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THE BURNSVILLE EAGLE
VOL. 40.
BURNSVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1932
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Congress, Eager to Adjourn, Passes Relief Bill Designed
to Suit President—Meaning of Lausanne Agree
ment—New Franco-British Accord.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
Sen. Wagner
S PEAKER GARNER, having estab
lished his pet campaign issue of
government loans to individuals, was
eontent to let stand President Hoover’s
veto of the Wagner-
I Garner relief l>ill con-
I talning that feature.
I No ntteinp was made
I in either house or sen-
) pass the meas
ure over the veto and
both chambers speed
ily prepared and
I passed new bills de-
I signed to conform in
the main to the Pres
ident’s wishes. Mr.
Gatner. assuming
"that most of you
gentlemen would like to go home.”
fixed things so the two bills were sent
to Immediate conference so the dif
ferences could be ironed out and con
gress could adjourn.
In the senate the remaking of the
measure was managed largely by Sen
ator Wagner of New York. One
amendment adopted at the Instance of
Senator Glass would permit federal
reserve banks for a two-year period
oj vote of the federal reserve board
and in "unusual and exigent ciroum-
atances” to make loans to any Indi
vidual or corporation unable to secure
credit from other banking institutions.
This at first was repugnant to the
President but he changed his mind
over night and informed Senator Glass
would not object to its inclusion in
the measure.
Id other respects, save for minor
variations, the meausre Is much the
same as the one Mr. Hoover vetoed,
with the Garner loan clause omitted.
G reat Britain and France an
nounced a new understanding,
snowD as a ’•confidence” accord, which
the French regard as a renewal of
the entente cordiale. They agree to
work together for the restoration of
Europe and to keep each other mu
tually informed of fiuestions coming
to their notice similar to that "now
so happily settled at Lausanne.”
Sir John Simon, telling parliament
of- the accord, said flatly it has noth
ing to do with the war debts due the
United States from Britain and
France, adding: ’’If the French peo
ple believe such is the case they will
be quickly undeceived.” On the other
aand. when I'remier Ilerrlot announced
the agreement in Paris he declared
that Great Britain cannot now under
take to negotiate a new debt settle-
■ ment With America without first con
sulting France. Simon said the pact
was not intended to be exclusive and
that German.?. Italy and Belgium lia'i
been invited to associate in its pro
visions with France and Britain.
E urope is saved again, subject to
ratification of the Lausanne
agreement, as Wintson Churchill de
clared ill the British house of com
mons. And ratifica
tion is subject to can
cellation or heavy re
duction of the war
debts the European
nations owe the Unit
ed States. No Euro
pean power has di
rectly proposed to the
United States a re
vision of those debts:
but such action is
hoped for and even
expected by states
men of the former al
lied nations of Eu
rope. Tlie sentiment in Washinp
Is absolutely against cancellation.
That, in a nutshell, is the status
concerning the pact signed at Lau
sanne by tlfe'European powers where
by Germany is to be relieved of all
obligations In the way of reparations
on payment of a lump sum of 3,000,-
. 000,000 gold marks—about $7]4,000.-
000, At the same time that tlio.v
inltiaied, this agreement tlie repre
sentatives of Germany's chief cred
itors signed a secret "genrlemen’s
pact” that their respective parlia
ments would not ratify the treaty un
til the United States had reconsid
ered the question of reducing the
debts due her from Europe. And If
America’s decision Is adverse to such
reduction, the Lausanne treaty be
comes of no effect and the repara
tions situation reverts to its former
status under the Young settlement.
The German government declared
Germany had nothing whatever to do
with the gentlemen's agreement.
Churchil! vigorously attacked the
whole proceedings at Lausanne. He
said that, from his knowledge of pub
lic opinion in America, he believed
"no more unfortunate approach to
ward debt cancellation could have
been made.”
Prime Minister MacDonald and
Chancellor of the Exchequer Cham
berlain both replied to the attacks
of Churchill and others. The latter
said: "We are still ready to cancel
all debts due us. If the United States
should decide to cancel all debts
due her, our offer is still open, [f
America stil! feels she must ask us to
pay more than we have received, we
must consider what we are going to
do. Before we know what America
will propose to do in the matter it
would be unreasonable for us to con
sent to cancel the debts of our Euro
pean allies.”
Though the Lausanne agreement
reduces Germany’s liabilities in the
way of reparations to about one per
cent. It does not remove from Ger
many the stigma of having been sole
ly to blame for the World war. There
fore it is rejected by Hitler’s Nazis
ai.d is distasteful to the Nationalists.
Hitler declared that the new treaty
"will not be worth three marks within
six months.” The German cabinet
approved Chancellor Von Papen's ac
tion in signing the treaty.
A GREE.MENT with the govern
ments of the Dominion of Can
ada and Ontario on the SL Lawrence
seaways project was on the verge of
being completed, but
presumably, would
not be in time for ac
tion by the senate at
this session. Premier
Henry of Ontario
|W ; said it would be'
signed “within a
' week or so.” Presi-
*" ■ dent Hoover had di-
: rected the efforts to
^ bring the matter to
' a speedy conclusion,
Hanford and Hanford Mac-
MacNider Nider, minister to
Canada, was In Wash
ington assisting the State department
in the negotiations, in which Secre
tary Stimson. Canadian Minister Her-
ridge. James Grafton, Rogers, assist
ant secretary of state In charge of the
SL Lawrence plan, and John Hicker-
son, uie deparement's e.xpert on Can
adian affairs, were especially active.
An interesting Incident was the of
fer of Gov,. Franklin D. Roosevelt to
go to Washington and help President
Hoover in expediting the negotiations.
The Presic5ent impiediafeiy ftn-i ipo
lltely refused the offer, advising the
governor to go ahead with his va
cation cruise because "international
treaties fall under the jurisdiction of
the fedei-al government,”
G overnor icoosevelt did pro
ceed with his cruise, sailing with
his three sons up the New England
coast and hearing a figurative olive
branch at the masthead, for he was
in Al Smith waters. His 38-foot yawl.
Myth II. put in for the first night at
Morris cove near New Haven, and
proceeded thence to Stonington. Conn.
There he met J, Haro4d McGrath,
Rhode island state chairman, and
others from that state, to whom he
said:
"I not only fully understand but
greatly appreciate Rhode Island's
standing hy our old friend Governor
Smith In the convention, and I know
now I am going to receive the same
displ.ay of loyalt.v."
His visitors assured him he would
carry Rhode Island, and in further
conversation Roosevelt made it plain
that he was glad to forget past dis
sensions.
The governor’s next stop was at
Wood’s Hole la Massachusetts, and
there, too he made a hid for suiiport
from Smith’s strong friends. Contin
uing along up the coast in leisurely
fashion, he was due to reach Hamptoti
Beach. New Hampshire, on Sunda.v.
and there fire the opening gun of his
campaign.
ct IMMEDIATE" does not mean now
* in the lexicon of the Denmcrats
in the senate. Twice they were given
the opportunity to vote for immediate
legalization of beer, in accordance
with their national party platform, and
twice they Tefused. Their Intention,
now achieved, was to put off the tesl
until after the November election.
Their excuse was that they should not
be called on to vote on the proposition
until an authoritative definition of an
intoxicant could be obtained. Sena
tor Bingham’s beer bill was buried In
committee, aiHl later Senator Shep
pard of Texas prevented consideration
of a resolution offered by Bingham in
structing the surgeon general of the
United States to poll leading phy
sicians and physiologists ns to their
opinion of what constituted an intoxi
cating beverage.
Asliurst of Arizona then tool; a hand,
"The senator from Connecticut," he
cliiiled. “has been attempting to do
what he called 'test the sincerity of
the Democratic senators.' Never did
he apply a true test. Let me tell him
how. Let him introduce a joint reso
lution proposing to amend tlie Consti
tution by abolishing the Eighteenth
amendment and let the roll be called.
There will be no attempt on the part
of the Democratic senators to avoid
their platform.”
Whereupon the wily Bingham Imme
diately produced just such a resolu
tion and asked unanimous consent to
call it up for action. Senators Robin
son and Watson, minority and ina-
jority leaders, agreed this was not the
proper occasion for such a measnrc.
80 the resolution remained on the
table.
, Reym
O N MOTION of Senator Couzeiis of
Michigan, ttie seiuile appoiiiicii h
committee of five senators to investi
gate loans by the Reconstruction Fi
nance corporation. Tlie inquiry will
be conducted in secret and a report
will not be made until next .ianuary.
Administration senators threw their
support to the Couzens plan to head
off a resolution by Senator Norris of
Nebraska for immediate publicity of
all loans.
Critical references were made dur
ing the debate by Senators Couzens
and Norris to an'SSO.fKXi.OOO loan hy
the corporation to what was called
“the Dawes bank” in Chicago.
W HETHER Smith Reynolds, young
heir to the great tobacco for
tune. committed suicide in his home
at Winston-Salem. N. C., or was mur
dered is still unset
tled. The coroner's
jury found he came
to his death at the
hands of “persons un
known,” and so his
widow, the former
Libby Holman of
R stage fame, and his
S chum and secretary,
^ Albert Walker, were
set free by the police.
But Sheriff Transou
-Ids Scott says the case is
by no means closed,
and the authorities will continue their
Inquiry into the suspicious circum
stances surrounding the tragod.v.
The case Is sensational in the ex
treme and the details have tilled
many columns in the newspapers.
Mrs. Reynolds, weeping and near
collapse, departed from Winston-
Salem with her parents for Cincin
nati, their home, and was expected
to go from there to some secluded
place in the mountains. l.eading
lawyers agree that her unborn child,
if born alive, will be a legitimate
heir to the Siri.OOO.OOO left In trust to
young Reynolds by his father, though
there is a possibility that this child’s
chance to inherit might be eliminat
ed by a St,000.000 settlement which
Smith Reynolds gave his first child
-when her mother obtained a divorce.
In any case it does not seem that Lil>-
by Holman is due to receive any
considerable part of the big estate.
P ERU experienced an attempt at
revolution when a lot of civilian
Communists led by army officers re
belled against the government and
seized the imi)ortant commercial city
of Trujillo. But witiiin a few days
loyal troops had bombed them into
sulmilssioij and recaptured the city.
Brazil was not having so easy a
time with a revolutionary uioveiiient
that broke out in the state of Sao
Paulo with the expressed Intention
of overthrowing the government of
ITovisional President Getulio Vargas.
The city of Sao Paulo was occupied
by the insurgents and it was reported
timt they had been joined by federal
troops sent against them.
O VER in Belgium the government
was having a serious time with
striking miners led by Communists.
There were several bloody conflicts
between them and the troops. es|)e-
cially in the Charleroi area, and
there was danger that a general
walkout of workers throughout the
country would ensue. Factory hands
in the Flanders textile region were
joining the strikers. King Albert re
turned from a vacation in Switzer
land to take charge of the situation.
O V JULY 21 there vvill open in
Ottawa the economic conference
of the British Empire, which givco
promise of being one of the most impor
tant gatherings of its
kind ever held. Al
most one-quarter of
the world's population
will be represented,
and it is the hope of
Britain that the con
ference will succeed
Id diverting alxuii
one-third of the
world’s trade to Great
Britain and her do
minions to the disad
vantage of the Unit- F
ed States. Argen
tina and other countries
a considerable share of the British
comiaonwealth trade. This hope, in
the opinion of competent observers,
will scarcely he realized.
R. B. Bennett,
Canada, is hott
and he has this
and ambitions;
“The Imperial Economic confer
ence should devote its etiergies and
abilities, with a common purpose and
whole-hear'ed -eal to ieepening the
channels of intrn-iinperi.il trade b..’
judicious adjustments of tariffs and
other measures, which will aim to
create a larger voLnme of mutually
profitable trade between the different
units of the empire than now exists,
and to make their unrivaled resources
available In greater degree for the
diffusion of a higher standard of well
being among its citizens than they
now enjoy.”.
Among the highly interested unof
ficial observers will be those from
the United States, eager to know what
will be the results of the present tariff
law that Is aimed largely at Canada.
It is known in Ottawa and in Wash
ington that Mr. Bennett Is ready to
say to the English delegates: “Give
us a preference in your market and
we will give you 'free entry of goods
not produced in the Dominion.” Which
would-be a sad-'blow to the United
States business man if It were not
for the fact that the English manu
facturer would be handicapped by
transportation charges.
©, I9S2, Western Newspaper Onion.)
. Bennett
huidini
prime minister of
to the conference,
to say of its objects
CONGRESS PASSES
NEW RELIEF BILL
Glass Plan for Loans Not
Opposed by Hoover.
Washington. — The $2,122,000,000
emergency relief bill rewritten to
meet the views of President Hoover
was passed by the house of repre
sentatives by tlie vote of 290 to 46.
It was sent to conference with the
senate, which had passed a similar
bill, with indications that it will be
agreed upon in both chambers and
forwarded to the White House.
Two major .differences appeared,
the Glas^ amendment in the senate
bill to open federal reserve redis
counts to individuals and corporations
and an amendment adopted by the
house at the Instigation ^ Speaker
John N. Garner, providing publicity
for future bank loans to be made by
the Reconstruction Finance corpora
tion.
President Hoover sent word that
he would not oppose the Glass
amendment. Designed to afford re
lief for persons or corporations not
able to obtain Reconstruction Finance
corporation loans and unable to bor
row through ordinar.v hanking chan
nels, it provides:
That the federal reserve board, by
a vote of not less than five members,
may authorize any federal reserve
bank to discount any individual or
corporation paper eligible for dis
count for member banks after it has
been determined that the borrower
has been unable to obtain credit ac
commodation.
With the omission of the Garner
provision for unlimited government
loans to individuals, the chief reason
for President Hoover's veto of the
bill previously passed, the new meas
ure is in most respects like the for
mer one. With its adoption congress
felt it had done enough and was
ready to adjourn to December.
WASHINGTON BRIEFS
President Hoover signed into law a
bill to exempt husbands of American
citizens from the immigration quota.
President Hoover attended the for
mal preview of the "Pantheon de la
Guerre,” famous World war painting.
Harry s. Nev.^formev po.stmaster
general and Un.ted States senator
from Indiana, was appointed commis
sioner general of the federal govern
ment’s participation in tlxe 1933
World’s fair in Chicago by I’resident
Hoover.
Operations in thet boot and shoe in
dustry in the United States have
shown a definite upturn recently, ac
cording to reports received in the Com
merce department’s shoe division.
The census bureau announced the
number of persons claiming to have
passed 300 years in the 1930 counting
of noses was 3,964, as compared with
4,267 in 1920, a decrease of 7,1 per
cent. Of the 1930 total, 2,407 were
negroes, 1,1S0 whites and 317 of other
races.
Internal Revenue Shows
Big Decline for Year
Washington.—Nevada alone of all
the states pai ’ more into Uncle Sam’s
coffers the last fiscal year than in
the previous year.
This is revealed in the internal rev.
enue bureau’s statement of rev
enues, which shows a net iecline of
about 35 per cent for 1932 as com
pared with the previous year. Re
ceipts of $1,554,233,363 in 1932 com
pared with $2,428,228,754, or a de
cline of $87,3,995,393. As against this
combined figure. Nevada returned
.$1,340,332 in revenue during the 1932
fiscal year, as comp.ared with $1,-
340,061, an increase of $270.
Medals and Wounds
Save Hero From Cell
Chicago.—His six medals, awarded
overseas for bravery, and the three
war wounds he had suffered, served
to save Carl Steplna from being re
turned to the Joliet penitentiary as
a parole violator. He had been ar
rested for disorderly conduct. Munic
ipal Judge Green, who served in the
same marine division with Stepina, re
frained from finding him guilty, which
would have automatically returned
him to prison.
SENATE VOTE ON
BEER IS AVOIDED
FLOYD E. THOMPSON
Bingham Bill Buried After a
Lively Debate.
Washington.—Action at this session
on the Bingham bill to legalize 2.75
per cent beer by weight was blocked
In the senate.
To avoid a direct vote on it before
adjournment, senate Democrats lined
up with the Republicans and sup
ported the motion of Senator Robin-
eon of Arkansas to send the l>ill liack
to the senate judiciary committee.
The vote was 50 to 25.
Robinson said the purpose of re
committing the bill was not to dodge
a direct test. He wanted first to ob
tain a study of the constitutionality
of a possible higher alcoholic con
tent for beverage under the Eight
eenth amendment.
Senator Bingham of Connecticut
pleaded for 2.75 per cent beer as a
nonintoxicating healthful beverage,
and a rich revenue producer lor a de
pleted federal treasury. Senator
Glass of Virginia clashed with Bing
ham, each accusing the other of
playing politics.
The Virginian accused Bingham of
trying to make a political campaign
for election “on a glass of beer.” The
Wickersham commission, which he
described sarcastically as the “wicked
sham" commission, drew Glass’ fire.
Senator Bingham charged that the
real purpose of the return of the
bill to committee was to delay a vote
until after the election.
Senators Wagner of New York and
Tydings of Maryland, Democrats,
filed motions to discharge the judi
ciary committee from furtlier con
sideration of a resolution for repeal
of the Eighteenth amendment. The
purpose was to obtain a vote on the
floor.
Rebellion in Brazil
Threatens Vargas’ Rule
Montevideo, Uruguay.—The govern
ment of the state of Sao Paulo, Bra
zil, was overthrown in an armed up
rising in the City of Sao Paulo, the
capital of that state, according to
dispatches received here. It is be
lieved here tlint the rebel success may
result in'the fall of Provisional Presi
dent Getulio Vargas of Brazil.
Golonel Fllguevia, reports said, led
the insurgen ts in battle against troops
loyal to the national irterventcr.
Flores de Cunha, Later reports said
the rebels had disarmed civil author
ities and declared a state of .siege. A
tight censorship has been ordered in
Brazil,
The leaders of the revolutionary
movement are demanding the return
of constitutional government In the
republic.
Vargas assumed the presidency
November 3, 1930, after a military
uprising. Representative assemblies
were dissolved at that time. Last
May President Vargas signed a decree
setting Mn.v, 3933, for election of new
state assemblies.
Man Wbo Refused Throne
Dies a Plain American
Brookline, Mass.—George Fred Wil
liams, seventy, a Boston lawyer, who
might have been king of Albania had
he wished, died in a Brookline nurs
ing home. He had been prominent in
politics and served for a time as
United States minister to Greece and
Montenegro.
It was as a result of his interest
,n the tiny kingdom of Albania that
his diplomatic career came to an end,
and because of lus efforts in behalf
of the country that he was offered a
post in its government that might
have placed him on the throne. He
declined tlie place and returned to the
United States to work toward the re
habilitation of Albania,
Woodrow Wilson appointed Wil
liams minister to Greece, le learned
of a plot against Albanian leaders
and, according to bis own version of
the incident as he later related it,
his undiplomatic and blunt protest
made it necessary for him to leave
the diplomatic service.
Coxey Selected to Head
Farmer-Labor Ticket
Omaha, N’eb.—Members of the exec
utive committee of the Farmer-Labor
party made Mayor Jacob S. Coxey of
Massillon, Ohio, their Pre.sidential
candidate, succeeding Col. Frank E.
Webb of San Francisco and Washing
ton, who was disqualified by the com
mittee.
One Year for Hoaxer Curti*
Flemington, N. J.—John Hughes
Curtis, convicted of hindering cap
ture of the kidnapers of the Lind
bergh baby, was sentenced to one
year in jail and to pay a fine of
$1,000.
Ship Explosion Kills Four
•Berlin,—Fourteen persons, eight of
them women, were badly burned when
a boiler exploded aboard an excur
sion steamer in the River Spree. Four
of the passengers died.
Nurse Fights Kidnaper
and Saves Little Girl
Greeley. Colo.—.Anna Steele, twenty-
year-old Denver girl, saved Virginia
Carol Wlngett, tifteen-months-old
daughter of Walter Wingett. Long’s
Peak council Boy Scout executive,
.Tom being kidnaped.
Mr. and Mrs. Wingett went to a
:ard party, leaving the infant In the
:ure of .Miss Steele, a junior at Colo
rado Teachers college. The girl heard
i noise in the nursery and went to in
vestigate. She was astonished to see
i man taking the baby from her crib.
He had wrapped the infant’s head in a
sheet.
Miss Steele grappled with the in
truder and screamed. After a strug
gle the man dropped the child and
fled through a window.
Floyd E. Thompson of Chicago was
elected grand exalted ruler of the
order of Elks at the annual meeting
of the grand lodge in Birmingham,
Ala.
REPARATIONS TREATY
DEPENDS ON AMERICA
War Debt Slash Necessary to
Ratification.
London. — Foreign Secretary Sir
John Simon and Chancellor of the
Exchequer Neville Chamberlain open
ly admitted in the house of commons
that a secret, written agreement binds
England. France and Italy to make
the Lausanne reparations treaty de
pend on American reduction or can
cellation of debts.
Their admissions came after David
Lloyd George, wartime premier, bit
terly assailed Premier MacDonald for
his silence on the secret pact against
America
Chamberlain implied Europe had
been informed by official Washington
that treatment of debts would cor
respond to Europe’s settlement of
reparations. The $714,000,000 Lau
sanne settlement wrote off reparations
at a cent on the dollar. Similar treat
ment on debts would reduce $11,000,-
000,000 owed America to $110,-
000,000.
Replying to Lloyd George’s bitter
denunciation of Europe's new version
of medieval secret diplomacy, Chan
cellor Chamberlain declared:
"Our position is simple. If can
cellation all around can be achieved,
we cancel. If cancellation Is not pos
sible, we must wait and see what
America may propose to us before we
can decide what arrangement we can
moke.
"It was necessary that the creditor
powers should have an understand
ing on what was going to take place
for an agreement with Germany. If
America had been a participant at
Lausanne, no gentleman’s agreement
would have been necessary.
“All of us believe that, having fol
lowed the advice given us by the
United Statecs in having shown we
could harmonize our differences and
could come to an agreement which
as far as we are concerned Is one
general agreement, America is never
going to refuse to play her part in
the world settlement, and that we
can count on her willing and read.v
co-operation when the proper moment
arrives.”
Admits Killing His Father
Troy, N. Y.—George Fleezer. youth,
has confessed, authorities declared,
that he had beaten his father to death
in their larmhouse after the latter had
refused him money. The body of the
father, Isaac Fieezer, seventy, was
found in a well on the farm.
Cooper Wins Canada Title
Ottawa, Canada.—Harry Cooper, pro
at the Glen Oak club, Chicago, won the
Canadian open golf championship with
290 strokes.
Little Industries Are
Lauded by President
Silver Bay, N. ’f.—President Hoover.
In a message to the second annual
conference on smaller Industries held
here, declared these little units of the
economic system were "vitally im
portant in the human sense,” employ
ing half of the workers of the nation.
The President’s message was read
at the opening of the conference, a
meeting of leaders or representatives
of the smaller Industries of the
tion. The conference is intended to
provide an opportunity for executives
of the smaller plants to hold round
table talks on the problems of (he
industrial units their companies rep
resent.
C. N. Gregory, International
Authority on Law, Is Dead
Washington.—Charles Noble Greg
ory, internationally known authority
on law, died at his home here in his
eighty-first year, Gregory had been
ill since April, A native of Otsego
county. New York, he had been prom
inent in international law besides hav
ing been dean of law colleges at the
University of Wisconsin. Iowa and
George Washington.
HEAVY GAIN SHOWN
IN AMERICAN GRAIN
-OSS in Wheat Is Offset by
Five Other Yields.
Washington.—Bountiful crops of
feeding grains more than offset the
loss in United States wheat produc
tion this year in total volume for the
five leading crops, according to the
report released by the Department of
Agriculture. On the basis of the esti
mates published, total indication for
the five grain crops is 5,306,000,000
bushels, as against 4,793,000,000
raised last year, a gain of 513,000,000
bushels.
Oflicial estimate of the corn crop
is 2,996,000,000 bushels against 2,557,-
000,000 raised last year, but acreage
and condition figures suggest a ma
terially larger crop if average deteri
oration during July and August is not
experienced. The 1930 crop of corn
2,060,000,000 bushels and average
for the preceding five years was 2,025,-
000,00 bushels.
If present condition is approxi
mately maiiitaiued we will harvest
one of the largest corn crops in the
history of this country, the record
being in 1917 when yield was 3,159,-
000,000 bushels. i
Estimate on winter wheat was raised
21,000,000 bushels over figure of a
month ago, to 432,000,000 bushels, due
to favorable weather last month. The
record crop of last year was 787,000,-
OOO bushels and production iu 1930
was 602,000,000. Average for preced
ing five years was 549,000,000. Wint •
wheat area is given as 33,245,000 acres,
compared with 32,277,000 a month ago
and 41,000,000 last year. Condition of
crop at 64.7 per cent was same as in
June. A yield of 13.0 bushels per
acre is suggested.
Durum wheat crop is estimated at
55,000,000 . bushels against 18,395,000
last year and 57,719,000 In 1930. Area
4,141,000 acres against average of
4,932,01X) bushels and condition 84.2
per cent. Tea year average is 70.7
per cent.
Other spring wheat crop was placed
at 250,000,000 bushels against 86,411,-
000 last year and average of 213,000,-
000 bushels. Area is 18,028,000 acre.i
against average of 15,173,000 acres.
Condition of crop 84.2 per cent
against 53.4 a year ago and ten-year
average of 81.3 per cent.
The department estimates oats pro
duction at 1,217,000,000 bushels against
1,112,000,000 last year and 1,278,000,-
000 In 1930. Area Is 41,094,000 acres
against 39,722,00 last year and live-
year average of 41,865,000 acres. Con
dition is 78.1 per cent.
Barley ac -■age Is 13,895,090 acres
against 11,471,000 acres last year, 12.-
662,000 in 1930 and average for pre
ceding live years of 8,911,000 acres.
Condition is given as 81.6 per cent
and indicated crop 312,000,000 bushels
comparing with 199,000,000 last year
and 305,000,000 In 1930.
Production of rye is at 44,300,000
bushels against 33,000,000 Ifise year.
Indicated crop of tame hay is 68,300,-
900 tons, against 64,233,000 yast year.
Canadian government showed a
high wheat crop promise in that coun
try, the condition being given as 99
per cent against 56 per cent a year
ago. It showed 96 per cent in Mani
toba, 96 in Saskatchewan and 105 in
Alberta.
Reconstruction Loans
Will Be Investigated
Washington.—An investigation of
loans by the Reconstruction corpora
tion was ordered by the sena'te.
A resolution to create a senate com
mittee of five members to make the
inquiry was also approved.
The resolution was adopted at the
behest of Senator Couzens (Rep.,
Mich.), Its author. He said under
the law details of the corporation’s
loans are kept secret, adding the in
vestigation should be made to deter
mine whether loans had been granted
"in accordance with the law,” and
were “aiiequately secured."
Red Meetings Banned
in St. Louis After Riot
St. Louis, Mo.—Public gatherings
of Communists in St. Louis are under
police ban following rioting at the
city hall in which four men were
wounded by bullets fired by the police
and more than a score injured by
clubs, bricks and other missiles that
were hurled through the air.
The disturbance Started after a
crowd of approximately 3,900 unem
ployed persons attempted to storm the
city hall to demand relief.
Pu-Yi to Be Emperor
Mukden.—I'u-Yi, ruler of the new
nation of Manchuko by grace of Jap
anese support, is to assume the title
of emperor at a national assembly
within a few weeks. Coronation will
follow.
Tire Manufacturer Diet
Y'ork, Maine.—Charles C. Goodrich,
wealthy tire manufacturer and a mem
ber of the Maine house af represent
atives, died at his home here. He Was
sixty years old.
Fined $5 for Making
More Noise Than Storm
Milwaukee, Wis.—Claps of thunder
haven’t a chance with William Wall-
ser’s whistle. So loudly did he whistle
during a tliunder storm that his neigh
bors complained that he disturbed the
peace and he was fined $5 in court.
History Professor Dies
Madison, Wis.—Carl Russell Fish,
fiftj'-five, professor of American his
tory at the University of Wisconsin
and author of historical subjects, died
of pneumonia. He was well known in
America and abroad.
Turkey in League of Nations
Istanbul.—The foreign minister sent
to Geneva the unanimous acceptance
of the Turkish parliament of an invi
tation to Turkey to join the League
•f Nations.