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HULL IS ACCUSED
AS CZM TRADE
Reciprocal Treaty Critic
Claims Death Sentences
Passed on Businesses.
The administration's plan of re
ciprocal trade agreements has been
both lauded and condemned. Here,
in a series of eight articles, of which
this is the fifth, an outstanding au
thority presents his views on this
much-discussed subject. Mr. Gar
nan, who was alien property cus
todian and Assistant Attorney Gen- ’
cral under President Wilson, is pres
ident of the Chemical Foundation,
Inc., and of the Farm Chemurgic
Council.
BY FRANCIS P. G ARYAN.
NEW YORK, June 19 (N.A.N.A.).—
The State Department, through Its
administration of the reciprocal trade
agreement act, is exercising a life
and-death control over American in
dustry. First, indirectly, by making it
possible for foreign producers to dump
their goods in our markets and with
their receipts purchase vast quantities
of our securities; second, directly, by
the power it wields over the tariff.
There is not an established industry
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line. There is not a new enterprise
that he cannot castigate as “in
efficient" and bludgeon out of ex
istence by Introducing ruinous foreign
competition. There is not a piece of
research looking to new uses of our
surplus crops which he cannot in
stantly halt by reducing up to 50 per
cent the duty on the imported article
or material.
The Secretary of State not only can
do these things, but he has done them.
Aims at Trade Expansion.
The reciprocal trade agreement act
was passed in 1934, “for the purpose
of expanding foreign markets for the
products of the United States (as a
means of assisting in the present
emergency in restoring the American
standard of living, in overcoming
domestic unemployment and the pres
ent economic depression, in increasing
the purchasing power of the American
public and in establishing and main
taining a better relationship among
various branches of American agri
culture, industry, mining and com
merce) by regulating the admission of
goods into the United States. • * •
The act has been renewed, despite
the protests of American business,
for a period of three years, effective
June 12.
Not one of the laudable aims of the
• ct has been attained, and it oen be
shown statistically that the State
Department so administered the act
as to produce results precisely op
posite to those anticipated.
The trade agreements make the
Secretary of State a supreme auto
crat, answerable to none. Adhering
to his own peculiar theories of political
economy, Cordell Hull has used these
international agreements to compel
reductions in domestic wages, profits
and prices.
The Case of Matches.
In August, 1935, the State Depart
ment announced openly that it deemed
the proftys paid to executives of an
American match manufacturing con
cern “enormously high.” Therefore,
in the agreement with Sweden, it re
duced the duty on matches. But this
concession had to be generalized to
Russia and Japan as well. In Japan,
adult workers in the match industry
receive 3 cents an hour; children,
two-flfths of a cent. We were asked
to meet that kind of competition.
How long can we maintain the Ameri
can standard of living under such
handicaps?
f Declaring that domestic building
materials were too high, the State
Department reduced all tariffs on
cement, plate glass, tonnage iron and
steel products. American steel work
ers, then receiving 65 cents an hour,
must eventually compete with Euro
pean workers receiving not more than
25 rents an hour, with Japanese at
10 cents an hour and with those of
India at less than 9 cents an hour.
In every agreement the State De
partment has made, it has given away
valuable concessions; in not one has
it gained more than the merest shadow
of an advantage. In many cases, we
have actually sacrificed as much as
32 in possible revenue for every 31
we have gained through exports.
Hampers U. S. Research.
In the agreement with the Nether
lands, the State Department reduced
the duty on starch made from tapioca
and sago. Thereby, it handicapped
its own experimental plant at Laurel,
Miss., which had demonstrated the
possibility of making white starch
from the yellow sweet potato and so
opening up a vast and wholly new
market for the crops of the South.
In the same agreement, it reduced
the duty on Sumatra cigar-wrapper
tobacco, although growers in the
Connecticut Valley, with 6,000 acres
under cultivation, pleaded for pro
tection but a little longer till quantity
production enabled them to meet
Dutch colonial prices. They said that
they were using 35,000,000 square
yards of American cotton cloth to
Shade their plants, 100.000 pounds of
American-made cotton string and 7,500
tons of cottonseed fertilizer annually.
Did they get continued protection?
They did not.
For our concessions to the Nether
lands, they promised to buy from us
■ per cent of their milling wheat—a
quantity to supply not over 400,000
persons with bread—provided our
price was "competitive with the world
price." If it was a fraction of a cent
piOre, the Netherlands was released
from its part of the agreement!
Hits Cotton Outlet,
in the same way, the State Depart
ment ruined the flourishing new in
dustry based on the manufacture of
befcutiful and durable Oriental rug
Imitations from American cotton,
pfbmising the possible consumption of
1,900,000 bales. With a stroke of the
pab, it reduced profits from the
domestic manufacture of vegetable
parchments, resulting In wage euts and
lodger hours for American workers.
binder auch conditions, hew can
American capital be Induced to invest
ip/hew enterprises which will utilise
our farm products and insure greater
edShomlc independence?
Manganese is essential to the manu
facture of steel. We have low-grade
oft* in the continental United States
and a surface outcrop, easily and
cheaply mined, in Cuba. An American
syndicate spent $500,000 developing the
Cuban ok. They were shipping it to
the United States in Americas trans
ports, burning American ooal. They
had increased production to $3 Vi per
cent of our national requirements. A
nearby supply of the element was
•Mured. In the event of »arfcwe could
Protect that supply.
Then the State Department reduced
^the tariff on manganese from Bras*
^Thl* was unimportant, for Brasilian
Fined for Hitch-Hiking
These two girls, giving their names as Rose Caracaus, 19,
(left), and Roberta Kremer, 21. of Brooklyn, N. Y., were fined
$16.50 each at Little Rock yesterday for violatijig Arkansas’ new
law against hitch-hiking. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
production is small and the only known
deposit is owned by an American
corporation. But the “unconditional
most-favored-nation” policy caused the
same reduction to be applied to ores
from India, Africa and Russia.
Affects American Defense.
We cannot, as yet, compete with
Eastern ores. But in failing to develop
our domestic sources, we will be left
defenseless in the event of war.
In one case, alone, the State De
partment met its match. In that
case, it attempted to kill off an in
dustry yet in embryo.
The United States has been import
ing annually about $250,000,000 worth
of wood pulp, newsprint, kraft and
other papers from Canada. We are
subjected to periodical and arbitrary
price increases. The chemical foun
dation determined to investigate a
possible domestic source of supply.
After five years of research and the
expenditure of more than $300,000,
its paper chemists were able to make
cheap and excellent papers of all
kinds from the fast-growing, self
sfeding pines that grow on 200,000,000
acres of Southern waste land.
I wrote to the President, asking for
W. P. A. help in building the first
demonstration mill. The President
referred my letter to Secretary Wal
lace, and he referred it to Mordecal
Ezekiel, economic adviser to the De
partment of Agriculture. Mr. Ezekiel
virtually forebade us to go on with the
project. He wTote:
"The products which we import
into this country produce dollars to
pay for the products we export. As
you know, w»e face an acute problem
in farm readjustment because of re
duction in export demand for wheat
and hogs. If we take still further
steps to reduce our imports, the ability
of foreign countries to buy our cotton
and fruits for export will be cor
respondingly reduced and in the end
we will merely intensify our farm
readjustment problem.”
Canada Has Own Food.
Thus, it seemed, we must continue
to pay a quarter billion dollars a year
to Canada. For what? So that they
could buy our foodstuffs? But it
happens that Canada herself has an
abundance of agricultural, forest,
fishery and mineral products to ex
port. All Canada wants of us is
productive machinery to increase her
own industrial self-sufficiency.
The chemical foundation defied
Mr. Ezekiel. It realized, if he did not,
that $250,000,000 sent every year to
Canada was forever lost to our domes
tic economy. But, kept at home, it
could circulate at least 10 times, es
tablishing credits for $2,500,000,000
of trade.
Already some 11 paper mills, cost
ing $70,000,000, are either finished or
building in the Southland. The people
of Texas are raising the money to
build the first newsprint mill. It Is
contemplated that, within 5 or 10
years, $500,000,000 worth of mills will
be built in the South—that we will
be entirely independent of any for
eign source, and that, in addition,
hundreds of thousands of acres and
at least 250,000 of our people will be
working for honest, good wages.
Strange as it may seem, this is not
an argument for high protective tariffs
in perpetuity. The chemical Industry
needs less and less protection each
succeeding day of research. We can
meet the competition of the world.
The Southern pulp and paper industry
will get no tariff, for its products
are "frozen'’ on the free list; has never
asked for tariff and needs no tariff.
If the President's "Yankee trading"
has failed miserably, Yankee ingenu
ity, aided by scientific research, has
been triumphantly successful. What
has been done in the chemical and
paper industries can be done in other
industries.
(Copyrifht, 1»37, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
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Deaths Reported.
Samuel Armlstead, 87, 2650 Wisconsin
ave.
Betty H. Llttlepaae, 84. 1015 N st.
William Champion, 8;i, U. 8. Soldiers'
Home Hospital.
Anne Hill, 77. Kmercency Hospital
Harry C. Albauth, 73. 2915 Klttenhouae
at.
Leila Keene. 66. Sibley Hospital.
Thomas Donnelly, 62, Walter Reed Gen
eral Hospital.
Archie Crockett, 60. Oallineer Hospital.
Rosia B. Walsh. 60, 1664 Monroe st.
Harriet M. Ramsey. 66. 3720 Upton st.
Raymond R. Breen. 67. 1213 Taylor ft.
Lawrence Moody, 57. Georgetown Hos
pital.
Joseph H. Smith. 66, 429 Massachusetts
ave.
Susen V. Beall. 51. Sibley Hospital.
William W. Graham. 43, St. ElUebeth'i
Hospital.
Charles H. Wilson, 38. Emergency Hos
pital.
Joseph D. Kelly, 37, 2947 Tilden it.
William P. Lore. Jr.. 17. Slbler Hospital.
Charles V. Middleton, lr., 18. Galllnger
Hospitsl.
Caroline'Sampson, 88 1624 3rd st.
Llizle Ludley, 65. Galllnger Hospital.
Mary Jenkins, 49. 1222 Linden st. s.a.
Annie Harris, 47, 918 26th st.
James H. Swann. 42. Providence Hospital.
Clarence Taper. 36, 467 Neal st.
Oeorae R. Watson. 36. 1300 Florida ave.
Robert Fortune, 34, 312 Virginia ave.
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Germany1* literature contain*
classical comedies.
Shipping News
Arrivals and Departures
at New York
ARRIVALS.
Today.
| CITY OF BIR HAM—Savannah 7:00 A.M.
BERLIN—Bremen _ -
BRITANNIC—Havre _7:30 P.M.
Tomorrow.
ACADIA—Nova Scotia_5:00 P.M.
PETEK—Port Limon _ 1:00 P.M.
ROBT. E. LEE—Norfolk _ 4:00 P.M.
AMER. MERCHANT—London __ 5:30 P.M.
Monday, June Si.
ANCON—Cristobal 8:30 A.M.
BOKINQUEN—Trujillo City ___ 8:00 A.M.
CALEDONIA—Glasgow __8:30 A.M.
CARACAS—Maracaibo_8:30 A.M.
COLOMBIA—Cristobal _ 8:30 A.M.
FRANCONIA—Liverpool___P.M.
IROQUOIS—Jacksonville __ 7:00 A.M.
QUFEN MARY—Southampton 10:00 A.M.
$U;N OF BERMUDA—Bermuda 0:00 A.M.
VIRGINIA—San Francisco . _ 8:30 A.M.
SAILING.
(Trans-Atlantic.)
Today.
AMER. SHIPPER—Liverpool 11.00 A M.
BERING ARIA—Southampton _ Noon
BLACK GULL—Antwerp ... 8 00 AM.
DEUTSCHLAND—Hamburg_ Midnight
EXERMONT—Tunis 0:00 A.M.
ILE DE FRANCE—Havre_11:00 A M
SATURNIA—Ragusa _ Noon
Tomorrow.
No sailings scheduled.
Monday, June 21.
GREY LOCK—Belra _1:30 p.m.
SAILING.
(tenth and Central Ameriea. West Indies
and Canada.)
Today.
ALASKAN—San Francisco_2:00 P.M.
ATLANTIDA—La Ceiba _ .11:00 A M.
CALAMARES—Santa Marta Noon
F’RT TOWNSHEND—St. John s 11 00 A.M.
MANAQUI—Trinidad 10:00 A.M.
MON. OF BERMUDA—Bermuda 3:00 P.M.
PLATANO—Puerto Cortez . Noon
PONCE—San Juan _ . . _ _ . . Noon
ORIENTE — Havana Noon
SANTA PAULA—San Prancisco Noon
WEST’N WORLD—Buenos Aires 4:00 P.M
Tomorrow.
No sailings scheduled.
Monday. June 21.
ACADIA—Yarmouth ... __ 10:30 A.M.
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Marriage Licenses.
James V. Washburn. 21. 224 12th st. gr
and Nancy J. Perclval. 20, 1828 D st.
n.e.; Rev. Edward Oabler.
Ubert A. Payne. 22. 1028 Lamont st- and
Alma L. Standard. 20, 2234 flth pi. n.e.;
Rev. L. S Michaux.
William D. Priest, 42. Fayetteville. N C
and Ella M. Waters. 41. Marshalltown.
Iowa; Rev. J. W. Ruatin.
George W, Gleason. 38. 118 Decatur
at., and Victoria n. Tarrr, 3fi, 1316
Clifton at.; Rev. Paul Spe-ry.
Roy E James, 28. Palmertown. Pa., and
Beatrice V. Epperson. 23, Salt Lake
City. Utah: Rev. S. •». Carpenter.
David M. Rothenbera. 25. Brooklyn N Y
and Rose N. Weinstein. 25. 452 New
ton st.: Rev. Harry Silverstone.
George W. Hiel. 23, New Salem Pa
and Gertrude V. Ice, 13, 4211 Mitchell
ave. s.e.; Rev. A. K. Linda lev.
Sumner O Burhoe. 34. College Park. Md..
and Alice P. Philips, 2P, 008 Ritten
house st.: Rev. H. E. Cromer.
Woodrow W. Basil. 24. 1418 Pennsyl
vania ave. s.e., and Dorothy M. Con
over 21, 1113 G st. s.e.; Rev. Edward
Gabler.
Robert R. Ziegler. 2fi, White Pitlns. N. Y.
and Mary W. Ford. 23. Jrafton, W. Va.;
Judge R. E. Mattingly.
Edward E. Cray. 24. Newport News. Va..
and Martha L. Waid. 18, Pawhaska.
Okla.: Rev. J. H. Zerhusen.
aesr.te R Bennett. 22. and Ophelta A.
King. 21. both of Charlottesville, Va.;
Rev. A. F. Poore.
Samuel Wright. 40, Alexandria, Va , and
Susie Holloway. 42, 352 H at. a.w.;
Rev. Ernest Willson.
MaxweH H. Elliott. Jr- 31. New York
City, and Elizabeth Cain. 20. St Pe
tersburg. Fla.; Rev. Albert. Evans
Harry SautholT. 58. Madison. Wis.. and
W,n£r* J3' OHmour. 33, Port Huron,
Mich., Rev. J. s. Montgomery.
P,u oPwOHver1' 31 • T-00 Alaska ave
and Marie A. Geracl. 30, 4810 Iowa
ave.; Rev. L, J. Wempe.
A, Bates, 25. and Pauline B.
S.“h'nvf1tot1, 22- bolh 1181 New
itJELW-W" Rev- w H. Brooks.
HCiekiah L. Ashby. 30. 5200 Blaine at.
n.e- and Nettie O. Scott, 13, Eastover,
8 C ; Rev. A D. Gray
25. Navy Yard, and
Bllzabeth V. Andes, 21, 1232 Pleasant
_ pL Rev. J. H. Brooks.
Raymond M. Smith. 22 32 Q st n *
Rev. >t.*Et Barrows°n' '^8* ^ *
MV‘°" T Swi,t' 32’ Belmont. Va„ and
_ R**.*w! S.^AberneHiv 8*»‘Wlv«n'*- Va.;
MaxTne 8tlUw>:'r Okla.. and
Maxme M. Oroom, 35, Perry, o*l*.;
El. Vw «E
fonrd 30ndhe(K8' ?nl Blanch L. Craw
Rev.’ FB H^ris C"mb”i»nJ. Md.;
ThMooreEb'?r£*?v, Jr, 2 V »"d Dorothy B.
N. C Powell h RlIelEh' N- c : R«v.
,rFnMH..?."T«27k 20°1 I »n<l Phyllis
. Aust?n*Heaiy3 613 Qulru‘n* pl': "**•
**?!*.“ ponard 2fl. Franklin. N. H.
ch&s F'iw 8 °reenfieid'
inirinT-V- »nd Bernice M.
RnIE*mMaitlngbi0yth °f 1311 T
Ro£llL£ £*rrr 21. 210 c at. a.w.. and
f**lyh Broo'5„ 18. HyattaviUe. Md.;
Rev Clarence Dtgga.
clTde L. OolT. 21. and Dorothy L. Butler.
1». both of Richmond: Rev. J. E. Briggs.
Clarence B. Nicholson. 22. and Rachel R.
Maters, IP. both of Gaithersburg. Md.;
. Rev Freeley Rohrer.
Jgmes M. Howell. 25. Vinton. Okla . and
Margaret E. McCormick. 28. 115 Carroll
st. s.e.; Rev. W. R. Moody.
MRS. HOFFMAN NAMED
Mrs. Helen Duey Hoffman has been
elected executive secretary of the
Washington Housing Association. She
will succeed Mrs. Florece D. Stewart
and will take office July 1.
Mrs. Hoffman is how working on
housing aspects of radio education
in the Office of Education of the
Interior Department and has been
consultant to the housing division
of P. W. A. and special representative
of the Federal Home Loan Bank
| Board, .
NEW DESCRIPTION
IN PAHS HUNT
Federal Agents Seek Help
From Citizenry of Stony
Brook, N. J.
BACKGROUND—
Ten days ago Mrs. Alice Me
l>onell Parsons, heiress, disap
peared from Long Inland squab
farm operated by her and her hus
band. Later a note for $25,000
ransom was found in the Parson’s
auto. The housekeeper, Anna
Kupryanova. said Mrs. Parson
drove away with a man and
woman, ostensibly to visit a nearby
estate advertised for sale.
Ey tlie Associat'd Press.
STONY BROOK, N. J., June 19 —
Federal agents who have been Inves
tigating the mysterious disappearance
of Mrs. Alice McDonell Parsons, so
ciety matron, on the presumption she
was kidnaped 10 days ago, broadcast
a new description of her today and
at the same time made public the
telephone number of their head
quarters.
The number is Stony Brook 487,
and Earl J. Connelley. inspector in
charge of the agents, said he would
be glad to hear from anybody with
wirthwhlle information.
Connelley released the number for
publication as many of the agents
who have been working on the case
quietly left town, presumably to re
turn to New York.
Description Given Out.
The description of Mrs. Parsons,
given through regular police channels,
said she smiles when talking, is spar
ing of cosmetics and loves children.
Sim is 38, about 5 feet tall, stocky
weighs 132 pounds and has blue-grav
I
n Mary and Buddy Apply for License
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Mary Pickford, once "America’s sweetheartand Charles "Buddy" Rogers, as they made ap
plication for their marriage license in Los Angeles yesterday. They plan to wed June 26 and
sail on an Hawaiian honeymoon. She gave her age as 43 and his as 34. Miss Roseman Rice,
clerk, is at the left. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
eyes, long gray hair still retaining some
black; a ruddy complexion, lrragular
teeth and no scars.
Connelley explained that the de
scription of Mrs. Parsons' clothes was
composite — drawn from several
sources he did not disclose. It fol
lowed closely the original description
sent out through eight States when
she vanished, June 8, and shortly1
after a ransom note demanding *25,
000 was found.
Connelley denied that $24,000, re
ported withdrawn yesterday from a
New York bank by Suffolk County
authority, was to be used as ransom
and said it was not a matter con
nected with the Parsons case.
MIDSHIPMEN INSPECT
AIRPORT LABORATORIES
Second-Class Groups to Visit
Langley Field Throughout
Bummer. ^
Br th« Associated Pre»«,
LANGLEY FIELD, Va„ June 19 —
About 80 midshipmen of the second
class of the United 8tates Naval
Academy spent more than four hours
at the laboratories of the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at
Uingley Field yesterday, arriving on
the peninsula from Annapolis in 10
naval seaplanes at 10 a m. and de
parting for the academy around 2:30
p.m. They were under direction of
Comdr. A. C. McFall, U. 8. N.
The inspectional visits here are’ part
of the Navy's program devoting the
Summer to aeronautics, in keeping
with its desire to have all officers
familiar with research facilities a*
the N. A. C. A.
Groups will come here each Thurs
day during this month, and on July
8, IS and 22, and August 5, 12 and 18
Births Reported.
Harry and Ida Dudwick. girl.
Morgan and Idamay Chism, girl.
JElwood and Dorothy Valentine, ml.
Joseph and Pauline Patton, bay.
Andrew and Daisy Lewis, boy
Albert and Ruth Wheeler, b jv.
Peter and Clara Garofalo, boy,
Albert and Rosa Conte, bor
Lee and Bonnie Hawkins, mi.
Thomas and Mary Huntt, boy.
Edgar and Ethel Forrest, girl.
Charles and Kathryn Raison, girl.
George and Mabel Alfred, bo*'.
Alexander and Ada Gregory, boy.
Joseph and Maggie Williams. Doy.
Leon and Estelle Proctor, boy.
Alex and Mary Walker, girl.
Wade and Lenora Thornton girl.
Luther and Juanita Pope girl.
Thomas and Dorothy MarcTon. girl.
Irving and Esther Sirota, girl.
David and Rosa Zoas. girl.
Joseph and Bernice Kaplan, boy.
George and Margaret Davis, oov,
Pat and Mollle Paglierani. boy
Joseph and Catherine Winter, boy.
Ralph and Elizabeth Gittings, cui.
Malcolm and Ethel Henretty, boy.
Oscar and Leta Dresser. gM.
Lambertus and Marjorie Stageman. girl
■William and Mary Sherwood, girl.
Jay and Louise Murray, bov.
Miser and Alma Rufus, b »y
James and Marion Hodge, boy.
John and Louise Jackson. b3v
Herbert and Lucy Headrn. girl.
Earl and Jessie Clagei.t. ml.
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