Evening star. [volume], November 15, 1936, Page A-9, Image 9

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Total for All Products Sent
Abroad Is Greater Than,
1935, However.
A decline in the valine of farm prod
ucts exported by this country in the
” first quarter of the current fiscal
year and an increase in agricultural
imports for. the same period compared
with 1935 were reported yesterday by
the Agriculture Department.
For the July through September
period this year the value of all agri
cultural exports was placed at $152,
635.000 as against $158,613,000 for the
game months In 1935.
Imports of all agricultural products
for the June-September period were
valued at $322,796,000. as against
$286,236,000.
Of these Imports "competitive farm
products’’ were valued at $154,839,000
the first quarter of the present fiscal
year as against $145,144,000 In 1935.
While value of farm products ex
ports declined, sales of other goods
were large enough to bring the export
total to $569,209,000. well above the
1935 total of $533,588,000.
Total imports for the quarter this
1 year of $615,043,000 also were above
the same three months last year, when
they were valued at $522,161,000.
Cotton exports valued at $60,025,000
for June-September this year and
$66,253,000 In 1935, and tobacco val
ued at $32,799,000 this season and
$36,860,000 last, comprised the built
of this country's sales to the world
In farm products both years.
Volume of exports for this Sep
tember showed a "marked rise,’’ the
department said, reaching 63 per cent
of pre-w’ar levels, the highest index
for any month this year and also
above September thq last two years.
, Cotton rose to 79 per cent of pre
war volume, with tobacco at 134 per
cent. Fruit export volume was below
August and last September but still
327 per cent of pre-yar volume.
LEAGUE OF COAST GUARD
TO HEAR MME. UTGOFF.
Widow of Russian Naval Officer
to Talk at Meeting
.
Wednesday.
Mme. Lydia Utgoff. widow of
Comdr. Victor V. Utgoff of the im
perial Russian navy, killed in a plane
crash while attached to the flying
service of the United States Coast
Guard, will address the League of
Coast Guard Women at its annual
meeting and luncheon at the Co
lumbia Country Club next Wednes
day.
Mrs. Russel R. Waesche, wife of
the Coast Guard commandant, will
preside at the business meeting, which
begins at 10 am.
Among the guests will be Mrs.
Henry Morgenthau. jr., wife of the
Secretary of Treasury; Mrs. George
T. Pettenglll. head of the Navy relief
here; Mrs. Thomas Parran, wife of
the surgeon general of the Public
Health Service; Miss Edith Spray of
the American Red Cross, and Mrs.
F. C. Billard, widow of Admiral Bll
lard, founder of the Coast Guard
League.
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■ Parliament Did Nothing.
The so-called "addled Parliament"
met on April 6, 1914, sat through two
months and was dissolved by James Z
without having passed a single bill.
CONTRACTORS’ UNIT
TO HOLD MEETING
Program for Betterment of Con
struction Companies to
Be Considered.
The Governing snd Advisory Boards
of the Associated General Contrac
tors of America will hold their annual
Fall meeting tomorrow and Tuesday
at the Willard Hotel to consider imme
diate development of a program for
betterment of the construction com
pany.
President W. A. Klinger, Sioux
City, Iowa, and Managing Director
E. J. Harding, Washington, who last
month made an extensive joint tour
through the West for the association,
will submit reports and recommenda
tions based upon observations and
exchanges during their field contacts.
Major consideration will be given
to the questions of accelerating con
struction revival, continuing highway
and public worlcs construction and
combating day-labor competition by
governmental agencies.
Reports to the boards, Harding said,
will show’ a definite and well-founded
upward movement in private construc
tion.
Representative general contractors
from every part of the country will
attend the meetings.
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Card Party December 7.
A benefit card party and Christmas
Rift sale will be held by the St. Ger
trude's Guild Monday, December 7, at
the Wardman Parle Hotel ior the St.
Gertrude's Sclfool of Art and Crafts.
Mrs. Robert Whitney Imbrle is presi
dent of the guild.
Columbia Association of
Churches Meets Tuesday
and Wednesday.
The Columbia -Association of Bap
tist Churches will hold its midyear
meeting Tuesday and Wednesday at
the National Baptist Memorial Church,
Sixteenth street and Columbia road.
Moderator E. B. Shaver will con
vene a joint session of the association
and the Columbia Federation of B. Y,
P. U. at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday. He will
introduce Louis F. Lucas, president ol
the federation. Thomas R. Wilson
will hold a court of review, followed
by presentation of a pageant, “The
Frustrations of Luther Rice," directed
by C. B. Mclnnis.
The Women's Baptist Missionary
Association of the District will meet
at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, in the
church, with Mrs. Oeorge A. Ross
presiding. Addresses will be deliv
ered by Miss Ruth Maguire, Christian
friendliness missionary of the Atlan
tic district, and Miss Inabelle Cole
man of the Foreign Mission Board,
S. B. C.
Rev. John Compton Ball, D. D„ will
lead a devotional service for the asso
ciation at 2:15 p.m., Wednesday, fol
lowed by a business feasion and re
ports from church Institutions on
their work. Memorial services will be
held at 4:15 p.m. for Rev. E. Hez
Swem, V. C., past moderator: Rev.
George E. Truett, V. C., and Rev.
George W. Quick, V. C.
Addresses will be delivered at the
concluding session Wednesday night
by Rev. Joseph T. Watts, D. D., gen
eral secretary, Maryland Baptist Un
ion Association. Baltimore, and Rev.
W. H. Bowler, D. D., executive secre
tary, Northern Baptist Convention
New York City.
Rev. Gove G. Johnson. D. D., pastor
of the National Baptist Memorla
Church, will be host to the assoclatlor
meeting. ,
BOTANIST WILL SPEAK
ON GREAT SMOKY PARK
Dr. Jennlson to Deliver Illus
trated Lecture Here
Wednesday.
The majestic scenery and beautiful
vegetation of the Great Smoky Moun
tains National Park will be described
in word and picture by Dr. H. M
Jennison, associate wild life tech
nician and botanist of the park
Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Govern
ment Auditorium.
Dr. Jennison's illustrated lecture h
a presentation of the National Park
Service, which invites the public. Th«
speaker will tell of the varied displaj
of wild flowers to be found from earlj
Spring until late Fall in the moun
tains of North Carolina and Ten
nessee.
Many Work for Education.
TAMPA, Fla., Dean M. S.
Hale of the University of Tampa says
Jobs ranging from cartoon sketching
to truck driving are enabling 60 per
cent of the university’s students to
pay for their education.
Slated for Inaugural Parade
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W——.
Lieut.-Gov. J. B. Snider of Mississippi with a donkey that
will be presented to James A. Farley as the official mascot of the
Democratic party. The donkey will appear in the inaugural
parade here. The donkey has been featured in Democratic
activities during the last three years. —Wide World Photo.
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