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U.S. FARM (PORTS
FACING BIG YEAR
Preparations Being Made
for Markets on Pre-War
Basis.
Bj the Associated Press.
Preparation for American competi
tion in export farm markets on a pre
war basis by 1937 was disclosed yes
terday at the Department of Agricul
ture.
The Division of Foreign Crops and
Markets announced that in 1935 all
the great importers of United States
agricultural products, with the single
exception of Germany, had in one or
two cases exceeded and in others came
near reaching their 1909-10 to 1913-14
percentages.
Published tables showed the United
Kingdom took 34 5 per cent of the to
ts! exports, compared with 37.2 per
cent in the pre-war period. France
took 7.1 per cent, a fraction less than
the pre-war 8.0 per cent, and Italy
stood even at 4.2 per cent. Japanese
imports moved from 2.3 per cent to
14.1 and Canadian increased from 4.6
to 5.8.
Views of Statisticians.
Statisticians emphasized that while
foreign customers purchased their pre
war percentages of Arne: lean farm
exports they took neither the pre-war
volume nor value. They did not ex
pect 1937 exports to reach the pre-war
mark.
For Instance, the value of American
farm exports in 1935 was given as
$747,700,000. compared with $1,038.
000.000 average in pre-war years.
A. A A. officials said the foreign
situation by trade figures indicated a
normal correlation between farm sur
pluses and export outlet by 1937, when
major crops were expected to compete
abroad on a world price basis.
They said Administrator Chester C.
Davis, in Europe to investigate agri
cultural conditions, planned to study
the possibility of pre-war imports If
the United States again offered farm
surpluses on a pre-war basis.
Secretary Wallace estimated a 260.
©00.000-bushel wheat carry-over on
July 1, 1937, if the current growing
crop has favorable weather through
the season, giving the United States
an exportable surplus of 135.000,000
bushels.
Domestic Market Prospects.
Trade statisticians immediately
speculated on prospects of a lower
domestic market, possibly putting
United States grain on an export basis
for the first time in several years.
Withdrawal of the 12-cent Govern
ment loan returned cotton to the world
price level. A wheat surplus, an in
crease in hog numbers and a general
heavier production of farm commodi
ties. which previously had been re
duced by draught, was expected to
bring domestic and world markets
nearer in line.
Administrator Davis’ trip abroad was
eaid to be part of the preparation
under way for solution of export prob
lems threatening to arise next vear
as the era of agricultural scarcity
draws to a close.
Officials indicated he would discuss
it length, with British authorities,
the possibilities of freer trade facili
ties between the United States and
the United Kingdom. Numerous em
bargoes and quota restrictions have
been whittled down by the reciprocal
trade treaties, they said, but no agree
ment yet has been entered with the
United Kingdom.
OWNERS URGED TO KEEP
PETS FROM WILD LIFE
Cogs and Cats Take Heavy Toll
Among Birds and Animals, j
Says Forest Service.
A harrowing description of the dam- j
age which cats and dogs can do to
wild life and an appeal to cat and dog
owners to keep their pets in check
when in the vicinity of game areas
was issued today by guardians of the
nearby George Washington National j
Forest.
"When friend husband is told to j
•wind up the clock and put out the
cat,’" said a Forest Service state
ment, "few people realize that from
that moment death and destruction
to wild life stalk In the honeysuckle!
and shrubbery till daylight. Many a ■
pretty little kitty that purrs so softly |
by the hearth or plays with a ball of i
yarn becomes a thing of terror to
game birds when turned out after
dark”
The statement said there were at
least 3,800 cats in the George Wash
ington Forest and that every cat
killed 50 birds annually, a total of
190,000, mostly quail.
PAN-HELLENIC GROUPS
HEAR MRS. M’MILLIN
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The importance of co-operation
among women in order to further
their own advancement was stressed
by Mrs. Lucille McMilltn. civil serv
ice commissioner, in an address at the
annual luncheon of the National Pan
heilenic Association at the Mayflower
Hotel yesterday. More than 400 wom
en attended.
Mrs. McMillln spoke on "The Prog
ress of Women In Government,”
pointing out there are now 120,770
women In the Government sendee j
under civil service alone. She traced
the employment of women in the
Federal service from 1862, when they
were first appointed to minor positions
In the Treasury Department
Mrs Robert Stearns, president of
the association, welcomed the newest
member, Beta Phi Alpha, and Intro
duced the guests of honor. Prior to
the luncheon Mrs. Percival Hall, jr„
displayed a copy of each of the na
tional sorority magazines.
Baby Resembling
Infant James VI
Sought for Film
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD. Calif., March
28.—There’s a movie role open
for a baby who resembles por
traits of James VI of Scotland In
his infancy.
Unable to And a youngster
with the required "Stuart mouth,”
. shaped like a cupid's bow with a
full underlip. a studio issued a
general appeal tor candidates
after exhausting casting office
lists.
The baby will play with Kath
arine Hepbum in “Mary of Scot- j
land.” l
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A
Plan Visiting Nurse Society Session
Leaders of the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society are shown at the home of Mrs. Harlan
Fiske Stone, wife of Justice Stone of the United States Supreme Court, as they arranged for
the annual meeting of the society next Wednesday afternoon at the District Red Cross Chap
ter, 1730 E street, when Dr. Harry Stoll Mustard, associate professor of the School of Hygiene
of Johns Hopkins Hospital, will speak on “The Place of the Public Health Nurse in the Public
Health Movement." In the group are: Seated on footstool Mrs. Charles F. Wilson; on daven
port. left to right, Miss Janet B. Houtz, chairman; Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone, president; Mrs.
R. M. Kauffmann; standing, Mrs. Emory S. Land. —Harris-Ewing Photo.
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Deputies Named to Serve at
Hearing on Venue Plea
in Wilson Case.
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md.. March 28.
Precautions to safeguard the gang
sters accused of the ‘'mistaken
Identity” slaying of Allen B. Wilson,
newspaper route carrier, when they
are brought here Monday for hearing
on their pleas for venue change were
completed today.
Interest will center in the recom
mendation of State’s Attorney James
H. Pugh regarding the place where
the accused men will be sent for trial.
Pugh himself declined to hint as to
the recommendation he will make.
Under the Maryland law defendants
in murder cases are entitled to have
their trials removed to another juris
diction upon the filing of affidavits
that they believe they cannot get a
fair and impartial trial in the county
where the crime occurred. The Wil
son suspects have filed petitions for
removal.
Court to Make Decision,
The place to which the case is
sent, however, rests in the discretion
of the court, and the prosecutor has
the privilege of suggesting a location.
Some veteran local attorneys say that
if the court follows its customary pro
cedure it will send the cases to one of
the Western Maryland counties.
Precautions taken by the local au
thorities to safeguard the prisoners
include the appointment of several
deputy shenfTs, who will guard the
court room while the hearing is in
progress.
The men whom the State Is anxious
to surround with many policemen so
that none of their underworld friends
will attempt to free them are Albert
McDermott, alias John “Slim” Dunn;
Albert S. Sutton and Ernest Myers.
They are being held In the District
Jail for safekeeping. •
Attorneys Are Chosen.
Dunn will be represented at the
hearing by Attorney Dorsey K. Offutt.
Thomas L. Dawson, Maryland’s secre
tary of State, is Sutton’s counsel, while
Samuel A. Levin of Baltimore appears
for Myers.
William Cleary, a fourth man In
dicted In the Wilson murder and re
putedly held in the jail here, is ex
pected to be a State witness. He has
never been arraigned.
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CITY-WIDE PROJECT
PLANNED BY SCOUTS
Good-Will Industries to Receive
Aid in Collections—Weaver
to Be Guest Tuesday.
As a city-wide good turn this
Spring. Boy Scouts of Washington are i
planning to help the Goodwill Indus
tries collect furniture, clothing, books,
papers and magazines. Scout officials
said yesterday in an announcement of
Scout activities planned for the fu
ture.
Ladies’ night will feature the next
session of the University of Scouting
at Gordon Junior High School, Tues
day evening. Charles L. Weaver,
Scout executive of the Richmond, Va..
Council, will be guest of honor, and
the Harmonica Band of the school
will furnish musical entertainment.
The Scout school will continue In op
eration until April 14.
Many Scouts are competing in the
D. C. A. A. U. junior swimming cham
pionships to be held at the Y. M. C.
A. pool on Thursday, April 0.
Two new Scout papers made their
first appearance recently, the Snoop
er, a Troop 2 publication at McKen
drie M. E. Church, and the Prince
Georges County Seouter, published in
the Interests of scouting in adjacent
Maryland. About 30 troop papera are
in operation in the local council at the
present time.
All new Scout units registered in
the District of Columbia Council dur
ing the Jubilee Year, 1936, are to be
swarded special emblems by the na
tional headquarters.
HOLY WEEK SERVICES
Rev. George T. Waite to Assist in
Falls Church Meetings.
PALLS CHURCH, Vs.. March 28
(Special).—Rev. Oeorge T. Waite of
Richmond, general secretary of the
Virginia Baptist Board of Missions
and Education, will assist Rev. XJ. 8.
Knox, pastor of Columbia Baptlit
Church, in a aeries of religious meet
ngs, commencing Palm 8unday, April
i, and continuing each night, except
Saturday, through Easter. The meet
nga will begin at T:46 p.m.
Canon Dies
REV. JOSEPH FLETCHER.
CATHEDRAL CANON
Rev. Joseph Fletcher, 75,
Had Conducted Services
Earlier in Day.
R«v. Joseph Fletcher, • canon of
the Washington Cathedral, died sud
denly about 11 o'clock last night at
his home, 2920 Thirty-fourth street.
He was 75 years old.
Apparently In good health, the
canon had conducted two sendees at
the Cathedral earlier in the day.
Rev. Fletcher had been connected
with the Cathedral for nearly a
decade, having gone there after re
tiring as rector of Rock Creek Parish,
where he was stationed for many
years.
Prior to his affiliation with Rock
Creek Parish, he was rector and prin
cipal of the Hannah More Seminary
at Reisterstown. Md.
Besides his duties as canon at the
Cathedral, he had charge of the
library there.
He is survived by Ills widow.
Funeral services will be announced
later.
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TRADE GAINS SHOWN
IN SPITE OF FLOODS
Business Tempo of Country Only
“Temporarily Interrupted,”
Report States.
By the Associated Press.
The Commerce Department reported
yesterday the floods only temporarily
Interrupted “the general business
tempo of the country.”
In Its weekly survey of 32 cities,
the department said “cities outside the
flooded regions experienced seasonal
gains in retail trade under the impetus
of brisk demand for apparel items."
“The expected serious reaction on
wholesale trade has not so far ma
terialized," it added.
“Tha work of rehabilitation pro
ceeded rapidly as the intensity of the
floods subsided and it was anticipated,
according to the reports, that within
a few months conditions would be
restored to about normal.”
INSURED BANKS REPORT
INCREASE IN ASSETS
10 Per Cent Gain Shown for 1035
by 14,121 Commercial
Institution*.
By th« Auoeiatca Prea.
A 10 per cent increase in total assets
of Injured commercial banks for 1935
was reported yesterday by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp.
The corporation said the assets of
14,121 insured banks on December
31, last, amounted to 150,915,092,000
in contrast with $46,436,802,000 re
ported by 14.115 Insured institutions
the comparable date of the previous
year.
The figures covered institutions
holding more than 98 per cent of the
total assets of all the country's com
mercial banks.
More than 27 per cent of the as
sets were held u cash, or deposit* la
other banks at the year’s end, the
report said, and about 26 per cent
were invested in either United States
Government securities, or obligations
wholly guaranteed by the Government.
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Charles Gaither, Indicted in
“Numbers’' Racket,
Found Dead.
by the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March 28 —Charles
Gaither, a central figure in the "num
j bers’’ racket inquiry here, was mur
dered early today.
Apparently “taken for a ride."
Gaither was found dead on the lawn
; of a vacant Summer house near Perry
Hall, Baltimore County. There was a
bullet wound in bis temple. He was
I unarmed.
Gaither was one of the first accused
by the grand Jury investigating lot- i
tery activities here. More than 40
civilians and 30 policemen face con- 1
spiracy charges.
Gaither, free under $10,000 bond,
never had surrendered in person to the
authorities.
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A post-mortem examination was
planned by Magistrate Henry D. Pro
: bert of Kingsville, who also is a cor
! oner.
Baltimore City police Joined county
authorities in investigating the case.
Near the spot where Gaither’s body ,
was found stood his wife’s green sedan,
the upholstery statned with blood.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Guest, who
operate a filling station on the Bel
Air Road, reported they saw a green j
sedan turn off the road and go toward
the Summer house shortly after mid
night. Mrs. Guest said she heard a j
shot and that another car parked for
a moment beside the green sedan,
then turned back toward Baltimore. 1
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PROGRAM IS PLANNED
BY PHI GAMMA DELTA
—
Dye to Speak at Annual Norris
“Pig Dinner” of Local Chap
ter Thursday.
Dr. Alexander V. Dye. head of the '
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, will speak at the annual
Norris “pig dinner’’ given by the
Washington graduate chapter of Phi
Gamma Delta In the University Club
at 7 p.m. Thursday in observance of
the fraternity’s 88th anniversary.
Representatives Darden of Virginia.
Ludlow of Indiana and Lee and Fergu
son of Oklahoma, with Donald R.
Rlehberg, former N. R. A. head, and
Hugh M. Tate of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, will be among the
guests. Edward L. Bacher. manager
of the foreign commerce department j
of the United States Chamber of
Commerce, will be symposiarch at the
dinner, for which Vernon M. Knox is
in charge of arrangements. Officers
will be elected.
Rlehberg is on the program to sing
“Smoke Dreams.” one of the frater
nity's songs which he wrote while a
member of the University of Chicago
chapter.
The "pig dinner” was originated by
the late Frank Norris, novelist, nearly
40 years ago as an outgrowth of
rivalries with other fraternities at the
University of California, when he was
a student there.
GYPSY WILES RESULT
IN LOOT TOTALING $117
Man Finds Wad of Blank Paper
In Place of His “Charmed’*
Money.
Two persona were victims of gypsy
wiles yesterday, one of them, an
elderly colored man, losing all his
savings, according to reports to
police.
The colored man, David Mundy, 70,
of 2425 K street, found himself
minus $79 after two women persuaded
him they could “charm” -his money
and double it by placing it In a small
packet tied about his waist. He found
the packet contained a wed of blank
paper when the women left.
Mrs. Ethel M. Hendricks, 1341 Irv
in* street, said a gypsy offered to read
her mind for 25 cents. After Instruct
ing Mrs. Hendricks to get her pocket
book and Bible, the gypsy left, saying
she would return In a short time.
When she came back, Mrs. Hendricks
said, the supposed fortune teller
grabbed $38 from Mrs. Hendricks'
pocketbook and fled, threatening her
victim's life if an outcry was made.
Jewish Juniors to Meet
* Nomination of officers will be the
principal business of the Council of
Jewish Juniors when It meets at • pm.
Thursday at the Jewish Community
Center. Sarah J. Oroasman, chairman
of the Nominating Committee, will
read tha committee's report.
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FOUR DAYS REMAIN
TO SETTLE RELIEF
Maryland Assembly’s Fore
most Effort Needed to
Pass Tax Bill.
BY JACK ALLEN.
. Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ANNAPOLIS. March 28.—The State
Assembly, swinging Into the fourth
and final week of Its deliberations on
Monday, will be confronted with a
task requiring Its foremost efforts to
complete.
Its chief objective, of course, will be
enactment of a relief tax program—
the purpose for which the extraordi
nary session was called, but which the
legislators have yet to accomplish
after three weeks’ work.
A secondary, but nevertheless Im
portant point In Its program will be
to decide whether Gov. Nloe’s appeal
for funds to complete the remodeling
of the executive mansion Is to be
granted.
280 Measures Pending.
In addition to disposing of those
problems the lawmakers must act ;
jpon more than 200 other measures
>f State-wide and local interest before
the session comes to a mandatory close
it midnight Thursday.
The congestion was caused by appli
cation of rules In both House and
Senate prohibiting the passage of any
legislation until a program of levies
could be worked out to raise revenue
For direct relief during the coming
('ear.
Only twice have the two chambers
deviated from this ruling, once to
snact a bill permitting the Governor
to declare special bank holidays In
Western Maryland’s flood rone and
igain to provide for the appointment
cf the Ritchie Memorial Commission.
Conference Committee.
The necessity of naming a confer
ence committee of Senators and Dele
jates to decide upon supplemental
revenue raising measures for welfare
purposes arose over the week end after
the House amended the Senate tax
sill, which would have raised 13,
LOO,000.
Upwards of half a million dollars
vas lopped of! anticipated proceeds
From the program when the 10 per
cent levy on amusements was whittled
town to 1 per cent by the lower cham
ser last night. An additional tax
ranging from 5 to IS cents on all free
imusement passes was added, but It
*111 not balance the 9 per cent slash
n the original proposal.
The program, on third reading be
fore the House and still open to
imendments, provides for a $l-per
barrel levy on beer, a 5-cent-per-gal
lon floor tax on liquor, a 1 per cent
automobile titling levy and the new
amusement tax.
Twa Suggestions Pending. ■
Two means of raising additional
revenues for relief have already been
suggested and both will be referred
to the Conference Committee im
mediately after its appointment.
A bill calling for a flat 2 per cent
tax on Incomes earned in Maryland,
Introduced by Delegate William G.
Gassaway of Howard County, is now
on third reading in the House. Dele
gate James H. Broumel of Harford
County will present a measure on
Monday calling for a 1 per cent gross
receipts, tax on utilities, with which
he unsuccessfully endeavored to amend
the Senate bill last night.
The Legislature finds Itself in a
dilemma on the executive mansion
question. A Senate measure which
would have raised the money required
to complete the work and behind
which a House majority was lined up
failed to receive a constitutional ma
jority in the 8enate yesterday. No
alternate plan has been offered.
The Senate bill was Resigned to
abolish 'he State Survey Commission
and divert its unexpended funds—
approximately $30,000—to finishing
the mansion renovation.
Local Measures Remain.
Many highly Important local meas
ures are among those which must
be ground out by legislative machin
ery during the four days remaining
before adjournment.
Several pending bills are Intended
to permit the Issuance of local and
State bonds for repairing the dam
age caused by the Potomac River
flood.
Included in the maas of pending
proposals are many affecting Prince
Georges and Montgomery Counties.
The Mils have gained vantage posi
tions within the past two days and
now can be hastily enacted.
G.A.R. TO GIVE MEMORIAL
BENCH TO DISTRICT
When the Grand Army of the Re
public holds Its seventieth annual en
campment In Washington In Septem
ber. It will present to the District gov
ernment a memorial bench of granite,
which will be placed on the terrace
of the new Georgetown branch of the
public library.
This has been announced by
Senator Walsh. Democrat, of Massa
chusetts. who made arrangements with
the Commissioners for acceptance of
the memorial a( the request of Mrs.
Phyllis M. Dean of Westboro, Mass.,
national patriotic instructor of the
auxliairy, to the Sons of Union Vet
erans of the Civil War. Senator Walsh
explained that it is customary for the
Grand Army of the Republic to present
a memorial of this kind each year to
the city in which the encampment Is
held.
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