Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-28
Rockefeller, SChWab and
Young Refuse Invitation
of Senate Group.
VARIETY OF AID PLANS
OUTLINED BY EXPERTS
Secretary Hyde Accepts House
Committee Request to Help in
Studying Proposals.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
An almost unanimous refusal of invi-
tations sent to capitalists end business
leaders to appear before the Senate AZ
riculture committee to present their
views on farm relief was recorded to-
dsy with the announcement by CHAIR
man McNary that John D. Rockefeller
ir.. Charles M. Schwab ana owen u.
Young would not appear.
Only Henry Ford remains to be hearo
from as j. P. Morgan's nablllty 10 az
tend previously was reported.
The House agriculture committee. en-
terinr its second day of farm reliet
hearings. heard a number OF experts
outline a variety of possible methods
for aiding agriculture. -,
The Senate committee heard the bill
of its chairman indorsed by HallVaro
Kloster, who appeared on behalf OF
group of farm loan orgsnizatlonSs s,,, OF
iowa. Nebraska, South Dakota and Wy
onning.
Kloster said he had supported the
McNarv- -Haugen bill containing the
equalization fee. but that be thought
the present McNary bin would give the
needed relief
Canadian Wheat Pool Idea Urged.
Anson Marston of Ames Iowa. presi-
dent of the American Association OF
Land Grant Colleges, told the House IN
ouirers that he favored Federal aid to
continue search for new methods OF
utilizing farm waste. g. w. Connell
secretary of the Minnesota Wheat
Growers Association. proposed an or
ganization patterned after the Ca
IN ~
of wheat under Federal farm board.
The Canadian pool, he said, now owns
1900 elevators and II terminals.
Representative Jones, Democrat, OF
Texas, in questioning Connell, inquired
If he saw any reason why the Farm
Board should not be given the power
to close the commodity markets II 1t
was found advisable.
He said he believed that a stabiliza-
tion corporation could maintain prices
on a higher level without losing money.
THE stabilizatiofl corporation. ne
added, would have on the market ex-
actly the same effect as policeman on
the corner has in inducing law OBJ
servance."
FIorifian Advances Plan.
william II. Marshall, Fort Lauder
dale. Fla. farmer, advocated establish
ment of regional distributing plants for
handling perishable crops. aided by CO.
operative marketing associations, with
a view to eliminating some Of the mid
dlenen and facilitating shipments of
mixed carloads. The plants. he said,
should be equipped for canning and pre-
serving, If products were not immediate
" marketable.
A Federal farm board with broad
powers to regulate production and mar
keting was advocated by S. j. Cotting-
Dealers Association, before the Senate
committee. He said his organization
was opposed to an equalization fee or
any other form of tax and also to the
sterilization agencies unless they were
empowered to deal with the produc-
ton problem.
No farm program. he said, would sue
ceed and, in fact, the farmer would be
ruined unless the Government under
took to curtail production when the
emergency demanded it.
Hyde will Appear.
Acceptance by Secretary Hyde of the
House agriculture committees invita-
tion to appear at its hearing on farm
relief has revived hope among some
members that they may yet be able
TO get a more detailed statement of the
administrator views than President
Hoover thus far has been willing to
advance.
The Secretary. now in Missouri. noti-
fed the committee yesterday, that he
expected to return to Washington about
April / and would be willing to lay
before it any information from his
department which it might want. He
was informed that the committee
planned to conclude its hearing, begun
Yesterday. on April 3. and was asked
TO appear at his convenience before that
date
The House committees desire to hear
from the Secretary was made known to
President Hoover several days ago by
Representative Dickinson, Republican,
Iowa.
Subsequently Chairman McNary of
the Senate committee invited Mr.. Hyde
to appear before his group, which began
its hearing Monday. but he replied
that he had found it necessary to go
to Missouri on personal business.