Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1937, Page 3

CANADA REMAINS WHEAT CHAMPION Gordon Gibson of Ladner, B. C., Is Victor With Re- ward Variety. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—Gordon Gib- 80 of Ladner, British Columbia, re- tained the wheat champlonship of the world for Canada today with reward variety at the International Live Stock 8how. Gibson’s sample weighed 65.2 pounds to the bushel. It was hard red spring wheat. L. E. Peterson, Vicl Mont., won the reserve championsiiip with a sam- ple of hard red winter wheat known as Montana No. 36, repeating his per- formance of last year when he was runner-up to Wheat King Herman Trelle, Wembley, Alberta. Peterson’s sample was heavier wheat than that of Gibson. It weighed 66.3 pounds to the bushel. Trelle, five times wheat king, showed & sample of marquis variety this year, deserting the reward variety with whicl. he had won previously, in order to pay tribute to the late Sir Charles Saunders, famed Canadian cerealist, who developed the marquis variety. The reward variety is widely grown in Canada and was developed at the Canadian government experimental station at Ottawa. Considerable interest was manifest fn the approaching choice of a beef baron to wear the crown that went to Cklahoma A. and M. College’s Angus steer last year. Eight finalists will tramp the ring, probably tomorrow, when Alexander Ritchie, manager of the Royal Farms at Windsor, England, will select the finest steer in the Nation. Eligible for final judging will be the junior grand champion Hereford steer owned by Homer Graber, 18, of Mineral Point, Wis., who won out Saturday. Judges faced work in earnest today | after two days of only moderate ac- tivity. All live stock judging was sus- pended yesterday. The grain judges worked throughout the Sabbath, however, and found an oats king—Alex M. Stuart of Ailsa Craig, Ontario. It was the tenth time in 18 tries that Canada took the oats title. Young America kept much of the spotiight the first two days of the thirty-eighth exposition. Boy and girl 4-H Club members throughout the Nation received awards for leadership and skill in domestic sciences. Kansas State College won the title for the best team of collegiate liv. stock Judges. Chest (Continued From First Page.) practically a miracle to enable the| Chest to reach its goal by tomorrow | noon.” The rero-hour battle to save the eampaign from failure was directed primarily to those people who make from $5,000 to $10.000 a year and con- sider they have done their duty by giving $10 or $25 to the Chest. This type of subscriber was being resolic- ited Other sources of additional funds| were not overlooked by the zealous Chest workers. They remained busy yesterday and their efforts were sup- ported by appeals from church pul- pits. Continued apparent apathy toward the Community Chest will mean that “sick people will continue to suffer, orphans will be refused admittance to institutions and old people will have to take their chances on the bounty of relatives,” Herbert L. Willett, Jr,, Chest director, said in declaring that the fate of the campaign rests squarely with the people of Wash- ington. “Families will be broken up be- cause the family service agencies can- not give them proper care,” he con- tinued, “boys and girls will be left out on the street corners to drift into possible delinquency because the settlements are carrying a full load; sick people will not be able to get treatment—and all of these things will affect all of Washington because, after all, a rotten spot in an apple eventually affects the whole apple. “It is squarely up to Washington to decide whether these conditions are to exist or whether they are to be prevented by the subscription of the entire goal sought by the Community Chest.” Additional gifts announced today include Mrs. Henry Leonard, $100; Mrs. Frances T. Shiras, $100, and Mrs, Charles L. McCawley, a second addi- tional contribution of $200. These were turned in by Richard W. Hynson, chairman of the campaign Special Assignments Unit. N MRS. JOHNSON DIES Mrs. Blanche O. Johnson, 62, of 1217 Massachusetts avenue N.W. died Saturday in Sibley Hospital after a short illness. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 pm. tomorrow in Chambers’ funeral home, 1400 Chapin street N.W. Burlal will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. _A native of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Mrs. Johnzon had been a resident of this city for the last six years. She is survived by a son, Taylor O. Johnson, with whom she made her home here, and a sister, Mrs, Olin V. Stark, Nich- olson, Pa, WILLI LOMAT] Eleven men suffered critical burns yesterday in the explosion of this huge gas well at Sisson- ville, W. Va. Flames, fed by 10,000,000 cubic feet of gas, are shown as they shot nearly three- Jourths of the way up the 87-foot derrick. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Housing __ (Continued From First Page) ciation would be authorized to sell debentures to the extent of 20 times its capital, thus giving it a fund of $1,000,000,000, and to make direct loans on large projects when private funds are not available. When such a loan has been made the association could sell debentures secured by the mortgage. This assosiation, it was said, is intended to syphon money from sections of the country where capital is plentiful to other sections where building projects are needed but capital is lacking. 6. Revise the section of the act per- mitting loans up to $10,000 for repairs and modernization. Such loans, for example, would be available for in- stallation of a new furnace, but not for the purchase of an electric re- frigerator. They will be available to commercial and industrial concerns as well as to private home owners. The President also asked Congress to make the limitation of $2,000,000,- 000 on the amount of mortgages in- surable applicable to the amount of insurance to be outstanding at any time. Under the present act, this limi- tation extends to July 1, 1939, no provision being made for the period after that date. Discussing the message with re- porters, Federal Reserve Governor Marriner S. Eccles;, who headed a committee that studied the housing problem, said the program did not involve the expenditure of any new Government money but was intended only as a backing of private capital. Mr. Eccles warned against expecting results immediately after the legisla- tion is enacted. *“The most that can be hoped for,” he said, “is to lay the basis for the planning of operations in the spring.” The proposal to cut the down pay- ments on small homes to 10 per cent, Mr. Eccles asserted, had been ques- tioned by some private financing agencies that said the cost of fore- closure and the delay involved would make it dangerous for them to finance small houses even with an insured loan. The costs of foreclosure on small homes must be borne by the private lending agencies, and, according to Mr. Eccles, the expense ranges from a high of $350 in some States to a low of $30 in Massachusetts. The time necessary to put through a fore- closure runs from two months in Massachusetts to a maximum of 18 months in some other States. Mr. Eccles said an effort would be made to get all the States to reduce the costs and speed up the machinery of foreclosures. Action May Come Soon. The recommendations may be acted on during the special session, leaders said, thereby getting precedence over 2 bill to modify business taxes. The latter, advocated both in and out of Congress, as & method of helping corporate business, is not expected to be ready before January 15. John Hamilton, Republican national chairman, criticized the undistributed profits and capital gains levies last night in a radio discussion of the eco- nomic situation. He also advocated AMS C OIL BURNER There’s no mystery to the leadership of the WILLIAMS OIL-O- MATIC OIL BURNER, especially when you use reliable Colonial Fuel Look Usp Colonial Dealers in_the Yellow Section of Your Telephone Book. 1709 De Sales St. N.W. 1814 v repeal or amendment of the labor relations and securities laws. “We are today faced with a major | business recession which can easily assume critical proportions,” Hamilton | said, “if proper measures to check it | are not taken. “In the face of presidential gropings it is the duty of the Congress in this emergency to act—and to act imme- diately.” The cumulative effect of New Deal legislation, he declared, “has been to handcuff, to shackle, to hog-tie the legitimate activities of the business of the Nation.” It is right and proper for the Presi- dent to confer with business men, he said, but declared industrial leaders | “feel that limits to effective co-oper- ation have been set by the reckless and heedless policies of the New Deal.” Mr. Roosevelt discussed his housing campaign with a group of industrial leaders and also has been conferring with utilities executives on methods of stimulating construction in that fleld. Additional co-operation of business leaders with the administration eco- nomic program was regarded as a pos- sible result of a meeting in Chicago Wednesday and Thursday of the Com- merce Department’s Business Advisory Council. Harriman Statement. W. A. Harriman, chairman of the council, said: “We are today in s period when mutual understanding of Government policy and industrial problems, with appropriate adjustment of one to the other, is of vital importance to our national welfare.” The council, an organization of about 40 business and industrial execu- tives, makes recommendations to the administration on policies affecting business. 5 Closely linked with the administra- tion's business program is Mr. Roose- | velt's announced desire to balance next year’s budget. | He will send to Congress tomorrow & message asking that annual appro- priations for Federal aid in road building be substantially reduced. Un- official estimates have indicated about $160,000,000 could be cut from the annual budget total if the highway appropriation were curtailed to the pre-depression level of $80,000,000 to $90,000,000. This year's appropriation was $253,000,000. Meanwhile, the administration, em- Phasizing the curtailment of emer- gency spending, turned to normal channels of releasing Government funds as a means of increasing the flow of money in trade. Officials estimated that at least $245,- 000,000 could be put into circulation almost immediately by bunching Gov- ernment orders for supplies at this time instead of spreading them over U. S. Determined To Export Teeth As Well as Food By the Associated Press. The United States is determined not | only to sell more food abroad but also teeth with which to eat it. ‘This country’s proposed trade agree- ment with Great Britain, initial steps | for which were announced recently by | Secretary of State Cordell Hull, calls for the exportation of more than 40,- 000,000 molars and incisors to that country, & figure topped in 1936 when the United States collected $1,102,000 for supplying dental repairs to British subjects. The teeth are exported individually and not in sets, statistics at the Com- merce Department show, the British dentists preferring to make up the | plates to suit their clients. ‘The 1936 figures show that the 40,- 000,000 American-made teeth were dis- tributed among 4.000.000 Britons, a twelfth of the British Isles population. This export item is listed in the trade agreement under “scientific instru- ments.” + LAWYERS’ BRIEFS COMMERCIAL PRINTING ADVERTISING SERVICE BYRON S. 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Pelley, president of the Asso- ciation of American Railroads, told the Interstate Commerce Commission to- day: “The financial condition of the railroads of the United States is probably worse today than at any time in their history.” Pelley appeared before the commis- sion as the first to speak in support of a petition by the roads for a 15 per cent increase in freight rates. Such an increase, plus limited passenger fare increases on Eastern lines, would boost anual revenues an estimated $517,- 000,000. The railroads, Pelley declared, are “completing their seventh consecutive lean year.” 96 in Receivers’ Hands. “Ninety-six railroads,” he said, “are in the hands of receivers or trustees, 36 of them Class 1 railroads operat- ing 70,000 miles. Other systems are threatened with bankruptcy. “The cause of the present financial distress is jncreased operating costs, over which the railroads have little or no control, and decreased earnings per ton-mile and per passenger mile. “Since May 1, 1935, which may be regarded as about the bottom of the depression, prices of things we use have increased 40 per cent. Our taxes have increased 25 per cent, our wages have increased 18 per cent. Revenues Decrease, “During the same period revenues for carrying a ton of freight one mile | have decreased 10 per cent, and reve- nues for transporting a passenger one mile have decreased 20 per cent.” The administration may have to resume Reconstruction Finance Corp. loans to raiiroads, a Pederal official | said today, unless their earnings im- prove, Whether such action finally is taken, he said, will depend to a large extent on the outcome, of the rail- roads’ demand for increase in freight rates plus higher passenger coach fares on Eastern lines. The last rail rate increase was granted October 22. Limited to some heavy commodities, it was estimated to produce added operating income of $47,500,000 & year. The outcome of the rate case, the finally determine resumption of loans. even if the increase was granted, it might not offset rising costs entirely. On direction of President Roosevelt the R. F. C. stopped making new loans September 30. Unaffected by the cur- Government official said, may not | Emphasizing that the problem is still | only in the study stage, he said that | EMBER 29, 1937 1 BADLY BURNED INGAS WELL BLAST All Injured in West Virginia Explosion Expected to Recover, However. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va,, Nov. 29.— Eleven men, critically burned when a gas well explosion made torches of their clothing, rested in a Charleston hospital today, where physiciaas said they probably would recover. The explosion came yesterday at the | United Fuel & Gas Co.s well in the heart of the Kanawha Valley gas fleld at Sissonville while a dozen workmen were busy removing tools. The well came in 72 hours ago at| 10,000.000 feet a day. Frank Kingry, a driller and the only workman to escape the flames, said he had noticed gas in'the engine house “and warned them not to start the engine because there might be an explosion.” “A little later I heard the engine atart,” he continued, and flames shot | far up the 87-foot derrick, lighting | the countryside for hours. Kingry aided two men to extinguish their burning clothing, and the others beat out the fire themselves ILLUSTRATED TALK Earl A. Trager, chief of the Natu-| ralist Division of the National Park Service, will give an illustrated lecture on “The Glories of Our National Parks” at 8 p.m tomorrow in the as- sembly room of the Chevy Chase Pres- byterian Church. 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