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HOUSETO TAKE UP
TARIFFNEXT WEEK
Reciprocal Measure, With
Amendments, Is Indorsed
by Committee.
By the Associated Press.
The reciprocal tariff bill, carrying
With It an indorsement of the House
Ways and Means Committee, is ex
pected to come up for consideration
In the House next Wednesday. The
measure carries several amendments
voted by the committee, which split
strictly along party lines in reporting
it yesterday. The vote was 15, all
Democrats, In favor and 10, all Re
publicans. against.
The bill authorizes the President to
negotiate reciprocal trade treaties with
foreign countries without ratification
of the pacts by the Senate. The Chief
Executive is empowered to raise or
lower existing tariff rates 50 per cent.
Under an amendment adopted, he
may promise foreign countires that
during the life of the treaties they
enter with the United States articles
on the free list will not be removed
and duties on articles on the dutiable
list shall not be increased. It does
not give power to the Executive to re
move articles from the free list, leav
ing that to Congress.
Another amendment provides that
the existing flexible tariff provisions of
the 1930 act shall remain in force on
all articles not affected by trade pacts.
Under the original bill as submitted
by the State Department to Chairman
Doughton, the flexible provisions, per
mitting the President to raise or lower
rates 50 per cent upon the recommen
dation of the Tariff Commission,
would have been repealed.
Ur manned by Industries.
This change was demanded by rep
resentatives of industrial sections be
cause it permits the filing of com
plaints by domestic producers with
the commission and hearings on pro
posals to increase as well as to lower
rates.
Two other revisions, to maintain the
existing preferential treatment of
Cuba, were made. One provides
nothing in the measure may be con
strued as preventing the United States
from continuing exclusive preferential
treatment to "articles, the growth,
produce or manufacture of the Repub
lic of Cuba ”
The other maintains the present
status on the law governing the mill
ing in bond of Canadian hard Spring
wheat by Buffalo millers for export
to Cuba. Under the original proposal
Southwestern millers claimed the
measure would result in a discrimi
nation against American hard Winter
wheat in the Cuban trade. Canadian
wheat milled in the United States
and shipped to Cuba must continue
to pay the existing differential.
An amendment by Representative
McCormack. Democrat, of Massachu
setts, to the policy enunciated in the
measure was adopted to provide that
besides expanding foreign markets and
overcoming domestic unemployment,
its purpose Is to restore the American
standard of living.
Treaty Discussions Set Aside.
Until Congress acts, the State De
partment is informing all foreign na
tions that no new commercial treaty
negotiations can be discussed.
Secretary of State Hull said yester
day a number of foreign nations have
made overtures to the State Depart
ment concerning possible new com
mercial treaties, but that none of the
informal conversations have passed
the initial stage.
Negotiations of commercial agree
ments with Brazil. Argentina, Portu
gal and Sweden which were already
under way. have been held up until
definite action has been taken by Con
gress.
Germany—which according to press
dispatches from Berlin has made over
tures for the negotiation of a trade
pact—is only one of the nations which
have approached the United States,
asking for information as to when
such treaty discussions might be un
dertaken.
Canada is also Included among the
nations which have made informal
overtures.
“HE CARETH FOR YOU”
Topic of Sermon. Announced for
Trinity Lutheran Church.
At Trinity Lutheran Church to
morrow morning Re". H. M. Hen
nig’s sermon topic for the German
service is, “He Careth for You.” In
the English service at 11 a m. the
children of the confirmation class will
render an account of their faith. On
Palm Sunday the class will be con
firmed. Monday, 8 p.m., the Men’s
Club will meet at Trinity Church.
Wednesday. 8 p.m.. German Lenten
service; Thursday. 8 p.m., English.
Sponsored by Trinity Church, a
Lenten organ recital will be given
Tuesday, at 8:15 p.m., at the Na
tional Christian Church on Thomas
Circle by Edward Rechlin of New
York. America's foremost Bach In
terpreter. The public Is invited.
ANNOUNCES TOPICS
McKendree M. E. Pastor to Speak
Morning and Evening.
"The Testimony of John the Baptist
Concerning Christ” will be the sub
ject of Rev. William Pierpont tomor
row morning at the McKendree Meth
odist Episcopal Church. Eddie and
Ernie of the National Broadcasting
Co. will sing selected old hymns. At
8 p.m. the pastor will speak on “Seek
ing Heavenly Things.”
The Phllathea Class will hold Its
monthly meeting Tuesday evening at
the home of Mrs. Charles A. Sutton,
Clarendon, Va.
Special Palm Sunday sendee, with
appropriate music, will be followed
by an observance of Holy week, with
service each evening.
REVIVAL SERVICES
Rev. C. N. Williams Plans Pro
gram at H Street Church.
A two-week revival, preceeding
Easter, will be held at the H Street
Christian Church, under the direc
tion of Rev. C. N. Williams. Miss
Ruth Fisher will assist Mrs. Emily
G. Dickenson, the organist. H. A.
Magnerson will direct the song serv
ice and Mrs. Edith Jones will be
the soloist. The services beginning
tomorrow will be held every night,
except Saturday.
The sermon topic tomorrow morn
ing Is “Staking His Cause” and in
the evening "Life’s Most Vital Rela
tions.”
Store Salvages Profit
STAFFORD SPRINGS. Conn. (JP).—
Paul Joseph Brizard, 29, pleaded guilty
in court to the theft of $37.33 from a
grocery store and then told the court
he had spent some of the money In
the same store. He was bound over
to tiu. Superior Court,
EMIL Hl’RJ A.
AS AM FARLEY
Interior Department Worker
Is Transferred to Na
tional Committee.
Emil Edward Hurja, who has been
viewed in political circles as a mem
ber of the corps placed by Postmaster
General Farley throughout the Gov
ernment to supervise patronage dis
tribution, resigned yesterday as ad
ministrative assistant to Secretary of
Interior Ickes to become an aid to
Farley in the latter's capacity as
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee. Hurja will assume his
new duties April 1.
Before going to the Interior De
partment last August, Hurja had been
at the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration. When he shifted over and
reports were current that he would
hand out the jobs under the huge P.
W. A. program directed by Ickes, the
Secretary let it be known that he had
been and would continue to be his
own personnel officer, and indicated
that politics would have no place in
his scheme of things.
Farley May Stay.
In view of Farley's close friendship !
for Hurja, the move which brings the
latter to the National Committee is
interpreted in some quarters as mean
ing that Farley Is not preparing to
get out of the national chairmanship
very soon, despite the fact that a suc
cessor is being sought in line with
President Roosevelt's views that party
posts and official position don't mix.
Hurja also is expected to take over
some of the detailed patronage work
which has kept the Postmaster Gen
eral swamped for the past year. His
appointment Is the second to a key
place in the National Committee in
the past few days, following that of
Walter J. Cummings, Chicago banker,
as treasurer.
Aided in Campaign.
Hurja was appointed from Crystal
Falls. Mich. During the last presi
dential campaign, he served as analyst
for the National Committee and In
that capacity made a study of prob
able voting returns.
At the Public Works Administra
tion, it was said, there would be no
appointment to fill the vacancy caused
by Hurja's resignation.
Secretary Ickes in a letter to Hurja
last night said he accepted the resig
nation “with regret,” and that “I un
derstand why the Democratic Na
tional Committee should want to avail
itself of your services with an im
portant campaign approaching.”
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RINGINTYRE CLASS
INVITES VISITORS
Bible Class Meets at St. Paul's
M. E. Church—Pastor to
Preach Tomorrow.
At St. Paul's M. E. Church South. |
Thirteenth and Crittenden streets, to- I
morrow at 11 a m., the pastor, Rev. i
W. W. McIntyre, will preach on j
"Bringing Heaven to Earth," and at 8
p.m. on "Mr. Ingersoll Asks a Ques
tion.”
The Ringintyre Men's Bible Class
invites men to their meeting at 10 a.m.
At 7:15 p.m. the meeting of the young
people’s division will be led by Miss
Mary Frances Nelson, and at the same
hour the Wesley Fellowship will meet
under the leadership of Wendell
Eaves.
The Women's Missionary Society
will give a dinner at the church Wed
nesday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
In preparation for the coming re
vival services, entire next week Is to
be observed as a week of prayer. Spe
cial prayer services will be held at the
church Tuesday, Thursday and Friday j
nights. At the Tuesday night service
the speaker will be Rev. E. C. Beery
of Francis Asbury Church South; the
Thursday night meeting will be con
ducted by Rev. J. Howard Wells, pre
siding elder of the Washington dis
trict, and Friday night Rev. D. M.
Brown of Man-in M. E. Church South
will speak.
A series of revival services will be
conducted at the church beginning
March 25 and continuing until April
15. The evangelist will be W. Carey
Barker of Lynchburg, Va. J. Nelson
Anderson of Washington will be In
charge of the music.
PASTOR’S ORDINATION
WILL BE OBSERVED
Petworth Baptists to Honor Eev.
H. J. Smith—Service
for Men.
The 25th ordination anniversary to
the ministry of Rev. Henry J. Smith, ,
pastor of Petworth Baptist Church,
will be observed tomorrow.
The pastor will speak on the text
that was used by Rev. Arthur Cady
of Cobbleskill, N. Y., on the occasion
of his ordination service, which was
held In the First Baptist Church of
Gilbertsvllle, N. Y., before Mr. Smith
finished college, and while he was
a student pastor of the church. The
text is “All Things Are Yours."
A Baptist men’s day service will
be held in the morning. A Joint ban
quet of the Philathea and Men's Bi
ble classes will be held Tuesday at
the church when Representative D.
D. -Glover of Arkansas will be the
speaker.
GOODYEAR-SEARS
STQCKDEALBARED
Mail Order Company Head
Tells of Contract for
Tire Supply.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 17.—The pay
ment of 50,000 shares of Goodyear
stock by the Goodyear Tire & RubDer
Co. to Sears, Roebuck & Co. in ex
change for a 10-year non-cenceliable
contract for the rubber company to
furnish tires for the mail-order com
pany was suggested by Gen. Robert
E. Wood, president of Sesrs. he tes
tified yesterday at a Federal Trade
Commission hearing.
Gen. Wood, in his first appearance
at the inquiry into charges of Clay
ton act violations by the Goodyear
company, said that in 1931 ne had
told P. W. Litchfield, president of the
rubber concern, that unless his com
pany was given better terms it would
be necessary to cancel the contract.
He said Sears was getting its tire
supply for cost plus 6!2 per cent. Gen.
Wood said he asked that the price be
cut to cost plus 4 per cent or that i
the Goodyear Co. give to his company
the 50,000 shares of stock. Litchfield
agreed to the latter, he asserted.
It was brought out that tty other
large manufacturer which had ap
proached Sears was the United States i
Rubber Co.
A letter from the manager of Sears’
tire department to the manager of
two St. Louis Sears stores was intro
duced during the questioning of C. L.
Schenek, the only other witness of
the day. It referred to a gain in
the stores’ tire sales in 1933 and con
cluded, "you licked the tire war
locally."
The Government charges that tire
price wars were initiated by Sears.
The hearing will be resumed Mon
day morning at St. Paul.
RICHMOND MINISTER
AT NATIONAL CITY
Rev. H. 0. Haney to Preach.
Dr. R. H. Miller in
Kansas City.
Rev. H G. Haney, pastor of the
Battery Park Christian Church, Rich
mond. Va., will be the guest preacher
tomorrow at the National City Chris
tian Church in the absence of Dr.
Raphael H. Miller, the pastor.
Dr. Miller has gone to Kansas City
to attend the funeral of R. A. Long,
one of the prominent laymen of the
Christian Church.
Following the Thursday night sup
per conference at the Vermont Avenue
Building, Dr. Miller will conduct a
pilgrimage to the holy places of
Palestine, using stereopticon slides.
Those who do not come for the din
ner are invited to the lecture at 7:30
o'clock, which is free.
The Business Women’s Guild will
meet at 5:30 o’clock Tuesday at the
Vermont Avenue Building. Circle No.
5 will meet at noon Wednesday at
the home of Mrs. H. T. Hills. 221 B
street northeast. Mrs. I. Pendery and
Mrs. Brook Haines are assisting
hostesses.
ANNUAL BANQUET
. .. .
Adult Classes of Petworth Bap
tist Meet Tuesday.
The annual banquet of the two adult
classes of Petworth Baptist Church
will be held Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.:
Representative D. D Glover of Ar
kansas will be the principal speaker.
Dinner music will be rendered by the
Vaughn Class Orchestra. Miss Anna
Mae McGowan will give a reading.
Musical numbers will be rendered by
the Virginians Male Quartet. James
G. Yaden, teacher of the men’s class,
and Mrs. Marietta Smith, teacher of
the ladies' class, will hold a recep
tion to the guests at 6:30, and ban
quet will be served by Collier’s Inn
at 7 p.m
E. B. Shaver, teacher of the Met
ropolitan Baptist men’s class, with
Mrs. Shaver. Rev. C. E. Hawthorne
and wile, Mr. and Mrs. Charles I.
Stengle and E. C. Steagall will be
among the guests.
Rev. Henry J. Smith, pastor, will
preach tomorrow.
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10 A|KEN_RACES
Best Timber Horses of
Country to Race on
Hitchcock Estate.
By a Stall Correspondent of The Star.
AIKEN. S. C, March 17.—One more
gala event will be added to the an
nual calendar of American steeple
chase enthusiasts today when the
Aiken Steeplechase Association in
augurates its first official meeting on
the estate of Thomas Hitchcock here.
Spread over the smooth and sandy
acres owned by the famous polo star,
the Aiken course will provide the first
major test this year for the best
horses and amateur jockeys in the
country.
Between 4,000 and 5 000 residents
of the fashionable Winter colonies at
Camden, Southern Pines, Augusta and
this resplendent village will be on
hand to watch the trials.
A mere six weeks ago the ball
started rolling to build up into today’s
meeting. Adding to impetus supplied
by s. A. Warner Baltazzi, a group of
resident sportsmen plotted the event
as a preliminary to Camden’s well
established annual Carolina Cup con
tests. scheduled one week from today.
Despite handicaps of time and the
rough weather which has eliminated
all Virginia and Maryland trained
horses from the entry lists, the offi
cials have succeeded in gathering
unto their fold a representative entry
list and one race which will display
the prowess of two of the most talked
about timber horses in the United
States.
Will Race Stablemate.
Mrs. Thomas W. Durant's Little
Dan, a young son of Dan, rated by
many as the probable successor of the
redoubtable troublemaker in timber
racing history, will meet his own
stablemate, Fugitive, in the 214-mile
post and rail test slated as the fea
ture of a four-race card. Fugitive
last year set all the pace in the Mary
land Hunt Cup and would have been
an easy winner but for bad luck at
the notoriously stiff thirteenth fence.
Also In the timber race will be
Mrs. T. H. Somerville’s Oliver C.,
a young horse, full of speed, and the
Northwood Stables Tyrone, the strong
running mare which made a show
of a field in the hunters' challenge
trophy race at Hartford County last
Fall. Campbell Wiers’ good timber
topper Soldiers Fate, with Jim Ryan
in the saddle, also must be counted
a contender in this event.
A feature of the timper course here
is the fact it really is not alto
gether timber at that. Ten of the
fences, jumped in succession, are good
strong post and rails, when the round
of them is completed the leapers
swing onto the brush course and
finish over six good fences of the
type "Tommy'’ Hitchcock perfected.
Single Flat Race.
There are 16 fences to be cleared
in the 2-mile brush contest also, and
about 20 in the 2’j-mile route. The
2-mile race opens the day's program
at 3:30 p.m., following a brief morn
ing aperitif in the form of a single
flat race at the Whitney track.
Siiverskin, the Coq Gaulois geld
ing, which Hitchcock raced so suc
cessfully in the past three years at
the professional tracks, will reign
favorite among seven horses entered
in the opening brush division. Rigan
McKinney will have the mount to
race with such strong opponents as
Noel Laing's Fairy Lore. Mrs. F. Am
brose Clarks' Snee. to be ridden by
the English jockey, Haraway, and
the Northwood Stables’ Citron.
McKinneys presence atop Bolero In
the second race also may influence
that horse's popularity with the
crowd, although the list of starters
includes Dorwood Stables’ Greatorex,
Mrs. Vemer Z. Reed, jr.’s Our Friend
and four others to be reckoned with
stewards of the meeting are A. C.
Bostwick. Henry W. Bull, F. S. Von
stade and A. S. Craven, representing
the National Steeplechase and Hunt
Association.
Among the governors controling
the meet are Mr. Baltazzi. G. H.
"Pete" Bostwick. Henry W. Bull. F.
Ambrose Clark. T. W. Durant. Au
gustus F. Goodwin. W. Russell Grace,
Thomas Hitchcock. Seymour Knox,
H W. Sage, F. S. Vonstade and Bay
ard Warren.
Mail Profits Climb.
Profits of the British post office
in the last financial year were $55,
000,000. a new record.
i
That’s Whara
2SS« BUTTER
In America
Has Demonstrated Its Superiority
for Years and Years
Ever since 1923, when huge quanti
ties of Louelia were first ordered by the
United States Navy Department, and
even before that, it has grown in popu
larity. THEN it met the Government's
rigid specifications for a SWEET
CREAM butter—and TODAY it meas
ures up to the highest requirements in
purity, freshness and sweetness.
Its success at the table ft largely
responsible for the winning of over 500
prizes.
It's the Sweet Cream Butter
With a Reputation
Cobb's Daughter
Forced to Write
By Father's Fame
Foregoes Hankering for
Stage to Adopt ‘Miser
able Profession.*
By the AssocUted Pres*.
NEW YORK, March 17.—She might'
have became an actress, archaeologist
or social butterfly, but Elizabeth Cobb
chose Instead to follow in the literary
footsteps of her father, Irvin 8. Cobb
—even though writing is to her the
“n-.ost miserable” occupation In the
world.
She wrote her first book in a
“haunted” Florentine monastery, trav
eled with a circus and on cattle boats
to obtain “color” for others, but today
she said her life "hasn't been a bit
glamorous.”
She has written three successful
novels, the last of which was bought
by the movies last week, and is half
way through another, forcing herself
to write because:
“I think I'm vain.
“I would like to earn some money.
“And I think every one expected me
to write.”
Irvin S. Cobb’s daughter is a bru
nette who talks with the same facility
with which she writes and who has
inherited her father's knack of yarn-,
spinning.
TO TREASURY HEAD
Comment by Morgenthau
Said to Have Provoked
Vote In House.
By th» Associated Press.
A coincidence was blazed today for
the break between the sizable silver
bloc and the administration.
As a result, the House will vote
Monday on two silver bills which defi
nitely lack Treasury support.
It so happened, some House mem
bers said, that Secretary Morgenthau
selected the wrong day to say that a
special survey showed some silver ad
vocates were not entirely disinterested
personally In the price of silver.
The Treasury Secretary’s statement
came just after he had talked about
silver with members of the House
Coinage Committee. They understood
that he was not enthusiastic about
any more sliver legislation. For the
most part, they were Inclined to hold
back.
Seeing the statement had caused
irritation, they communicated with
Morgenthau. He promptly Issued
another saying he had found no
member of Congress who hsd bought
silver.
That Was not enough. Bllverites
took their case to Speaker Rainey, a
silver man. They demanded a chance
to vote on two bills. He agreed. An
effort will be made further to have
Morgenthau give in executive session
any information he might have to
substantiate his statement.
One measure called for Monday
would let the Treasury pay a premium
above the world price for silver
shipped into this country In pay
ment for exported agricultural sur
pluses; the other would require the
Treasury to purchase up to S.SOQg*
000,000 ounces of silver In an attempt
to raise Its price.
[ Prowess Jaila Man.
CAMPBELLTON. New Brunswick
OP).—When John Perron of Val
d'Amour asked his cousin, James Per
ron, if the latter were "as good a man
as I am,” and James replied In tha
aulrmatlve, John knocked his cousin
1 down, bit off the end of his nose and
used fists to inflict other injuries, ac
cording to James’ complaint in court.
John is now in Jail awaiting trial.
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