Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-05

26; France. 10; Japan, %; Argentina,
"a; Italy 80; Cuba, 10; China, %;
Brazil, 40; Chile, 16; Venezuela, n;
Colombia, 81, and Uruguay, "a.
The value of our cotton export was
81 per cent below that of the cor
responding period of 1929, and Al per
cent below the average for the cor
responding periods OF the f1ve years
1925-29.
Automobile export declined dismally,
being 46 per cent below that of the
corresponding period of 1929, and 10
per cent below the average for the
corresponding periods of the five years
1859.
Cotton is our leading export, automo-
biles coming second. Export of gasoline
and naphtha (third in rank OF our
exports) advanced 10 per cent above
that of 1929 and nearly 49 per cent
above the five-year average.
Export of machinery showed subStan-
tial gains as to many items Gin par
| ticular, agricultural machinery and i'm
plements; electrical machinery and
apparatus; power driven Woodworking
machinery; construction machinery.
oil-well machinery, mining and quarry
ing machinery.
The export of agricultural machinery
and implements Fourth in rank Of our
our total eXports) topped that of 1929
by 10 per cent and the five-year average
by 81 per cent, Russia accounting for
most OF the gain. These figures for
machinery are of peculiar significance
With only a few exceptions, agricul-
tural export declined. One exception Is
wheat. export of which was per cent
in value above that of 1929, though 81
per cent below the five-year average
Export Of wheat flour, however, declined
by 8 per cent in comparison with 1929.
Here is something to perpend. In
1927 the United States shipped about
twice as much wheat to Great Britain
as Argentina did. In 1928 Argentina
and the United States shipped about
equal quantities of wheat to Great
Britain. In 1929 the Argentine ship
ment to Great Britain was about twice
| ours.
Joshua Reuben Clark, r., Of Salt Lake
City, formerly UnderSecretary of State.
has been appointed our Ambassador to
Mexico, in succession to Mr.. Morrow.
This month the School Of Medicine
of the University of Pennsylvania will
celebrate the 165th anniversary of its
| foundation. 1t is the oldest medical
school in the country. In manner Of
speaking, it is the lusty offspring of the
| University of Edinburgh. The best re-
membered of the original faculty is the
famous Benjamin Rush
Everett ColSon, now assistant to the
| American financial adviser of the
Haitian government is to be financial
| adviser to the Emperor of AbySSinia,
who is said to cherish for his country
program Of economic development
along American lines.
On September 81, Robert Tyre Jones,
| ir., Of Atlanta, won the national anna
teur golf championship, thus achieving
| the feat unparalleled in golflng history,
and likely to remain unique, of winning
within the same year the British anna
teur and open championships and the
American amateur and open champion
ships This is the fifth time Mr. Jones
has won the American amateur title
He is % years old.
The annual series for the world"
base ball championship opened at Phil
adelphia on October l, the contestants
being the Philadelphia Athletics, cham
pionS Of the American League, and the
st. Louis Cardinals, champions of the
| National League. President Hoover at
tended the opening game, which the
Athletics won, 5 to 2. They also won
| the second, to /.
NOTES.-The League of Nations has
adopted the important convention pro-
viding for financial assistance to victims
of aggression.
Certain rumors have been dispelled
hY the formal appgoVl - TIE HTnnch