the exhibition the first three days this week. More than a score of the largest commercial growers of chrysanthe- mums east of the Mississippi River have already viewed the new asded- lings which the Department of Agri- culture is displaying, and a con- ference is to be held next Wednesday to select the best varieties. In the attenddnce yesterday were more than 50 members of Congress and their wives, including most of the members of the House Agricultgre Committee, which has supervision over the department’s activities, Some of these discussed the advisability of advocating the use of W. P. A, fudgds to provide more adequate exhibitton houses. . Community Fair Tomorrow. WOODFIELD, Md., Nov. 8 (Specigl). —Final plans have been made for opening at 7:30 p.m. tomogrow of Woodfleld Community Fair, sponsored by the Woodfleld Grange. Exhitts, for which prizes will be awarded, mst be in by 1 pm. tomorrow. .